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Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916), Dynamism of a Soccer Player (Dinamismo di un footballer, 1913, Italian. Oil on canvas. 193.2 x 201 cm. Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (http://www.moma.org); licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, New York, NY; the Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection.

Not long after Picasso and Braque had shocked Paris with a radically new style of painting christened Cubism, for the fragmented forms that critics saw as "little cubes," another group of artists, this time in Italy, was formulating an even more radical concept: Futurism. The movement was originally literary, but it was soon adopted officially by the visual artists and applied to painting, sculpture, photography, even architecture. If Cubism was the artist's attempt to see and portray all sides of an object simultaneously, that is, to portray not only those surfaces immediately visible to the artist, but also those not visible unless . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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