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Hyperrealism. 1967-2012

22 March to 9 June 2013

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Autor:
Tom Blackwell
Título:
Triumph Trumpet (detail)
Fecha:
1977
Técnica:
Oil on canvas
Medidas:
180 x 180 cm.

Ubicacion:
Private Collection, New York.
image © Tom Blackwell photo © Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York

<exchanging gazes> 5: Interior Scenes. Women and Daily Life.

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From 26 February to 10 June 2013

Autor:
Nicolas Maes
Título:
The Naughty Drummer
Fecha:
c. 1655
Técnica:
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. Nr. INV. 241 (1930.56)
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Autor:
August Macke
Título:
Hussars on a Sortie
Fecha:
1913
Técnica:
Oil on canvas
Medidas:
37.5 x 56.1 cm
Úbicacion:
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Numero de inventario
INV. Nr. 655 (1980.50)

More information about this work

Hussars on a Sortie displays the powerful influence of Futurist simultaneity on August Macke’s painting. The German translation of the 1910 Technical Manifesto of Futurist Painting was published by Herwarth Walden in the magazine Der Sturm in March 1912 while his Berlin gallery was showing an exhibition of the Italians’ works.

According to Vriesen , the work was painted in the artist’s Bonn studio in 1913 and the subject matter, so uncommon in his oeuvre, may stem from his enlistment as a voluntary in the 160th Infantry Regiment in 1908. The sketch-like nature of the composition is no doubt due to the fact that Macke was essentially concerned with capturing movement. The image of horsemen in action was a motif that was especially appreciated by the Futurists, who referred to the galloping of horses as follows in their manifesto: “On account of the persistency of an image upon the retina, moving objects constantly multiply themselves; their form changes like rapid vibrations, in their mad career. Thus a running horse has not four legs, but twenty, and their movements are triangular”.

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