Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Riot in the Galleria
Image View:
Overall view with cropped frame
Creator:
Umberto Boccioni (Italian painter, 1882-1916)
Location:
repository: Brera Museum (Milan, Lombardy, Italy) 5056
Location Note:
Via Brera 28
GPS:
45.471944 9.188056
Date:
1910 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Futurist; Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
74 cm (height) x 64 cm (width)
Subjects:
cityscape; genre; human figure; Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Milan; shopping arcade
Description:
Boccioni’s meeting with Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in late 1909 or early 1910 led him to Futurism, which was proclaimed as a literary movement in February 1909, and was now reborn as a painting movement. In Riot in the Galleria (painted in Milan), executed in the months immediately after his signature of the Technical Manifesto of Futurist Painting (1910), he utilized, and took to an extreme, the Divisionist technique to study the movements of the crowd and to create unprecedented effects of light and dynamism, accentuated by the use of extremely bright complementary colors. (Source: Brera Pinacoteca [website]; http://pinacotecabre ra.org/en/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-BOCCIONI-RG-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Riot in the Galleria