Reverse engineering

Theo van Doesburg - Girl Knitting on the Harbor - 1918

Jean Metzinger - La Tricoteuse - 1919

Jesse Dale Cast - Woman in a Red Dress Knitting - 1936

Rythms

Jean Metzinger - The Harbor - 1912

 Juan Gris - The Book - 1913

Fernand Léger - The City - 1919

Docility

"To me, me personally, here is what meant working in a factory. It meant that all the external reasons (I had believed them internal before) upon which relied the feeling of my own dignity, my self-respect where in two or three weeks radically crushed under the pressure of a brutal and quotidian constraint. And do not believe it raised in me any revolt. No, but on the contrary what I expected least from myself - docility." 

Simone Weil, Lettres à Albertine Thèvenon, 1934-35

Jos Leonard - Man in de Stad - 1912

Piet Mondrian - Le Grand Nu - 1912

Roger de La Fresnaye - Le Jardin, Etude - 1929

Literary syphilis

"A manifesto is a communication made to the whole world, whose only pretension is to the discovery of an instant cure for political, astronomical, artistic, parliamentary, agronomical and literary syphilis. It may be pleasant, and good-natured, it's always right, it's strong, vigorous and logical. "

Tristan Tzara, Dada Manifesto on Feeble Love and Bitter Love, 1920

Sara Murphy and Pablo Picasso - Plage de la Garoupe - 1926

Invisible World

“The connecting of the idea of fourth dimension with existing theories of the invisible world or the world beyond is certainly quite fantastic, for, as has already been said, all religious, spiritualistic, theosophical and other theories of the invisible world first of all make it exactly similar to the visible and consequently ‘three-dimensional’ world.”
P. D. Ouspensky, A New Model of the Universe, 1914

Gustav Klutsis - Composition - 1921

via Charnel House

Theo Van Doesburg - Tesseract with arrows pointing inward - 1924

Francesc Catala Roca - Dalí and hypercube - 1954