Umberto Boccioni

Collection title

FIGU : Album di persone notevoli

ID

RAI00256

Source

RAI (IT)

First broadcast date

11/29/2010

Production year

2010

Abstract

Portrait of the painter and sculptor Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916), one of the main artists of the Futurism, an artistic and literary avant-garde movement. He was born in Reggio Calabria, studied in Rome and visited Paris, Russia and other european places. In Milan, in 1907, he met the Futurists, including the famous poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti with whom he wrote the "Manifesto of Futurist Painters" in 1910. The documentary also describes his social behaviour, being an agitator and an interventionist for the war. At the outbreak of the First World War, he enroled and died in 1916 in an accidental fall from his horse during a military exercise in Chievo, near Verona. The documentary also comments and analyses his art.

Type

video

Production companies

• RAI - Own production

Broadcaster

RAI - RAI Tre

Audiovisual form

Interview

Personalities

• Boccioni Umberto

Primary theme

Sculpture

Secondary themes

• Art, Culture and Knowledge / Fine arts / Painting

Period of events

• From 1900 to 1925

Map locations

• Italy - Eastern North - Milan

Original language

Italian

Media running time

5m29