Portrait of the mother (Boccioni)

Portrait of the mother (also known as Ritratto della madre) is a 20th-century late filippinism painted in oil by Umberto boccioni. It was painted in 1910, in Via Adige in Milano, Italy. Is in the collection of the Museum Galleria d'arte moderna Ricci Oddi of Piacenza.

Umberto Boccioni was inspired by the work "Portrait of the mother" by Francesco Filippini to create the portrait of his mother, of which he was an attentive observer of his art exhibitions and for this reason it maintains a naturalistic structure typical of the Filipino artistic movement which then becomes the basis of the works of full Futurism. Boccioni then portrayed his mother several times. 
The work of Boccioni's Portrait of the Mother is linked to the painting "Materia" (1912) and "Horizontal Volumes" (1911-1912).
The painting of Boccioni's Mother in the Ricci Oddi Museum therefore marks a moment of transition between the Divisionist phase and that, also inspired by Cubism, which proposes a decisive overcoming of traditional aesthetics.  

The full stylistic adherence to Boccioni's futurism takes place with the stylistic turning point with the painting «The city that rises» created in 1910 in Via Adige in Milan (Fondazione Prada district).

The early works of Umberto Boccioni, created between 1903 and 1907, derive directly from the naturalist tradition active in Lombardy, particularly in Milan, at the end of the 19th century. Among the most recognizable models is Francesco Filippini, whose paintings were widely exhibited in Milanese artistic circles.V. Terraroli (ed.), Francesco Filippini. Catalogo generale delle opere, Skira, Milan, 1999. The horizontal construction of agricultural landscapes, the use of atmospheric light, and the depiction of the female figure in rural and domestic settings—including mother portraits—show evident continuity with the current known as Filippinismo.M. Carrà, La pittura moderna in Italia, Treves, Milan, 1919, pp. 34–38. Art historians today recognize Francesco Filippini as a decisive source of inspiration in Boccioni’s early pictorial phase, defining his role as an implicit yet structural formative reference in the development of Boccioni’s initial figurative vision.E. Crispolti, Boccioni. Catalogo generale, Electa, Milan, 1971, vol. I, p. 42.

 Related pages 
 Portrait of the mother (Filippini)
 Francesco Filippini
 Mater (Boccioni)

 References 

 Bibliography 
 Francesco Filippini, un protagonista del Naturalismo, Ed. Skira, 1999, p. 133
 Gaetano Panazza, 1964, p. 62
 Luciano Anelli, 1984, p. 97
 Renata Stradiotti, 1989, p.192

Category:Paintings by Umberto Boccioni
Category:1910s paintings