“.. Is it indisputable that several aesthetic declarations of our French comrades (the Cubists) display a sort of masked academicism. It is not, indeed, a return to the Academy to declare that the subject, in painting, has a perfectly insignificant value?... To paint from the posing model as an absurdity, and an act of mental cowardice, even if the model be translated upon the picture in linear, spherical and cubic forms..”

— Umberto Boccioni

Source: 1912, Les exposants au public', 1912, pp. 2, 3.

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Italian painter and sculptor 1882–1916

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