Boccioni

American  

[bo-choh-nee, bawt-chaw-nee] / bɒˈtʃoʊ ni, bɔtˈtʃɔ ni /

noun

1. Umberto 1882–1916, Italian painter and sculptor.

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Boccioni British  

/ botˈtʃoni /

noun

1. Umberto (umˈberto). 1882–1916, Italian painter and sculptor: principal theorist of the futurist movement

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Example Sentences

It also features works from leading modernist artists such as Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera, Natalia Goncharova and Umberto Boccioni.

From BBC • Jul. 19, 2024

On the first floor, we stood for a while, looking at the paintings of Umberto Boccioni, a Futurist whom Righetti admires.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 19, 2018

In the show’s earliest paintings by Russolo, Balla, Umberto Boccioni and Gino Severini, the style emerges from a pastiche of Expressionism, Pointillism and its offspring Divisionism, jolted by Cubism.

From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2014

Umberto Boccioni, 1913 Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice Racing along, head down, knees pumping, wheels spinning, covering immense distances at breathtaking speed: how can an artist ever depict a champion cyclist in action?

From The Guardian • May 19, 2012

Boccioni satisfies the test in his sculpture, and therefore we must praise him, whether we like his methods or not.

From The Book of This and That by Lynd, Robert