The Fauves created paintings that seem to celebrate the pleasures of painting as much as the pleasures of life.
A-Level: Modern urban life
The Futurists called for the destruction of museums, libraries, and cultural monuments and glorified modern technology and the speed of automobiles, trains, and airplanes.
Umberto Boccioni and the Futurist City
Kirchner’s claustrophobic city scene reflects on a culture where everything is for sale.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Street, Berlin
Kirchner defines his city with only the figures: there is not a building in view.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Street, Dresden
A visit to Paris, after preparing a study for this painting, changed Carrà’s whole approach for the final canvas.
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