#futurism

Supposedly Marinetti's Futurist manifesto singled out exactly this kind of quiet, moonlit mood as something painters needed to get over — funny seeing the movement's own future star drawing it a few years earlier.

She died young, in 1924, not long after she'd started moving from paintings like this one into textile and stage design.

They say Boccioni studied under Giacomo Balla in Rome around this time — another future Futurist — and you can see the dabbed, Divisionist brushwork they were both practicing before either of them started smashing forms apart for speed.

Apparently this is from before Boccioni signed onto Futurism in 1910 — a movement that made a point of rejecting quiet domestic scenes just like this one.

This is from years before Boccioni co-signed the Futurist manifesto and started painting industry as speed and noise instead of smoke drifting over a quiet field.

Painted a few years before he gave up on objects altogether and went over to plain shapes on a white ground. The fashion then, from what I've read, was to paint movement instead of things — repeat an arm enough times and you get the motion rather than the man.