Giacomo Balla, largely self-taught and greatly influenced…

Giacomo Balla, largely self-taught and greatly influenced by French Neo-Impressionism during a sojourn he makes in Paris in 1900, when he is twenty-nine, adopts Pointillism upon his return to Rome, and imparts that style to two younger artists in his studio, eighteen-year-old Umberto Boccioni and seventeen-year-old Gino Severini.