Antigrazioso

Antigrazioso (The Mother)

The original artwork photographed by Paolo Monti in 1978
Artist Umberto Boccioni
Year 1912 - 1913
Type sculpture
Medium patinated gesso
Dimensions 58 cm × 50 cm (23 in × 20 in); cm 50 x 40 x h58
Location Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna e contemporanea, Rome

Antigrazioso or L'antigrazioso (italian for "The Anti-graceful"), also known as The Mother (La madre), is a patinated gesso sculpture by Umberto Boccioni realized between 1912 and 1913; it is located in the Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna e contemporanea of Rome.[1]

The bust is one of the few surviving examples of Futurist sculptures made by Boccioni in 1912 and 1913 and exhibited at the Galerie 23 in Paris in 1913.

History

The original gesso. Photo by Paolo Monti, 1978.

The original gesso, exhibited since 1938 in the Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna, was acquired in 1950 by the museum from Benedetta Marinetti.[1]

Description

The sculpture represents the futurist decomposition of the face of the artist's beloved mother, also portrayed in the 1913 painting Materia. Boccioni also executed a 1913 painting with the same title, Antigrazioso, but with a different setting.

The sculpture has a similar style of Unique Forms of Continuity in Space.[2]

Bronze cast

In 1950-1951 it was made a bronze casting of the artwork, acquired and exhibited by the Metropolitan Museum of New York.

References

  1. 1 2 "Gli artisti e le opere". www.gnamdrive.beniculturali.it (in Italian). 7 March 2013. Retrieved 2017-03-27.
  2. ↑ Emanuela Calura (2016). Poetiche del Novecento: Lezioni /Appunti didattici (in Italian). Lampi di stampa. pp. 24–. ISBN 978-88-488-1824-7.

See also

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