Word: boccioni
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italian artists who composed that manifesto in 1910 called themselves "Futurists" and thought they had hit upon the makings of a modern renaissance. One of the best, Umberto Boccioni, sculptured a figure that aptly symbolized their program: a striding man transformed into a flamelike tangle of whipping air currents...
...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...