Umberto Boccioni (1882 - 1916) was an influential Italian painter and sculptor. He helped shape the revolutionary aesthetic of the Futurism movement as one of its principal figures. Despite his short life, his approach to the dynamism of form and the deconstruction of solid mass guided artists long after his death. He was one of many artists who died in the Great War - although in his case it was not by enemy action; he was thrown from his horse during a cavalry training exercise and was trampled to death. The self portrait shown above was created in 1905.
The Strengths of a Street (1911)
Materia (1912)
Dimensional shapes of a horse (1913)
Composer Ferruccio Busoni (1916)
