Elasticity (Elasticità)

The painting Elasticità or Elasticity (1912) is the synthesis of the movement of a galloping horse. It depicting the pure energy of a horse, captured with intense chromaticism. The painting focus more exclusively on a study of vigorous, sequential movement, as foreign to the intellectual dynamics of Analytical Cubism as the aggressively harsh and sour colors. It can be said that Elasticity is a literal demonstration of the artist version of horsepower; a machinelike horse, with its virile, black-booted rider, thunders across an appropriately mechanized landscape of high-tension poles and factory chimneys. Similarly, a synthesis of human movement is found in Boccioni’s paintings Muscular Dynamics and Dynamics of a Human Body.