Technical Manifesto of Futurist Sculpture Umberto Boccioni In his writings, Boccioni claims that you cannot separate a subject from its surroundings, that artists must move beyond the influence of classical styles to be successful and that movement must be shown without trajectory. Only by achieving these things, he believes, can art be truly valid and not, as he says, a "lamentable spectacle of barbarism and lumpishness" Boccioni says: "no one can deny any longer that …showed first 75 words of 648 total…

…showed last 75 words of 648 total…mes, heavy handed at the very least. In fact, this writing was intended to be a point-by-point breakdown of his work to prove that he was wrong. Instead, I came to see what he was actually saying, rather than being blinded by his delivery. While we should not turn our backs on our history, it is important to move forward, only by doing so will we remain the vibrant and creative people we have become.