Giacomo Balla’s Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash does not really use vibrant colors but real colors to capture the movement a dog running. Balla used this technique to compete with the camera. Balla also showed the leash moving back and forth rapidly as if it were actually taken on film. Balla also showed the feet of a human running with the dog. The picture is in black, brown, and white so that it you can focus on the blur more also the background looks as if it is moving to show which direction the dog is moving. Balla uses lines, colors, and geometry to focus onto the dog.

Balla, Giacomo. Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash
Art Cited: Mark Harden

Astract Speed+ Sound

Giacomo Balla’s Abstract Speed + Sound is a revolutionary piece; it was painted to represent the atmosphere of a landscape when car passes through it. All of the crisscross lines represent the sound. Balla uses the colors to represent the mixture of the landscape and the air around it. The many represent the cars rippling affect on the atmosphere and landscape. Balla’s Abstract Speed + Sound uses dark colors and vibrant colors to make the landscape and atmosphere standout.

Work Cited: Flint, Lucy. "Guggenheim Museum." Guggenheim Museum - The Collection. 29 Oct. 2008 http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_work_md_11_1.html
Art Cited: "20th Century Art Spring 04." 20th Century Art Spring 04. 30 Oct. 2008
http://www.earlham.edu/~vanbma/20th%20century/images/dayten04.htm

Futurism

Futurism is an art genre to celebrate and compete with the age of the machines. Futurism is a technique in which painters attempt to paint and capture motion as cameras do. It started in Italy in the 20th century; it became a big phenomenon in Italy. Futurism was founded by Fillipo Tommaso Marinetti a very famous Italian writer. Futurist greatly admired speed, technology, violence, the plane, the industrial city and the rise of the machine. Futurism was just of paintings it was also of sculpting, graphic designing, music, fashion, films, and many others.
The painting and sculpting of futurism started in Italy when Marinetti met with Giacomo Balla and Gino Severini, and with the help of Boccioni, Carrà and Russolo they issued the Manifesto of the Futurist Painters. A lot of futurism art is of movement, life experiences, violence, and the development of cities. Futurist artist also sculpted many pieces such as Umberto Boccioni’s Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, which was created 1913. This sculpture consists of movable parts that make sounds.
There are many different types of futurism such as Cubo Futurism, Cubo- Futurism originated in Russia from Russian Futurists influenced by cubism. Futurism Music was made to compete with the age of the machine. Futurism was at its peak during World War I but after it ended Futurism started to decline greatly.

Wikipedia. Futurism. 28 Oct. 2008. 26 Oct. 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism

Giacomo Balla

Giacomo Balla was a famous Italian painter who was born July 18, 1871. At first he study music but later he had become interested in art. When Giacomo Balla moved to Rome in 1895 for further studies where he married Elisa Marcucci. Before futurism he was an illustrator and caricaturist, in 1899 his work portrayed in various places such as Rome, Venice, Berlin, Germany, and Paris. Later Giacom Balla was influenced in the style of futurism by Fillipo Tommaso Marinetti. Later on Marinetti, Balla, and other futurist artist issued the manifesto of futurism.
Giacomo Balla tried to portray how the world was in constant movement in some of pieces like Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash he used it to portray how a dog’s legs are constantly moving like the world.
Balla was credited for a lot of futurism art pieces, such as, Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, Velocità astratta + rumore better known as Abstract Speed + Sound, and sculpting Boccioni’s fist. Giacomo Balla’s works of art influenced many and he also taught the famous futurism painter Umberto Boccioni. At a time during World War I Balla’s studio was the meeting place for young artists everywhere. After World War I futurism started to decline and so did the number of artists at his studio. On March 1, 1958 Giacomo Balla died in Rome.

Work Cited: "Giacomo Balla - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 29 Oct. 2008. 27 Oct. 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_Balla