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Biography |
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1871 |
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Born July 18 in Turin |
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1893 |
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Began work as a lithographer, but moved to Rome |
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1900 |
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Spent nine months in Paris |
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1910 |
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Wrote the 'Manifesto dei pittori futuristi' and the 'Manifesto tecnico della pittura futurista' together with U. Boccioni, C. Carrą, G. Severini and L. Russolo |
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1910 |
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Began designing and painting Futurist furniture and also created Futurist "antineutral" clothing |
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1913 |
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Began signing his pictures 'Futur Balla' |
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1914 |
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Began sculpting and the following year created perhaps his best known sculpture called Boccioni's Fist |
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1913 - 1916 |
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Painted pictures that approached pure abstraction |
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1930 |
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Started to gradually move away from Futurism |
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1935 |
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Made a member of Rome's Accademia di San Luca |
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1937 |
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Returned to traditional representational art and the veristic representation of themes from his youth |
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1958 |
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Died March 1 in Rome |
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