Boccioni's Technical Manifesto

Image via Wikipedia“The gesture which we would reproduce on canvas shall no longer be a fixed moment in universal dynamism. It shall simply be the dynamic sensation itself (made eternal).

Indeed, all things move, all things run, all things are rapidly changing.

A profile is never motionless before our eyes, but it constantly appears and disappears. On account of the persistency of an image upon the retina, moving objects constantly multiply themselves; their form changes like rapid vibrations in their mad career. Thus a running horse has not four legs, but twenty, and thei movements are triangular.” – Umberto Boccioni, in Chipp (Ed), Theories of Modern Art.

The painting is Boccioni's Dynamism of a Soccer Player.

Cubism - Seeing The Whole Picture

Image via Wikipedia“I felt dissatisfied with traditional perspective. Merely a mechanical  process, the perspective never conveys things in full. It starts from one viewpoint and never gets away from it. But the viewpoint is quite unimportant. It is as though someone were to draw profiles all his life, leading people to think a man only had one eye.” – Georges Braque, in Friedenthal, Letters Of Great Artists

The painting is Braque’s Violin And Candlestick.

What Is Cubism ?

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“ The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of a writer. Today, scientists no longer limit themselves to the three dimensions of Euclid. The painters have been led quite naturally, one might say by intuition, to preoccupy themselves with the new possibilities of spatial measurement which, in the language of modern studios are designated by the term: the fourth dimension.” – Guillaume Appolinaire, The Cubist Painters.

The painting is The Girl In A Pink Cap by Xesco, you can see more of his work here at his website.