The bottom is supported by large rectangular blocks and above these bases rise two thick elements that jut backwards.
The bottom is supported by large rectangular blocks and above these bases rise two thick elements that jut backwards. One of eleven plaster pieces created by the artist during his stay in Milan, it wasn't cast in bronze until 1949: thirty-three years after its artist had passed on. The top left shoulder swoops down into the torso forming a concave shape, while the face has been replaced by an opening that sticks out as a cross shape. Created after two years of studying human musculature, it was the artist's goal to render, "not the construction of the body, but the construction of the action of the body." Ostensibly a sculpture capturing the motion of a man stepping forward, for ten points identify this outstanding example of Futurist sculpture, the masterpiece of Umberto Boccioni.
The bottom is supported by large rectangular blocks and above these bases rise two thick elements that jut backwards.
{Unique Forms of Continuity in Space}