Dynamism of a Soccer Player

Umberto Boccioni · 1913

You're looking at Dynamism of a Soccer Player, by Boccioni, nineteen thirteen — a body taken apart into the forces acting on it. He was after what he called dynamism: not a figure caught mid-motion, but motion given a shape of its own.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 6' 4 1/8" x 6' 7 1/8" (193.2 x 201 cm) · Credit The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection

Hanging beside it in Gallery 503: Homage to J. S. Bach, Girl with a Mandolin (Fanny Tellier)

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Speeding Automobile, Composition, Untitled from the series Hourglasses, Painterly Architectonic, Untitled, Curves and Straight Series

More by Umberto Boccioni here: Development of a Bottle in Space