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Description: | This picture was painted in response to violent political movements in Europe in the 1930s. The huge central figure was based on Auguste Rodin's sculpture 'The Thinker'. It represents civilised, thinking society threatened by the sharp bayonets, huge guns and marching crowds below. The picture is painted in a version of the fragmented Futurist style. The original Italian Futurist movement celebrated machines and violent energy, including war. However, Nevinson's painting is an attack on these principles - the chain linked to the machine cogwheel at the front of the picture suggests that machines shackle people, not liberate them. | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Temporal: | Production date: 1932 to 1935 | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Creator: | Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (ARA) | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/artonline/se... | Go to resource |
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