In this artwork, how is the Painting analysis discussed?
Young Girl Running on Balcony mainly addresses dynamism, the phenomenon Futurists devoted their lives to illustrating. Merriam-Webster defines it as the “theory that all phenomena (as matter or motion) can be explained as manifestations of force." The Futurists believed that everything is made of dynamic forces, and that everything is in constant motion. This idea is best noted in the girl's repeated form across the canvas, which works to represent her actual movement through space. The lines are not very definitive between each form; in fact, there aren't many lines at all. The piece emulates an unusual sort of micro-cubist style. Balla also calls upon the techniques of both French Pointillism and Italian Divisionism. Pointillist painters utilize tiny points, which they dot on the canvas to create an image. Georges Seurat demonstrated the technique most famously in his piece, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. Conversely, the Divisionists, based in the north of Italy, used long brush strokes, more rectangular in shape than the Pointillists’ dots, and painted them next to strokes of contrasting color to create texture and depth in an image. Giovanni Segantini was famous for his pastoral representations of life in the Alps; his 1893 Afternoon in the Alps exemplifies his mastery of the Divisionist style. Balla emulates both these artists in Young Girl Running on Balcony by using tiny squares to create a mosaic effect. The many squares further break down the image of the girl herself and force the viewer to focus not on her form, but on her fragmented motion through time and space. Her movement, blurred lines between each step, is not exactly disjointed nor is it really fluid, but it is definitely continuous.
Georges Seurat Futurist Pointillism dynamism Pointillist Giovanni Segantini Divisionism A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte