The beautiful game: revived art prize gives football its creative due once more | Emma John
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Football and the art world have long remained distant but the breadth of entries for this year’s award revivals a healthy revivalIt may be the Beautiful Game, but in its early decades football was a rare subject for artists. The Italian Futurist Umberto Boccioni whirled an athlete’s body into a vortex of movement in his 1913 painting Dynamism of a Soccer Player. You can see one of the earliest fine art depictions of a match – a smoggy, factory-adjactent scene called Any Wintry Afternoon in England – at the Manchester…
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