Boccioni, A Response to the Technical Manifesto of Futurist Sculpture

Technical Manifesto of Futurist Sculpture
Umberto Boccioni
In his writings, Boccioni claims that you cannot separate a subject from its surroundings, that artists must move beyond the influence of classical styles to be successful and that movement must be shown without trajectory. Only by achieving these things, he believes, can art be truly valid and not, as he says, a "lamentable spectacle of barbarism and lumpishness"
Boccioni says: "no one can deny any longer that one object continues at the point another begins, and that everything surrounding our body (bottle, automobile, house, tree, street) intersects it and divides it into sections by forming an arabesque of curves and straight lines." While this may be true, it does not always make for good art. When your canvas or sculptural field becomes too cluttered, the importance of the main subject is lost. …