Giacomo Balla: master of colour and modernity

“In the 16th century, I was called Leonardo or… Titian. After four centuries of artistic decline, I reappeared in the 20th century to shout at my plagiarists that it is time to put the past behind us for times have changed. They said I was mad: poor fools! I have already created a new artistic sensibility – an expression of the future, which will be colour-radio-iridescent-splendid-ideally luminoussss”
Giacomo Balla