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The Street Pavers  1914

by Umberto Boccioni

Boccioni and his compatriot Gino Severini were two of the leading members of Italian Futurism, an early twentieth-century avant-garde movement that embraced industrial technology as a primary method of achieving radical social transformation. In The Street Pavers, Boccioni revolutionizes a scene of backbreaking work to create a luminous celebration of the modern laborer. T...
Size: 
39 3/8 x 39 3/8 in. (100 x 100 cm)
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art