Futurism painting

A Bonhams auction this week revealed the energy and versatility of British printmakers from the Grosvenor School and avant-garde.

Giulio D'Anna

Marcel Duchamp ~ This picture captures the Futuristic element by creating motion in every single inch. The bodies flow with that around them which invoke a sense of passion, and stand out from the background to create almost a holographic effect. This truly embodies the spirit of futurism

A sport and a pastime

Giacomo Balla "Speed of a Motorcycle", 1913 Oil on Canvas Wiki: "Born in Turin, in the Piedmont region of Italy, the son of an industrial chemist, as a child Giacomo Balla studied music. By age twenty his interest in art was such that he decided to study painting at local academies and exhibited several of his early works. Following academic studies at the University of Turin, Balla moved to Rome in 1895 where he met and married Elisa Marcucci. For several years he worked in Rome as an…

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Music was Luigi Russolo’s birthright. His father was a cathedral organist, and his brothers graduated from the Milan conservatory. In school, Russolo...

Paintings of angular landscapes and a city aflame.

At a time when the future seems to belong to Chicago-school economists and the Internet to Google and the NSA, a new movement calls to re-imagine left politics from top to bottom.