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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 08/04/2016 at 15:04 • Filed to: None

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States of Mind I: The Farewells, 1911

Visione simultanee, 1912

State of Mind: Those Who Go, 1911

Riot at the Galleria, 1909

Passing Train, 1908

The Drinker, 1914

Self portrait, 1908

Honeybunchesofgoats > ttyymmnn 08/04/2016 at 15:13

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It’s Balla, not Boccioni, but this is one of my favorite Furutist paintings.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > ttyymmnn 08/04/2016 at 15:15

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Bro, what filter is that?

ttyymmnn > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 08/04/2016 at 15:19

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Paint brush.

ttyymmnn > Honeybunchesofgoats 08/04/2016 at 15:20

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Fascinating painting. It’s like a timed exposure, movement caught in a still medium. Brilliant.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > ttyymmnn 08/04/2016 at 15:20

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Haha, I know, my undergrad degree was humanities so I am familiar with many artist.

Honeybunchesofgoats > ttyymmnn 08/04/2016 at 16:00

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Exactly! Have been lucky enough to see violin virtuosi up close, this does an amazing job of capturing that essence.

There was a great show on Italian Futurism at the Guggenheim a few years ago that had this painting.

It's such a great art style that's so bittersweet considering how many people would become disenchanted with technology after WWI.

ttyymmnn > Honeybunchesofgoats 08/04/2016 at 16:02

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Considering that technology was supposed to make war unthinkable, you can understand their feelings. Perhaps, though, the nuclear ICBM has finally done just that.

Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch > ttyymmnn 08/04/2016 at 16:08

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I prefer Russian futurism, but man do I love futurist art.

ttyymmnn > Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch 08/04/2016 at 16:27

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That's awesome. Who is the artist?

DinoValentino > ttyymmnn 08/04/2016 at 17:14

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Excellent artistry. I’m inspired. It’s amazing to think we all have machines in our pocket capable of capturing whatever scene we want and transforming it into a similar style. We take it a step further by being able to share it with thousands of people in seconds. (Probably more people than this man could ever hope to fit into his exhibition in the early 1900s.)

It just makes me think we have got it made and we take it for granted. Many have congregated around this man’s paintings having a chat, analyzing, and socializing for hours. Our renditions are captured, tweeted, liked, and forgotten. Sometimes all within a day.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 08/04/2016 at 17:15

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Something about these works reminds me of Edward Hopper. The color? The medium?

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 08/04/2016 at 17:19

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Hopper was working a bit later, and did his most famous work in the 40s. But he does use a similar palette, though his style is quite different.

Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch > ttyymmnn 08/04/2016 at 17:22

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El Lissitzky

ttyymmnn > DinoValentino 08/04/2016 at 17:24

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We definitely live in a world where the image is evanescent. What amazes me about art, such as the Boccioni’s train painting above, is that they took hours or days to create an image of something that happened in seconds. Today, we capture and freeze those moments with a camera, but artists capture them with their mind, and perhaps that’s why the works are so stunning, because we see those moments through the filter of their memory, imagination and emotion. In many ways, their depiction of a moment carries so much more weight—and reality—than any photograph could ever capture.

ttyymmnn > Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch 08/04/2016 at 17:25

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Thanks.

ttyymmnn > Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch 08/04/2016 at 17:42

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Now that I look at that image in the computer rather than the phone, I see so much of the industrial ethos that describes so much Soviet architecture and industrial design, such as aircraft. There is a sort of brutal usefulness about it.

Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch > ttyymmnn 08/04/2016 at 17:55

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I love futurist and brutalist Architecture. It’s straight up drafting porn. Antonio Sant’Elia especially:

ttyymmnn > Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch 08/04/2016 at 17:57

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Those are the sorts of images that inspired me when I was young, when I thought I wanted to be a draftsman. I have transferred that love of line and precision into music typesetting, which is tedious and glorious all at the same time.