A leading founder of Futurism and Futuristic painting, Giacomo Balla would become one of the most famous artists of this movement along with Umberto Boccioni and Carlo Carra.

Speed + Sound, 1913-1914

Balla painting, Speed of a Motorcycle, 1913

A Child Runs Along a Balcony, 1912

Futurism

Italian Futurism was the first movement of the twentieth century.

Founder FT Marinetti says: " what we want to do is to break down the mysterious doors of the impossible "

It characterises both the movement and stimulating experimentation.

The invention of a new dimension of languages flexible enough to express the range experience open to man in the dawning century of speed mobility and scientific advance.

Futurism is grounded in the complete renewal of human sensibility brought about by great discoveries of science.

Those people who make use the telephone, the train, .....not realise that these various mean of communication on transportation and information have a decisive influence on their psyches.

An ordinary man can in a day's time travel by train from a little dead town of empty squares where the sun, dust amuse themselves in silence, to a great capital city bristling with lights,gestures and street cries.