Abstract Speed - The Car has Passed (Velocità astratta - l'auto è passata)

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Balla was a leading figure in the Italian Futurist group. He believed that the power and speed of machines such as cars were the salient characteristics of the modern age and aimed to express this idea in his work. This painting was originally the right-hand part of a triptych. The left-hand part of the triptych was called 'Line of Force + Landscape' and the central one 'Lines of Force + Noise'. The theme of the triptych was the passage of a car along a white road, with green and blue forms, evoking earth and sky, in the background. The pinkish areas in this painting suggest the exhaust fumes left by the passing car.

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Title

Abstract Speed - The Car has Passed (Velocità astratta - l'auto è passata)

Date

1913

Medium

Oil on canvas

Measurements

H 50.2 x W 65.4 cm

Accession number

T01222

Acquisition method

Presented by the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1970

Work type

Painting

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