futurism

March 9, 2016
Florentine artist Marisa Mori was born 9 March 1900 to Mario Lurini and Edmea Bernini, a direct descendant of the celebrate Renaissance sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

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

February 10, 2016
Luigi Colombo, who went by the Futurist pseudonym Fillia (his mother’s maiden name), died of tuberculosis on 10 February 1936 at only 31 years of age.

January 29, 2016
The first architectural manifesto of Futurism appeared in print on 29 January 1914, in the Roman newspaper Il piccolo giornale d’Italia, with the title “Futurist Architecture Too…and What is It?” (“Anche l’architettura futurista…e che è?”).

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
Futurist painter Gerardo Dottori was born today, 11 November 1884, in Perugia.

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 .