Umberto Boccioni
1882–1916 · Futurism · 6 works
Umberto Boccioni was born in Reggio Calabria in 1882. In Rome he learned from Giacomo Balla to paint in small touches of color. In Milan he met the poet Marinetti and helped write the Futurist painters’ manifestos of 1910. He turned to sculpture in 1912, joined the army in 1915 and died after an accident in cavalry training in 1916.
6 works · 1911–1915
Kazimir Malevich
A Peasant Woman Goes for Water, 1913
