The entire bust was crudely colored, and one side of the
BOCCIONI
Head—Houses—Light
face was modelled in downward flowing lines and painted yellow to represent rays of strong sunlight.
The figure was ugly in the extreme; the lines were ugly, the coloring ugly, the technic clumsy; but as an illustration of a theory the work was both curious and interesting.
In the creed of the Futurist are found the following:
1. Sculpture must give life to objects by making sensible their extension in space, for no one today can deny that an object continues to where another object begins, and that all things that are about us—automobile, house, tree, street, etc., etc.—traverse our bodies, dividing us into planes and sections, forming an arabesque of curved and straight lines.