Giacomo Balla, artist and art
Born July 18 1871, Birth Turin, Italy.
Died March 1 1958 deathRome.
Style and technique, exhibitions: Painting, Sculpture Objects, Futurism, Documenta Kassel,Artist biography, artworks, statement, interview, review, exhibition:
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Balla was one of the founding members of the first wave of Futurist painters and was well established as a teacher, with Umberto Boccioni and Gino Severini among pupils…
Born in 1871, Giacomo Balla was the senior member of the first wave of Futurist painters and was well established as a teacher (Umberto Boccioni and Gino Severini were pupils). His early, pre-Futurist period was influenced by the pointilism of Georges Seurat and it was not until 1912 that he joined the Futurist movement.
Work and biography
Works in the MOMA collection
Balla was one of the founding members of the first wave of Futurist painters and was well established as a teacher, with Umberto Boccioni and Gino Severini among pupils. Balla’s participation in the Futurist movement coincided with a dramatic change in his painting style, when in about 1909 he became preoccupied with the pictorial depiction of light, movement and speed as outlined by the Futurists primary objective to depict movement, which they saw as symbolic of their commitment to the dynamic forward thrust of the twentieth century…
