About this artwork
Giacomo Balla made this painting called, ‘Abstract Speed: The Car has Passed’ with oil on canvas. It’s a pretty cool way of thinking about process, about how something is painted over time, how a car moves and shifts our view of a landscape. I love the blues, greens, and whites he’s used. There’s a real sense of the material here, you can see how the paint has been built up in layers, mixed and blended in certain areas, or left thin and translucent elsewhere. The surface isn’t smooth and flat, there's a real physicality. Look at the way he’s painted the lines of colour in the bottom right, the subtle gradations, the way the colours change. It reminds me of Duchamp's ‘Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2’, another exploration of motion and time on canvas. Art’s like a never-ending conversation. It’s always questioning, always looking for new ways to make us see the world.
Abstract Speed: The Car has Passed 1913
Artwork details
- Medium
- oil-paint
- Dimensions
- 50.2 x 65.4 cm
- Location
- Tate Modern, London, UK
- Copyright
- Public domain US
Tags
cubism
abstract painting
oil-paint
landscape
abstraction
line
futurism
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About this artwork
Giacomo Balla made this painting called, ‘Abstract Speed: The Car has Passed’ with oil on canvas. It’s a pretty cool way of thinking about process, about how something is painted over time, how a car moves and shifts our view of a landscape. I love the blues, greens, and whites he’s used. There’s a real sense of the material here, you can see how the paint has been built up in layers, mixed and blended in certain areas, or left thin and translucent elsewhere. The surface isn’t smooth and flat, there's a real physicality. Look at the way he’s painted the lines of colour in the bottom right, the subtle gradations, the way the colours change. It reminds me of Duchamp's ‘Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2’, another exploration of motion and time on canvas. Art’s like a never-ending conversation. It’s always questioning, always looking for new ways to make us see the world.
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