Giacomo Balla

Person · Open Library

Born

1871

Died

1958

Works

33

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Italy

Active from

1871-07-18

Active to

1958-03-01

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1,052

Total plays

4,569

Born in Turin, in the Piedmont region of Italy, the son of an industrial chemist, as a child Giacomo Balla studied music. At 9, when his father died, he gave up music and began working in a lithograph print shop. By age twenty his interest in art was such that he decided to study painting at local academies and exhibited several of his early works. Following academic studies at the University of Turin, Balla moved to Rome in 1895 where he met and married Elisa Marcucci. <a href="https://www.las

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The Internet of Things: A survey

   · 2010 · cited 11,434x

2. THE MIRROR-NEURON SYSTEM

   · 2004 · cited 5,805x

3. The Shared Socioeconomic Pathways and their energy, land use, and greenhouse gas emissions implications: An overview

   · 2017 · cited 5,557x

4. Epidemiology, Patterns of Care, and Mortality for Patients With Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Intensive Care Units in 50 Countries

   · 2016 · cited 4,788x

5. Baseline Characteristics and Outcomes of 1591 Patients Infected With SARS-CoV-2 Admitted to ICUs of the Lombardy Region, Italy

   · 2020 · cited 4,272x

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Quotes

• “In the evening I study a fair.. ..if you could see the pomp and luxury of the merry-go-round and the stands and booths. Everything is decorated in Baroque-style, all gold and silver; there are mirrors, fabrics, and electric lightning. By night the whole thing is fantastic and rowdy. First of all I shall make a small picture and some drawings for illustrations.”
• “It will interest artists because, in it, I have made a special study of the way of walking of this girl, and, in fact, I have succeeded in giving the illusion that she is in the process of moving forward.”
• “Villages and valleys pass by [Balla viewed during his train voyage to Düsseldorf in July 1912] and with my friend the binoculars [field glasses] I stare into the closest windows; semi-undressed people who wash themselves, bedding on balconies, clean almost empty rooms, a stupendous white shoulder of a women who, with a nude arm opens a door and goes inside.”
• “They [ Boccioni and Severini ] did not want anything to do with me in Paris and they were right: they have gone much further than I, but I will work and I too will progress.”
• “WE MUST DESTROY ALL PASSÉIST CLOTHES, and everything about them which is tight-fitting, colourless, funereal, decadent, boring and unhygienic. As far as materials are concerned, we must abolish: wishywashy, pretty-pretty, gloomy, and neutral colours, along with patterns composed of lines, checks and spots.”
• “WE MUST INVENT FUTURIST CLOTHES, hap-hap-hap-hap-happy clothes, daring clothes with brilliant colours and dynamic lines. They must be simple, and above all they must be made to last for a short time only in order to encourage industrial activity and to provide constant and novel enjoyment for our bodies.”

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Key facts

Born

Giacomo Joseph Balla , ( 1871-07-18 ) 18 July 1871, Turin , Italy

Died

1 March 1958 (1958-03-01) (aged 86), Rome , Italy

Known for

Painting

Movement

Futurism

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