Like many other Futurists, Boccioni was heavily influenced by Cubism but in his painting and sculpture he used the Futurist approach to express dynamism of the human or animal form. However there is a marked difference between his work prior to his acquaintance with Cubism and that which came after. After his contact with Cubism, Boccioni retained his Bergsonian approach so that The Farewells(1911) shows the same couple several times in various time-place views rather than several couples. However Cubism gave him not only a wider painting vocabulary but his concept of pictorial language changed fundamentally and appears to be on an entirely different level of experience. His later works tended to break up the subject figure and shifting the parts within the painting rather than repeating them whole as in The Farewells. In Materia (1912), for example, Boccioni "shatters" the image of his mother in Cubist fashion and merges it with a view of her surroundings as an expression of simultaneity. I knew his bronzes, but not his paintings, check them out: Umberto Boccioni
The Coldest Heart
Nice video animation on a music vid. The Coldest Heart by Bells Will Ring. via drawn
"Heckuva job, Brownie."
"The Federal Emergency Management Agency (fema) was the scapegoat, but the real culprit was the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which bungled the levees that formed the city's man-made defenses and ravaged the wetlands that once formed its natural defenses. Americans were outraged by the government's response, but they still haven't come to grips with the government's responsibility for the catastrophe." via wood s lot
A new day begins
"A fresh attitude starts to happen when we look to see that yesterday was yesterday, and now it is gone; today is today and now it is new. It is like that — every hour, every minute is changing. If we stop observing change, then we stop seeing everything as new." ~ Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
Everything that was old will be new again. Welcome to the blog, version 3.0.