futurism

July 29, 2016
The Futurist poet and painter Francesco Cangiullo died on this day, 29 July 1977.

May 12, 2016
Happy Birthday to Italian Modernist artist Mario Sironi , who was born on this day, May 12 1885 in Sassari , Sardinia.

April 13, 2016
Carlo Carrà died 13 April 1966 in Milan.

March 24, 2016
A hundred years after the death of Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916) Milan celebrates the famous Futurist artist with at least two new events: An exhibition of the artist’s oeuvre titled “ Umberto Boccioni: Genio e memoria ,” just opened yesterday, March 23, at the Museo del Novecento – Palazzo Reale .

March 1, 2016
Futurist painter Giacomo Balla died 1 March 1958 in Rome.

January 13, 2016
For fans of Futurism: Critic Holland Cotter of the New York Times reviewed today an exhibition of Italian modernist art, entitled “Painting in Italy 1910s-1950s: Futurism, Abstraction, Concrete Art,” on display at the Sperone Westwater Gallery in New York.

December 20, 2015
Futurist artist Nikolay Diulgheroff was Born in Kyustendil, Bulgaria on 20 December 1901.

November 24, 2015
500 (at least): The number of characters included in Futurist Filippo Tommasi Marinetti ’s parole in libertà, or “words in freedom,” composition entitled After the Marne, Joffre Visited the Front by Car , originally published in 1915.

November 11, 2015
Jennifer S. Griffiths , winner of a 2015 IAS Travel Grant , used her award to present her paper, “ Savage Beauty : A Futurist Legacy of Self-Design ” at the 103rd Annual Conference of the College Art Association (CAA) in 2015 .

September 24, 2015
Aroldo Bonzagni , born on this day in 1887, was a spirited painter of the Italian Belle Epoque .