Umberto Boccioni’s “Unique Forms of Continuity in Space” (made in 1913*) has become a classic icon for the Italian Futurist movement for its motion, speed, and celebration of the modern world. “Unique Forms of Continuity in Space” was Boccioni’s physical representation of combining dynamics and movement to portray “plastic dynamism,” one of his Futurist theories that he contributed. Plastic dynamism is the combination of an object's absolute motion, the movement that is inherent to the object itself, and its relative motion, the object’s motion affected by the environment.
*The plaster sculpture was made in 1913 and cast in bronze for the Metropolitan Museum in 1970.
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Frances Murray