Giacomo Balla

Sources: http://www.giacomo-balla.com


Born in 1871, Giacomo was one of the few artists that made a telling impact and impression on futurism. His first telling impact on futurism, was to depict the aspects of time, space and speed through the showcase of paint. Around 1914, he moved on to try and show movement and light in his pieces, but didn't really master it and ended up verging closer to total abstraction.
'Dinamismo di un cane al guinzaglio' (1912)
As you can see from the painting above, he enjoyed trying to represent movement in a snapshot. Very well delivered as shown in this piece. As this type of Art had not really been created before it was fresh. He wanted to test the original idea of a traditional painting which is really solid and picture like. I think this is why futurism was such a vital era in the Art industry.


Hand of the violinist 1912       Plastic construction of noise and speed 1915


I think that Balla portrayed his work well and it was easy to understand the concept of his art. I prefer his abstract illusion work of time, Speed and strength because I think it is quite hard for somebody to show this concept on paper.