Gino Severini, Armored Train, 1915 Creates a sense of chaos and disorder; also a very modern aesthetic  Also uses the cubist style to rebel against the norm, since it was a very new and unique style. It’s such a clean break from renaissance techniques.  All the angles and geometry mimic manufactured aesthetic; reflects interest in modern technology and progress. As this train speeds through the country side, the fractured foliage and nature also creates a sense of speed.

Gino Severini, Armored Train, 1915

  • Creates a sense of chaos and disorder; also a very modern aesthetic 
  • Also uses the cubist style to rebel against the norm, since it was a very new and unique style. It’s such a clean break from renaissance techniques. 
  • All the angles and geometry mimic manufactured aesthetic; reflects interest in modern technology and progress. As this train speeds through the country side, the fractured foliage and nature also creates a sense of speed.
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    Pretty much the best Futurist painting ever.
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during my first ever survey of western art class, my professor explained the difference between historians and art historians. historians, she said, were interested in old things. art historians, on the other hand, were interested in old things of quality. you don't hang garbage up on the walls of a museum; it has to be substantial and it has to mean something. so here you go; old things, made mostly by dudes long dead, of debatable degrees of quality but always with a constant level of importance. think of this as a deck of flash cards... sans the whole cards part.

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