Soon after, around 1913, he became friendly with the Italian Futurists - Marinetti, Boccioni, Carra, but not joined their group. In 1914 he went to Paris, where he met Henri Matisse, Max Jacob, Guillaume Apollinaire, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger, Juan Gris, and Alexander Archipenko. Painting Manelli this period still figurative - he was interested in spatial composition, the breakdown of forms, color plans.
But soon, returning to Italy in 1915, Manelli began doing abstract work, which he called "fictitious art".
I must say, Manelli never entered into any group, not overly committed to the artistic movements. Manelli found himself in the art of its own way, of course, is not alien to the aesthetics of his time, but the way this was different from all, individual.
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