Modes of Transportation
Carriages, trains, ships, cars, bicycles and aircraft in art, along with the stations, roads and petrol stops built around them.
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Vehicles enter art as signs of power, speed and change. Roman reliefs parade triumphal chariots, and Dutch painters recorded barges and sleighs on frozen canals. The railway brought something new: J. M. W. Turner's Rain, Steam and Speed (1844) sends a locomotive charging across a bridge, and Claude Monet painted the smoky Gare Saint-Lazare in a series of 1877.
Modernists made the machine a theme in itself. The Italian Futurists praised cars and aeroplanes, and Giacomo Balla tried to paint the sensation of a speeding automobile around 1912–13. Edward Hopper's Gas (1940) sets a lone petrol station against a dark wood, and Ed Ruscha's photobook Twentysix Gasoline Stations (1963) documented the stops along Route 66. Andy Warhol's car crash silkscreens of the early 1960s showed the violence of motoring, while the Belgian artist Panamarenko spent decades building airships and flying machines that looked almost ready to lift off.
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