Giacomo balla's Life Experience

Giacomo balla 187 1 was born in Turin, and is the oldest artist in the Italian futurism movement. His father is a professional photographer. Influenced by his father, Barra became interested in science and technology. However, he basically had no formal art training and only had a short-term painting class. He first appeared as an academic painter and was praised by critics at that time. During his short stay in Paris, he saw Impressionism and Dichotomy, and always showed enthusiastic interest in color and light. After returning to Rome, he visited Sevini and Bochum and told them about his new faith.

Balayu 1895 left Turin for Rome, where he enthusiastically supported the socialist movement.

1900, he traveled to Paris, during which he came into contact with the works of French impressionist and separatist painters. Separatist painters, including Seurat, tried to make impressionist techniques more scientific. They draw a small spot or a small piece of solid color on the canvas for the audience to enjoy at a certain distance, resulting in a "visual mixture" with a sense of tremor. After returning to Rome, Barra began to try this stippling technique.

In Barra's works, he made no secret of his sympathy for socialism. An obvious example is his famous work Laborers' Festival (1903- 1904). From 65438 to 0909, Barra met Philip tommaso marinetti, the founder, poet and theorist of futurism. Futurist painters are mostly unruly. They deny the past art and advocate that artistic practice should reflect modern characteristics and technological progress, such as cars, planes and cinemas. They try their best to express speed and movement in their works.

1909, Barbara exhibited her works for the first time at the Venice Biennale. In the same year, his first futuristic work, Street Lamp: The Work of Light, came out.

19 10, he and other painters signed the declaration of futuristic painting. Members of this genre also include umberto Bochuni and Gino severini, who have frequented Barra's studio since about 190 1.

Futurist painters use the movements created in oil paintings and sculptures to reflect the vitality of modern times. In order to achieve this goal, Barra looked for sources of inspiration everywhere. Cubism is one of the goals. He appreciated the idea of cubism, abandoned the traditional single perspective, changed his thinking, and looked at an object from multiple angles at the same time. The works of photographers Etienne-Jules Mare and Anton Giulio Bragaglia also greatly inspired Barra. The two photographers tried to show the movement of objects with the skills of exposure time and exposure times. During the experiment, they photographed people or animals in motion continuously or at intervals, and the final images were synthesized on the negative to highlight the impression of motion. Barra's reaction to this is prominently reflected in his work The Power of a Dog on a leash (19 12). The dog's limbs and tail vividly show this intense movement.

At the end of 19 13, Bala's creation becomes more and more graphic and geometric. In his series "The Speed of Abstraction" (1912-1914), the theme has become abstract beyond recognition. Barra tries to show the process of movement, not just to explain a concrete image of the physical world from a single angle at a fixed moment. Among the five signatories of the Manifesto of Futurism Painting, he is the only one who did not attend the Paris exhibition. The significance of his real activism is after watching Sevini's painting "The Expanding Sphere in Space".

19 14 After the outbreak of World War I, Bala's political stance turned to support militarism. Although he was too old to serve, he enthusiastically supported Italy's participation in the war. After the war, he worked in the field of theater and fashion design for several years. 1929, he showed his talents again in the second wave of futurism and was valued by marinetti again. However, in the late 1930s, Barra turned to the creation of portraits and urban landscapes, and supported fascism in World War II. Until his death in 1958.