Woman's Head

1907

Moves to Milan

In 1907 Boccioni settled in Milan, in the artists’ quarter of Corvetto, where he got to know the representatives of Futurism.

1907 · 工作地

Padua

1907年4月–1907年8月 · 工作地

Venice

early 1910

Meets Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

In early 1910 Boccioni met Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who had published his Manifesto of Futurism the year before.

11 February 1910

Signs the “Manifesto of Futurist Painters”

On 11 February 1910 Boccioni signed the Manifesto of Futurist Painters together with Giacomo Balla, Carlo Carrà, Luigi Russolo and Gino Severini.

1911

“The City Rises” on show in Milan

In May 1911 “The City Rises” went on show in Milan: a huge canvas, 2 by 3 metres, on which Boccioni had worked for nearly a year, attempting, as he wrote to a friend, “a great synthesis of labor, light and movement”. It attracted numerous reviews, mostly admiring.