Title: States of Mind: The Farewells
Artist: Umberto Boccioni
Artist's Lifespan: 1882-1916
Date: 1911 Location of Origin: Italy
Medium: Oil on canvas
Style: Futurism Genre: Machinery
U
mberto Boccioni is painter, who was one of the manifesto's signers, celebrate
the pulsating dynamism of the modern industrial city. The State of Mind:
Farewells
is one of piece from the States of Mind trilogy of train station scense.
Broccioni
emphasis the rhythm specific to the emotion to it.
This is crowed, exciting chaos of a train station with numbers emblazoned on its font,
is a powerful steam locomative. Line and form are very complexity of the tightly
packed surface are the longer. The fluid rhythms that seem to pull a crowd not metallic
figure or perhaps a single couple moving through space and time from bebeath the
tower down and across the picture.
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