The Street Pavers, 1914, Oil on canvas, 39 3/8 x 39 3/8 in. (100 x 100 cm), Paintings, Umberto Boccioni (Italian, Reggio 1882?1916 Sorte), Boccioni and his compatriot Gino Severini were two of the leading members of Italian Futurism, an early twentieth-century avant-garde movement that embraced industrial technology as a primary method of achieving radical social transformation