![]() ![]() ![]() The painting was originally titled New York – an Abstraction, but was renamed with its more sombre title later as his optimism for the future and excitement for this new city waned. Its emerging skyscrapers and railways epitomised the dynamism of the modern metropolis, inspiring British artist Christopher Nevinson to paint this Futurist-style painting Soul of the Soulless City after a visit to New York in 1919.įuturism was an artistic movement that emphasized and glorified themes associated with an optimistic view of the future, such as speed, technology, youth and even violence, and objects such as the car, the aeroplane and the industrial city. New York in the years following the First World War was a bustling and fast-changing place.
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