11/14/2022 0 Comments Intensity art![]() Sotheby’s (New York) featured two of the best of the six at its November 2013 sale. Six were auctioned in the United States, with the remainder of the sales in Europe, many in Italy. However, more than 30 works of art by Balla have appeared at auction in the last year, most of them works on paper along with a few sculptures and an oil on canvas. Most remain in Italy in museums and private collections. The exhibit will hopefully serve to awaken the interest of collectors in a genre that tends to be overlooked in the annals of Modern Art in favor of those other isms-Cubism, Dadaism and Surrealism.įuturist paintings are often hard to come by at auction in part by a 1939 law passed in Italy prohibiting the export of artworks more than 50 years old without permission of the government. The catalog’s comprehensive overview includes lavish color plates and essays by close to 30 authors covering all aspects of the movement: architecture, design, ceramics, fashion, film, photography, advertising, free-form poetry, publications, music, theater and performance. Aptly titled “Italian Futurism, Reconstructing the Universe,” the exhibit and accompanying catalogue follows 35 years of the Futurist’s evolving work. The Guggenheim Museum hosted the first major exhibition of the Futurists in the United States earlier this year and featured more than 300 works executed between 19. $6,500 Photo courtesy Thomaston Place Auction Galleries In silvered panel frame, matted and glazed. Severini, 1959,” titled verso, ink, watercolor and marker on paper. Gino Severini (French/Italian, 1883-1966) “Al Dottore Mario Giroldini,” signed lower left “G. Balla (1871-1958) continued to experiment to convey speed and light in his 1914 canvas, Mercury Passing Before the Sun, inspired by his observation of a partial eclipse of the sun caused by the planet Mercury, which occurred on November 7, 1914. On first impression, Giacomo Balla’s Paths of Movement and Dynamic Sequences (1913) and Speeding Car (1913), could be viewed as Cubist, showing fragmented and split lines to portray speed, dynamic spiral lines to show the fervor of commotion and serpentine lines to convey energy Balla later referred to them as “lines in progress,” and in doing so, stepped beyond the aim of Cubism. To transform this Modern ideology of aggression and motion into a visual art form, the Futurists borrowed from the Cubists. He was a writer, not a visual artist, but Futurism’s visual artists are commanding at least as much interest today as the writings of Marinetti. He called for the destruction of all academies but was appointed by Mussolini’s regime to Italy’s cultural academy. An ardent Italian nationalist, Marinetti first published “The Futurist Manifesto” in 1909 in the pages of a French newspaper. Many ironies accompanied the rise of Futurism. ![]()
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