Umberto boccioni brief biography of mark

Italian painter and sculptor (1882–1916)

Umberto Boccioni (,^[1][2][3]Italian:[umˈbɛrtobotˈtʃoːni]; 19 October 1882 – 17 August 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.^[4] His works are held by many public art museums, and in 1988 the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City organized a major retrospective of 100 pieces.^[5]

Biography

Umberto Boccioni was born on 19 October 1882 in Reggio Calabria.

His father was a minor government employee, originally from the Romagna region in the north, and his job included frequent reassignments throughout Italy. The family soon relocated further north, and Umberto and his older sister Amelia grew up in Forlì (Emil Umberto Boccioni Biography – Umberto Boccioni on artnet CYHA