Boccioni proclaimed his intention to “open the figure like a window and include it in the milieu in which it lives.” He also stated in his manifesto his desire to “proclaim the absolute and complete abolition of finite lines and the contained statue.” The chaotic and twisting nature of the work may be meant to embody dynamism and is reminiscent of Boccioni’s painting Dynamism of a Football Player (Italian: Dinanismo di un foot baller) produced in the same year. Dynamism, an emergent theme in futurist art, is best explained by Boccioni in the "Technical Manifesto of Futurist Painting" (1910), written with the aid of other leading futurists:
