Ivanhoe Gambini was an architect who joined the Futurist movement in 1928. During these years, he turned to painting and applied art, especially ceramic decorating. In the 1930s he was one of the first artists to use the new techniques of color-spraying and airbrushing. He also produced several architectural solutions, but after World War II he worked primarily in ceramics and mural design. The original title of his painting was Scivolatore fascista in volo (Fascist Ski Jumper in Flight). It was “purified” from the term Fascism for the Olympic Games.