Unique Forms of Continuity

Boccioni's plastic dynamism, unlike the techniques of other members of the Futurist group, does not depend on an oversimplified optical device (such as the persistence of images on the retina) to suggest a sense of movement by repeating certain combined contours. Experimental physics do not lie at the origin of Boccioni's art, but rather the philosophy of Bergson and hints of Nietzschean vitalism. Boccioni's work seeks to express in heroic terms the artist's state of mind; in a fluid and constantly self-renewing continuity the contents of memory coexist with the fact of sensation - a "synthesis of what one remembers and what one sees", not in a mechanical and accumulative sequence of time, but in an intuitive leap that becomes itself in the act of creation.