Title: Ernst’s Elephant. In taking a section of Max Ernst’s painting the Elephant Celebes and putting against the bombed out German city at the end of WW2 along with an early tank from WW1 – the point was to amplify Ernst’s theme of industrialization destroying the world in WW1. It was the first industrialized war. Ernst made the painting after WW1 as Europe was lumbering towards WW2. How completely prophetic Ernst sadly was.

Title: Futurists Flight Tech. The Italian Futurist school utilized Cubism’s style to capture the new energy and dynamism of the modern world to celebrate industrialization. I amplified Tullio Crali’s air bombardment painting to show just how much the techno-economics of industrialization was continuing to influence modern art.

Title: Dada Machine. I took a drawing of Man Ray’s fictitious machine title Dessin. He showed an egg beater wired to electricity. I put a real egg beater next to it and highlighted the electrical current from his drawing in yellow at the bottom. Man Ray was trying to be surrealistic in showing what could not be – an automated egg beater. The impact of electricity as one of the core technologies in the 3rd great surge in technology clearly was the impetus for his artwork.

Title: Ford’s Mass Production. The artwork features a photo of workers in a Ford plant juxtaposed with a Picasso figure on the left and a Braque figure on the right. The Cubists were not only depicting a new hard edged world but were also describing the sound of the industrialization as well. The two Cubist figures are both making music.

Title: Cubist Form Sources. This completely digital artwork amplifies a primary subject of Picasso and Braque.

Title: Political Forms. The Constructivist artist El Lissitzky painting Proun 19D demonstrates how much the ramping up push into industrialization within the USSR was influencing both the artist and their politics. Ironically Cubism came to Russia not from Picasso and Braque but rather an Italian Futurist exhibition instead.

Title: Constructivist BauHaus. The architectural impacts of steel and electricity technologies.

Title: Duchamp’s Motion. Though Marcel Duchamp was a Dadaist, he would utilize the Cubist style to amplify how far photographic technology had progressed. Duchamp was showing a fictitious time-lapse series of photos of a nude descending a staircase. The composition merges a camera to highlight the source of Duchamp’s central subject.

Title: The Heights. A Futurist architect Antonio Sant’Elia drew a a very futuristic rendering of a building, which would be used in the movie Blade Runner (1982), clearly shows how steel and electricity could change city buildings. My work simply amplifies the lines for the resulting surge in skyscrapers potential.