Balla’s adorable painting is a direct response to the manifesto — particularly to Boccioni’s insistence that art should stop trying to reproduce fixed moments in the “universal dynamism ...

In 1912, four years before his death during an army training exercise, the Italian Futurist Umberto Boccioni painted a ... dedicated to bringing the dynamism of modern society into art.

It didn't show you the thrust, the flow... Which is precisely what Boccioni endeavoured to do in Dynamism of a Human Body, a drawing-cum-painting in tempera and ink of 1913. Here you see the human ...