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The City Rises

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Large oil on canvas by Umberto Boccioni (1910). A swirling vortex of horses, workers, and industrial force — a visual manifesto of Futurist energy and the violent optimism of modern urban construction. Boccioni's first major Futurist work. MoMA, New York.

Scholarly Significance

Boccioni's breakthrough monumental Futurist canvas; anchor for Futurism cluster.

Notes

·Boccioni's first major Futurist-programmatic canvas; predecessor works were still Divisionist.
·The technique draws on Divisionism (short color strokes) but dissolves form into dynamic energy.
·Exhibited at the first international Futurist painting show in Paris (1912).
·Boccioni wrote in his letters that the painting took over a year and he destroyed many preparatory versions.
·The red, gold, and blue palette and swirling dynamism influenced subsequent Futurist and Vorticist work.