What is The City Rises?
{{Infobox artwork | image_file = The City Rises by Umberto Boccioni 1910.jpg | caption = | painting_alignment = | image_size = 300px | title = The City Rises in Viale Isonzo | alt = | other_language_1 = Italian | other_title_1 = La città che sale in Viale Isonzo | other_language_2 = | other_title_2 = | artist = [[Umberto Boccioni]] | year = {{start date|1910}} <!--remove date template if before 1583 CE --> | material = Oil on Canvas | height_metric = 199 | width_metric = | length_metric = 301 | height_imperial = | width_imperial = | length_imperial = | diameter_metric = | diameter_imperial = | dimensions = | metric_unit = cm | imperial_unit = in<!--don't leave this parameter blank—either don't include it, or include the default in. Not including it will default it to in.--> | city = | museum = [[Museum of Modern Art]] (MoMA), New York | coordinates = <!-- Only use for the exact coordinates of the artwork itself (and only where known) and not for the coordinates of the museum. Leave blank if coordinates are not known. --> | owner = }} [[File:Umberto Boccioni 001.jpg|thumbnail|Sketch for ''The City Rises'']] '''''The City Rises''''' ('''''La città che sale''''') (1910) is a painting by the Italian painter [[Umberto Boccioni]].<ref>http://www.learner.org/courses/globalart/work/173/</ref> It was his first major Futurist work.<ref>[[George Heard Hamilton|Heard Hamilton, George]]. (1993) ''Painting and Sculpture in Europe 1880-1940''. 6th edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, p. 281. {{ISBN|0300056494}}</ref> ==Background== The original title of the [[painting]] was '''''Il lavoro''''' (''Work''), as it appeared at the ''Mostra d'arte libera'' (Exhibition of free art) in [[Milan]] in 1911. Though realistic elements are present, such as the building, and the space is still rendered through [[perspective