Development of a bottle in space - SKETCHLINE

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1913

Development of a bottle in space

author

Umberto Boccioni

description

Mediums: bronze.
Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The design of this work was first a sketch in Boccioni’s “Technical Manifesto of Futurist Sculpture”. The sculpture exemplifies the attempt of the author at creating a sculpture that both molds and encloses space within itself. The artist intended to “open the figure like a window and include it in the milieu in which it lives”.