The Famous Artist Of Armored Train Of 1915. Armored train in action [train blindé en action], 1915 narodna galerija (national gallery), ljubljana, slovenia (in slovenian) north carolina museum of art, raleigh harlequin and pedrolini palazzo montecitorio, rome (mostly in italian) piccione e bicchiere philadelphia museum of art new! This painting depicts several different themes based on futurism.
In his manifesto of futurism, 1909, marinetti wrote: Armored train by severini is an absolute celebration of the war machine painted soon after italy’s engagement. Italian futurist paintings adopted a cubist visual vocabulary but were bolder and brasher.
From now on the artist increasingly focused on the harmony of geometric constructions like the golden section.
This study for the most famous of the futurist war paintings, the armored train (1915), incorporates an unusual aerial perspective in its depiction of a train filled with armed soldiers. The surging, upright (perhaps even transcendent?) form of the train carrying soldiers firing rifles is painted in a host of pastel colors that aestheticize the bravery and violence of combat. Gino severini armored train in action 1915. As of the start of 1915, the gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the julian.