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Giacomo Balla

Giacomo Balla was an Italian artist born on July 18, 1871. Balla contributed to the Futurist movement and died on March 1, 1958. Get notified when Giacomo Balla's biography is complete:

Umberto Boccioni

Why can’t I stop painting my mother?

1882-1916

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

A poet creates a church of speed and violence

1876-1944

Giorgio de Chirico

Enchanted space in the city of Nietzsche

1888-1978

1801 2000

Artist turns modernism into equal rights activism

Anne Goldthwaite

Art as prophesy

Maurice Denis Giacomo Balla

Hard-smoking woman documents Canada's native people

Emily Carr

Non-competitive art for the literati, gay and polyglot

Florine Stettheimer

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Giacomo Balla

Street Light

Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash

Speeding Automobile

Paths of Movement + Dynamic Sequences

Abstract Speed + Sound

Sculptural Construction of Noise and Speed

Spring