Giacomo Balla

Abstract Forms in Movement

Giacomo Balla's original silkscreen, "Abstract Forms in Movementt" is printed upon thick wove paper and with wide, full margins as published in Rome for "Arte Astratta Italiana" in 1955 in an edition of one hundred s and stamped 'Balla' in the lower margin. "Abstract Forms in Movementt" is a fine, original example of the influential movement known as Futurism art created by the 20th century Italian artist, Giacomo Balla, one of the great masters of the twentieth century.

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Title:	Abstract Forms in Movement
Artist:	Balla, Giacomo (Turin, 1871 - Rome, 1957)
Date:	1955
Medium:	Original Silk-Screen
Note:	Giacomo Balla: stands at the centre of twentieth century Italian art and of the influential movement known as Futurism. He studied art at the Albertina Academy in Turin and then worked briefly as an apprentice in the studio of Bernardi. Giacomo Balla moved to Rome in 1893 and at the turn of the century went to Paris. He returned to Rome in 1901 and began exhibiting his art there in the following year.
	During this time, Giacomo Balla's art aroused much controversy throughout Italy. Many avant-guarde artists, however, sought his instruction and two of his most famous students from this decade included Gino Severini and Umberto Boccioni. Their association, along with that of Carra and Russolo, led to the famous 1910 creation of the Futurist Manifesto.
	Although relatively short lived, the influence of Italian Futurism upon the development of modern art was huge. Briefly, Futurism extolled the dynamism of the machine age. The art of Giacomo Balla and other Futurists delineated the poetry of speed, power and (most importantly) movement. These elements are clearly seen in Balla's later art, such as, Abstract Forms in Movement.
	Michel Seuphor writes, "Balla is beyond a doubt the most resolutely abstract of all the Futurist painters. He is moreover the only one who has remained faithful to abstract art." * Abstract Forms in Movement is a brilliant examination of both abstraction and Futurism from the hand of this most famous modern master.
	This original silk-screen was commissioned for a 1955 artist's portfolio entitled, "Arte Astratta Italiana". Altogether twelve Italian artists contributed a silk-screen. These included Giacomo Balla and Gino Severini, as well as younger artists such as Mario Radice, Achille Perilli, Bruno Munari and Michelangelo Conte. Each silk-screen was printed on thick wove paper and limited to a sole edition of one hundred s. This particular was imported to Paris and bears the customs seal, 'Douanes Francaises', on the verso.
Reference:	* Michel Seuphor, Dictionary of Abstract Painting, New York, Tudor Publishing, 1957, pp. 125 & 126.
Edition:	Limited edition of one hundred s, numbered 34/100.
Source:	Portfolio Arte Astratta Italiana
Size:	16 X 13 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Condition:	Printed upon thick wove paper and with wide, full margins as published in Rome for "Arte Astratta Italiana". Numbered '34/100' and stamped 'Balla' in the lower margin. It is a finely printed and in excellent condition throughout. This original silk-screen represents a prime example of the art of Giacomo Balla, one of the great masters of the twentieth century.
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