Futurism/Giacomo Balla

Question 1

Balla’s birth and death years

Answer 1

1871-1958

Turin-Rome

Question 2

Balla’s early years

Answer 2

Son of photographer.
Studied and quit music
Worked at lithography shop

Question 3

Futurist keywords

Answer 3

Lines of force, technology, speed, dynamism, movement, violence

Question 4

Balla’s Futurist Flowers

Answer 4

Series of wood sculptures created for Balla’s own house in 1920s
House open to public. Wanted to create “artificial garden of flowers…to evoke synthetic images of natural vegetation”

Question 5

Hirshhorn’s Futurist Flowers

Answer 5

A posthumous reconstruction authorized by Balla’s gallerist and family.

Balla intended to have the flowers manufactured en masse