Pittura
The painting
Detaching themselves completely from traditional painting, the Futurist painters introduced a new dimension of pictorial art. The Futurists observed that when traveling over land—on horseback, by automobile, or by train—plants, houses, and other objects appear to hurl themselves toward us. Nearby objects spin past at great speed, while those farther away move more slowly, forming a dynamic wheel within a horizon framed by mountains, sea, hills, and lakes. This entire frame moves as well, but so slowly that it seems motionless. Beyond it, our eyes still perceive the horizontal continuity of the ground over which we travel.
At aerial speeds, however, both this continuity and the panoramic frame disappear. As the airplane glides, dives, and climbs, it becomes an ideal, hypersensitive observation post suspended anywhere in the infinite. This experience is made even more dynamic by our awareness of motion itself, which transforms the value and rhythm of every minute and every second of visual sensation. Time and space are shattered by the sudden, lightning-like realization that the earth is racing beneath an airplane that seems perfectly still.
Angelo Cacciola Donati
Balestrieri Lionello
Cetona – Siena 1872 – 1958. Lionello Balestrieri nasce a Cetona nel 1872 da una famiglia di umili origini. ...
Barabino Angelo
Tortona 1883 – Milano 1950. Nacque a Tortona il 1° gennaio 1883, da famiglia di origine genovese. A diciasse...
Barbara – Biglieri Olga
Mortara (Pavia) 1915 – Roma 2002. Olga Biglieri Scurto, nata a Mortara cento anni fa, giornalista, aviatrice e art...
Barradas – Rafael Pérez Giménez
(Spanish)Montevideo 1890 – Uruguay 1929. Nació en Montevideo el 4 de enero de 1890, hijo de emigrantes españoles...
Belli Domenico
Roma 1909 – Lavinio (RM) 1983. Si forma come pittore nello studio di Giacomo Balla e aderisce al futurismo nel 19...
Cappa Benedetta
Benedetta Cappa nacque a Roma, seconda di cinque figli, il 14 agosto 1897 da Innocenzo, ufficiale di carriera, piemontes...
Record – Benedetto Enzo
Reggio Calabria 1905 – Roma 1993, è stato un pittore e scrittore italiano.Benedetto, detto Record da Marinetti, si av...
Adrì – Fabbri Adriana
Nata a Ferrara dove conosce il futuro marito e giornalista Giannetto Bisi, trascorre parte della giovinezza a Padova, os...
Bluemner Oscar Florianus
(English)Oscar Bluemner (June 21, 1867 – January 12, 1938), born Friedrich Julius Oskar Blümner and after 1933 known ...
Boccioni Umberto
Figlio di Raffaele, impiegato di prefettura, e di Cecilia Forlani, romagnoli, nacque a Reggio Calabria il 19 ott. 1882. ...
Bomberg David
(English)David Garshen Bomberg (5 December 1890 – 19 August 1957) was a British painter, and one of the Whitechapel Bo...
Bonetti Uberto
Viareggio 1909 – Viareggio 1993, è stato un pittore e disegnatore italiano. Studiò presso l’Accademia di B...
