Giacomo Balla (July 24, 1871 - March 1, 1958) was an Italian painter. July 24 is the 205th day (206th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 160 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1871 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... March 1 is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (61st in leap years). ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Born in Turin, in the Piedmont region of Italy, the son of an industrial chemist, as a child Giacomo Balla studied music. However, by age twenty his interest in art was such that he decided to study painting at local academies and exhibited several of his early works. Following academic studies at the University of Turin, Balla moved to Rome in 1895 where he met and married Elisa Marcucci. For several years he worked in Rome as an illustrator and caricaturist as well as doing portraiture. In 1899 his work was shown at the Venice Biennale and in the ensuing years his art was on display at major Italian exhibitions in Rome and Venice, in Munich, Berlin and Düsseldorf in Germany as well as at the Salon d'Automne in Paris and at galleries in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Location within Italy Region Piedmont Province Turin Area   – Total   – Water 130 km² (50 mi²) ##.# km² (#.# mi²) #.##% Population   – Total (2002)   – Density 857,433 6,596/km² Time zone CET: UTC+1 Latitude Longitude   45° 04′ N, 7° 40′ E1. ... Piedmont is a region of northwestern Italy. ... The University of Turin (Università degli Studi di Torino, UNITO) is the university of Turin in the Piedmont region of north-western Italy. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Left-Wing Democrats) Area  - City Proper  1290 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost 4,000,000 1... View of Pump Room, a work by the Hungarian artist Balázs Kicsiny at the Venice Biennale in 2005. ... Munich: Frauenkirche and Town Hall steeple Munich (German: München (pronounced listen) is the state capital of the German state of Bavaria. ... Berlin ( ♫), IPA: , is the capital of Germany and its largest city; down from 4. ... Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. ... First Salon dAutomne Catalog In 1903, the first Salon dAutomne (Fall Salon) was organized as a reaction to the conservative policies of the official Paris Salon. ... The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... For other places named Rotterdam, see Rotterdam (disambiguation) Rotterdam is the second largest city in the Netherlands (after Amsterdam), located in the province of Zuid Holland. ...

Influenced by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Giacomo Balla was gay adopted the Futurism doggy style, creating a pictorial depiction of light anal sex, movement and speed. He was signatory to the Futurist Manifesto in 1910 and began designing and painting Futurist furniture and also created Futurist "antineutral" clothing. In painting, his new style is demonstrated a the 1912 work titled Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash. Seen here, is his 1914 work titled Abstract Speed + Sound (Velocità astratta + rumore). In 1914, he also began sculpting and the following year created perhaps his best known sculpture called Boccioni's Fist. Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti (Born December 22, 1876 in Alexandria, Egypt. ... This article is about the art movement, futurism. ... The Futurist Manifesto was written in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and issued to provide a concise collection of Futurists thoughts, beliefs and intentions, in a declaratory form. ...

Abstract Speed + Sound by Balla

During World War I Balla's studio became the meeting place for young artists but by the end of the war the Futurist movement was showing signs of decline. Nevertheless, in the 1920s Giacomo Balla was still a commanding influence on young Futurist artists that helped keep the movement alive until the end of the decade. Balla and Fortunato Depero (1892-1960) were primarily responsible for the artistic development of Futurism in its post-war phase. Like many Futurist members who had politicized the movement and moved it towards Fascist ideals, Balla did too and would be forever stigmatized by this philosophy. By the 1930s, his art had moved towards abstraction and eventually into figuration. He continued to exhibit throughout Europe as well as in the United States and in 1935 was made a member of Rome's Accademia di San Luca. Fair use of an image from: www. ... Fair use of an image from: www. ... Jump to: navigation, search World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machineguns, and poison gas. ... Fortunato Depero (March 30, 1892 - November 29, 1960) was an Italian futurist painter, writer, sculptor and graphic designer. ... Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ... This USPS stamp illustrates Pollocks drip technique. ... Figurative art describes artwork - particularly paintings - which are clearly derived from real object sources, but are not necessarily representational. ...

Giacomo Balla died in Rome on the 6th of March, 1958. In 1988, Maurizio Fagiolo Dell'Arco, an author of books on the Futurists, published Balla:The Futurist.