Riot at the gallery by Umberto Boccioni
“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”.
This sentence belongs to the 1910 Manifesto of Futurist painters which was written also by Boccioni himself, and it is the basic text that allows us to understand his work.
In his paintings Boccioni depicted the movement, the ferment of life, and the emotions of modernity.
In this post I’m talking about Riot at the Gallery, a painting representing all the energy and movement of a fight in front of a Café in Milan.