Umberto Boccioni - "The charge of the lancers" - 1915

"What we want to do is to show the living object in its dynamic growth"

Umberto Boccioni (IT 1882-1916) depicts a fierce cavalry trampling soldiers with bayonets.

The tragic irony of this picture lies in the fact that just one year later Boccioni died after being

thrown from, and trampled by, his horse. (source: Art every day)

 

'Reclining nude' by Maurice de Vlaminck - 1905

Source: Courtauld Gallery London

Kandinsky's Swinging - 1925

Tate Modern - collection London (70cm x 50cm)

"Electric Prisms" by Sonia Delaunay - 1914

Delaunay's motto: “Nous irons jusqu’au soleil”  (We will go right up to the sun)
Gallery Pompidou - Musée National d'Art Moderne de Paris  (France - Paris)
Size: 124 x 124cm (49 x 49”)

Moholy-Nagy's photogram 1923

Light, the sovereign core of Moholy-Nagy's oeuvre.

Moholy-Nagy (Hungary 1885 - VS 1946) is best known as a radical innovator of photography. He almost single-handedly put her on the way towards modernity. In 1923 he was appointed as a teacher at the Bauhaus in Weimar. He experimented in the 1920’s with the photographic process of exposing light sensitive paper with objects overlain on top of it, called photogram. His theory of art and teaching is summed up in the book The New Vision, from Material to Architecture.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) Fotogramm, ca. 1923-25 Getöntes Druckpapier, 12,6 x 17,6 cm (P1007015) Courtesy Galerie Kicken Berlin © Hattula Moholy-Nagy / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn Bildquelle: Städel Museum