Hemberto Boccioni was born in Italy.He was the leading theoretician of futurism, the most talented of its painters, and the creator of its first sculptures. He is considered the master of the innovative esthetic generated by the machine age.He studied in Rome With Giacomo Balla who revealed the theory of divisionism to him.Boccioni became the leading theorist of futurist art, both in painting and sculpture. What is more important to Boccioni than the representation of the figures is the human reaction to the experience of the forces of the street. Boccioni was wounded in World War I. While convalescing, he was killed in a riding accident in Sorte in 1916.