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...lacking only POW! ZIP! BAM! in cartoon balloons to become pop art. And Severini died just this year at the age of 83. Optical art is another trend of the '60s. Yet a flat pattern of particolored isosceles triangles called Iridescent Interpenetration No. 3 by another futurist, Giacomo Balla, and dated 1912, is clearly a harbinger...
...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...
...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 of the painting that is now owned by A. Conger Goodyear, "since 1912, when it was last exhibited here. All these works return for a brief while to please...
Student Council and NSA members will register books for the exchange and coordinate all transactions. Balla Cohen '51 and Betty Heaton '51 will head the staff for the commuters and dormitory residents respectively, and will make special arrangements necessary for collecting books...
Many another Budapest alumnus or graduate student sings in the chorus. Oldest member is Basso Karoly Balla, 44, vice president of a Budapest insurance company. Youngest is Tenor Laszlo Nagypal, 21, a student at the Royal Hungarian Franz Liszt Academy of Music. Thirty-three-year-old Viktor Vaszy directs the chorus. He also directs the Budapest Symphony Orchestra and is known in Hungary as a composer of distinction. He likes to boast of the time the chorus sang Mass with Pope Pius XI during Holy Year (1925). The Pope was so pleased that he gave them a large gold cross...