Talk:Umberto Boccioni

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Untitled[edit]

We need better pictures, more info, more info on individual works. I confess that I'm not an expert but I'll do my best to improve this potentially wonderful article. --Tothebarricades 07:56, August 3, 2005 (UTC)

I saw this sculpture at MOMA this weekend and it just blew me away.

That's nice. Got any, like, information to add? --Cadby ^(talk) 19:26, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Info on religious views[edit]

The following was removed from the article by an IP: "He was an atheist.<ref>Garberi, Mercedes, ''Umberto Boccioni: disegni, 1907-1915'', Mazzotta, 1990, p. 12.</ref>". This information is properly sourced, but I'm not sure it belongs in the article unless there is some discussion of how it relates to the other information in the article, such as, did it have an effect on his artistic output, or his relationships with other artists, or something similar. Should it be restored or not? --Robert.Allen (talk) 15:59, 18 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Copyvio in external link?[edit]

An external link here to a Getty Research Institute archive carries the following description:

Papers contain manuscripts, correspondence, diaries, photographs, clippings, ephemera, and other material by and about the Futurist artist and theoretician.

The description on the Getty Research Institute page reads:

The papers contain manuscripts, correspondence, diaries, photographs, clippings, ephemera, and other material by and about the Futurist artist and theoretician. The collection is especially representative of his Futurist period (1910-1915), and includes a number of essays, most of which were collected in the book, Pittura scultura futuriste (Dinamismo Plastico), as well as a compendium of articles regarding the 1985 show, Boccioni a Venezia.

That appears to me to be a copyright violation on our part. Am I wrong? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 23:53, 6 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Um, they look like simple facts that couldn't be paraphrased without losing the basic meaning? Other opinions very welcome. Martinevans123 (talk) 23:58, 6 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that's fair comment. The simplest solution seems to be to remove that rather superfluous description entirely. The basic heading "Umberto Boccioni papers, 1899-1986" should probably be sufficient, I believe? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 00:19, 7 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I think you may be being "over cautious" here, as they are simple declarative facts. But that is an easy fix. Maybe we could also link Getty Research Institutethere, to win extra "copyright brownie points"? lol. Martinevans123 (talk) 00:30, 7 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Image overkill, undue quotes, reference format[edit]

I'm thinking of trying to make this article a good deal clearer and easier to read, partly by removing some of the unreferenced material and the excessive quotations without commentary. In my opinion there are also too many images in the text – trying to read that narrow ribbon of text between two walls of colour is a challenge in itself; I propose moving all those that are not directly relevant to the text to the gallery section the foot of the page. I'd also like to try improve the citations. Would anyone object if I changed the referencing system to list-defined (which collects the text of all the references in the reference section instead of scattering them throughout the article) at the same time? I'll probably do so in a day or two if no-one minds. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:57, 28 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Boccioni and Fascism[edit]

The article completely ignores Boccioni's role in the rise of Italian Fascism and his support for Mussolini. See WP articles in other languages. Ontologix (talk) 17:47, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: 20th-21st Century Art, Performance and Media[edit]

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