Umberto Boccioni (; 19 October 1882 – 17 August 1916) was an influential
Italian painter and
sculptor. He helped shape the revolutionary aesthetic of the
Futurism movement as one of its principal figures. Despite his short life, his approach to the dynamism of form and the deconstruction of solid mass guided artists long after his death. His works are held by many public art museums, and in 1988 the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in
New York organized a major retrospective of 100 pieces.