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...Burn the Museums!" Inspired by the Marinetti manifesto, a second appeared the next year signed by the painters Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Luigi Russolo, Gino Severini and Giacomo Balla-futurism's big five. Among other things, it declared that THE NAME OF "MAD MAN" WITH WHICH IT IS ATTEMPTED TO GAG ALL INNOVATORS SHOULD BE LOOKED UPON AS A TITLE OF HONOR. The five themselves sounded a bit mad with anti-tradition slogans of "Burn the museums!" and "Drain the canals of Venice!" But their underlying purpose could not have been more serious. "We choose to concentrate...
Benches & Dreams. When three of the manifesto signers-Umberto Boccioni, Luigi Russolo and Carlo Carra-held a "Futurist Evening" in Turin, they set off a riot. In Bologna, Carra was nearly killed when an exasperated antifuturist hurled a bench at him, and in Treviso the three painters had to be rescued by the police from a mob. But the searing colors and frenzied designs of the futurists had their purpose: to depict not the surface world but the latent powers asleep within...
Force & Humor. None were received with greater interest than the paintings of the rebellious futurists of 1910. Boccioni's famous States of Mind: the Farewells (see color), owned by Nelson Rockefeller, is a cascade of form that suggests a world about to be overwhelmed by a snorting, blazing force that cannot be named. But of all the works in the exhibit, the one most affectionately greeted was Leash in Motion, by Boccioni's great teacher and fellow futurist, Giacomo Balla, master of both movement and humor. "We had not seen it," sighed Rome's Momento-Sera...
...Both Boccioni and the Futurist movement died in World War I, but not the idea of breaking with the musty past. That persisted even during the Fascist passion for neoclassicism. Last week, visitors at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art were getting their first good look at what the Italians had been up to all those years...
Foreshadowings. The exhibition went back to Futurists like Boccioni, included two of his more famous contemporaries who had followed highly individual paths of their own. One of them, Giorgio de Chirico (who has since become a crusty academician-TIME, May 16), was represented by some of his striking early work foreshadowing the Surrealists. The other was Amedeo Modigliani, a much-loved, short-lived alcoholic who was at his best painting tender nudes and portraits based on African sculpture...