Precision and Soul

Robert Michel - Propeller-Wind - 1918–1919

John Covert - Ex Act - 1919

Pierre Fix-Masseau - Exactitude - 1929

The Center of Universal Life

"Our renovated consciousness forbid us to consider man as the centre of universal life. The pain of a man is as interesting in our eyes as that of an electric lamp which suffers with spasmodic flinches and cries to us the most heartwrenching expressions of colour."

Manifesto of the Futurist Painters - Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Luigi Russolo, Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini - 1910

quoted by Eric Michaud

Bill Brandt - The Queen Elizabeth - 1946

Piet Mondrian - Broadway Boogie-Woogie - 1942

Renato Guttuso - Boogie Woogie - 1953

The Depths

"Then don’t weep for the horrors of war 
Before the war we had only the surface 
Of the earth and the seas 
After it we’ll have the depths 
Subterranean and aerial space..." 
Guillaume Appolinaire, War, 1915

Diego Rivera - The Manufacture of Poisonous Gas Bombs 

Sketch - Detroit Industry Mural - 1932

via Daoud Martin

Alexander Rodchenko - Costume for The Bedbug, pt. 2 - 1929

Leon Bibel - Family with Gas Masks - 1936

via Third Organ

Technology reaching it's fulfillement - Charles Sheeler

"Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, 

it transcends into architecture."
Mies van der Rohe, Blackstone Hotel Speech on April 17, 1950

Charles Sheeler - The Upper Deck - 1929

Charles Sheeler - Water - 1945

Charles Sheeler - Golden Gate - 1955


"Any sufficiently advanced technology 
is indistinguishable from magic"
Arthur C. Clarke, Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination, 1962