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Giacomo Balla - Movement Pictures: Giacomo Balla was an Italian painter and a key proponent of the Futurism art movement.

Giacomo Balla - Movement Pictures: Explore Giacomo Balla through making!

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    Discover Movement Pictures with our worksheet and how to create light, movement and speed in paintings.

     

    Try making your own Giacomo Balla artwork through the process of Movement Pictures. Movement Pictures use visual techniques, such as color, line, shape and composition, to create an illusion of motion or dynamism in a two-dimensional artwork. Movement can be used to create intense emotion or suggest the passing of time within a work.

  • Portrait of Giacomo Balla with red movement drawing.

    Movement Pictures

    Create your own feeling of movement using geometric shapes and charcoal. 

     

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  • Artworks in the collection

    See Giacomo Balla artworks in the collection
    • Brightly coloured oil paint and collaged abstract painting of a spiral and interlocking patterns in black, yellow, orange, blue and red.
      Giacomo Balla, La Guerra, 1916

  • Learn more about Giacomo Balla
    • Brightly coloured oil paint and collaged abstract painting of a spiral and interlocking patterns in black, yellow, orange, blue and red. The title translates to War.
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      Giacomo Balla

      1871 - 1958 Read more

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