Armando Mazza remembered in the Futurist chronicles as one of the most impetuous incitators of Marinettian evenings, characterized by fights and arrests, sound slaps and his fists, the Sicilian, futurist poet, athlete, is described as a handsome rosy and clean-shaven young man, but afflicted by an incipient plumpness, which he wears with great ease . The Portrait of Armando Mazza therefore fits into the crucial moment of transition between Boccioni's beginnings and the admittedly Futurist period. The work denotes the bond still intact with the pastelist Balla, where the physiognomic exasperation is already in itself unprecedented dynamic, and the nervous, fast and repeated sign is directed to suggest motion, characteristics that return in all portraiture to pastel by Boccioni from the second half of the 10s of the twentieth century. Mazza's face - raised eyebrows and half-closed eyes as if to contrast the sun, half-open mouth - is multifaceted in areas of light and shadow emphasized by an agile and restless superficial handwriting that accompanies the base of the complexion, lightening from blue to shades of 'blue to bright green and yellow.