Guggenheim Velo paintings

on my travels in Venice last week, I came across these paintings by god-knows-who and whos-that-then, in the peggy guggenheim collection. both are circa 30's, by italian futurist artists. thought you cycle enthusiasts might like to see them.

perhaps we could rip them for our spoke cards?! ok, bad idea!

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They are great , especially like the second one ....shame you don't know who painted them

i thought, in my infinite wisdom, the wonderful 8mp sensor on the camera would've caught the description beside the paintings. my hand shake put that to rest, so no luck. i had a pen and paper with me too. :(

The first one is Jean Metzinger http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Metzinger

The second looks like an early Kandinsky though I don't think that's right. My best guess would be somebody from the Italian Futurism movement?

Yeah it is Italian Futurist, it's Boccioni

Can you see the cyclist is being hugged by a giant beaming blue emperor penguin emerging from a yellow fanny ?

That Metzinger bloke gets described in Wikipedia as a regular guy..........."He was also known to dance in his home in the nude, with adolescent boys screaming slogans of antisemitism and satanism"

rv i dread to think what would happen if you ever took the rorschau test......

oh and by the way, this is without the use of wikipedia, the futurist movement took a lot of influence from a poem by filippo marrinetti, 'the futurist manifesto', which is about the thrill of a drunken car ride, which ends upturned in a ditch after swerving to avoid 2 angry cyclists.....

Is it like The Rorschach inkblot test ? Or are you spelling without the use of Wikipedia . Yeah well they're all a bunch of fascists , Mussolini lovers . We do the past the best in the world.