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Synthesis of human dynamism - Umberto Boccioni - 1913 (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 months ago by merde@sh.itjust.works to c/artporn@piefed.social

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

Looks like a mmorpg character decked out in endgame raid gear.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Could this be properly called "Cubist sculpture?"

Very cool.

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Boccioni was a futurist, rather than a cubist.

The Futurists admired speed, technology, youth and violence, the car, the airplane and the industrial city, all that represented the technological triumph of humanity over nature, and they were passionate nationalists. They repudiated the cult of the past and all imitation, praised originality "however daring, however violent," bore proudly "the smear of madness," dismissed art critics as useless, rebelled against harmony and good taste, swept away all the themes and subjects of all previous art, and glorified science.

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[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 2 points 4 months ago

Wow, okay. I was just earlier trying to wrap my head around the differences between Impressionism and Symbolism, and now this... Futurism and Cubism being distinctly different movements.

Btw, I'd not seen before most of the works on the WP page. Incredible stuff...