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Boccioni Umberto

Antigrazioso, portrait of his mother

Such a conception led immediately to the abolition of traditional perspective, whether Brunelleschian or aerial, to the breaking up and reconstitution of outlines, to the continuous fusion and splitting of forms, which incessantly overlap, detach themselves and interpenetrate. Simultaneity, the basic concept of intuitionist thought, which at a stroke went beyond the physical concept of time and space, is the outcome of the identity between thought and action, between reality and its image in the mind. However, the transposition of the fundamental concepts of Futurism from painting to sculpture sometimes reveals naturalistic residues not wholly resolved into plastic images.

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Bruno Balestrini (photograph), “Antigrazioso, portrait of his mother”, work by Boccioni Umberto, Modern Sculpture, Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna. Bruno Balestrini Photographic Archive, https://brunobalestrini.org/cita/sch00026/. Accessed [date accessed].

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