Futurism Year 7 Task 2 – Artist Information Task 1. Use the same artist that painted the picture that you made a study of. 2. Answer the questions (on the next few slides) in sentences to create an artist study page on your Futurist artist. Umberto Boccioni, ‘Charge of the Lancers’, 1915, oil on newspaper on canvas

Questions Levels 1e – 2e Levels 2d and above 1. What is the artists name? 1. Was the artist part of a 2. Where were they from? group? 3. When did they live? 2. Is their work influenced by the place or time they 4. Does the artwork have a lived? Explain. title? 3. What or whom was the 5. When was it created? artist inspired by? 6. What is the artwork 4. What materials and made from? techniques have they 7. What is the style of the used? artwork? 5. Does it work? Have they 8. What is the artwork achieved their about? intentions? How? EXAMPLE ANSWERS Levels 1e – 2d Levels 2m and above 1. The artists name is Umberto Boccioni. 1. Umberto Boccioni was a founding member of the Futurist Group. The work is influenced by 2. Boccioni was born in Italy and lived and worked there until his death. the new mechanical technology being created 3. Boccioni was born in 1882 and died in 1916. at the time. 4. This piece is called ‘Charge of the Lancers’. Lancers were soldiers mounted on 2. Boccioni lived and worked in Turin, Italy just horseback. before the first World War. His work is 5. It was made in 1915 near the start of the First World war. influenced by the radical social change in early 20th century Europe such as war and 6. Boccioni has used oil paint on newspaper and glued it to a piece of board. revolution. 7. The piece has a Futurist style. 3. The Futurists wished to reject the past and 8. This piece is about the movement of a group of lancers about to attack a trench. embrace the new. In their artwork they tried to ‘embrace a new form of beauty, the beauty of speed’. 4. Boccioni painted this piece which serving with the Italian army in the First World War. He was a trench soldier; it is painted quickly on newspaper, mounted on board. He would use whatever materials he could find in the trench environment. 5. This painting captures the speed, blur and confusion of a cavalry attack. Boccioni shows the horses and their riders in a flurry of angular, repeated paint marks. You cannot see the riders faces as they charge towards the shooting soldiers in the trench. Boccioni was shot and killed shortly afterwards in a similar attack. Umberto Boccioni, ‘Charge of the Lancers’, 1915, oil on newspaper on canvas Extra Task – please write in sentences

1. Add your own views and opinion about the artist and the painting. 2. Do you like it? Why? 3. What do you think the painting is about? Why do you think this? 4. What is the subject and what is going on in the painting? Is it a historical event? 5. Did the artist always paint like this? Are there other similar examples of their work that you can find?