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.

After building a foundation of skills, having studied the classics through Impressionism, both he and his friend Severini became students of Giacomo Balla, a painter focussing on the modern Divisionist (Neo-Impressionist) technique, painting with divided rather than mixed colour and breaking the painted surface into a field of stippled dots and stripes. After brief periods in Paris and Russia, he moved to Venice where he met the Futurists including poet Marinetti. He became the main theorist of the Futurist artistic movement, but was killed in a cavalry training exercise after being drafted into the Italian Army to fight in WWI.