Luigi Russolo’s Dynamism of a Car (1913)
Proto-sf-adjacent art created during the genre’s emergent Radium Age (c. 1900–1935). Research and selection (2023–ongoing), plus eccentric/evolving thematic categorization effort (2024–ongoing), by HILOBROW’s Josh Glenn.
This page is a work in progress. INDEX PAUSED BEFORE 1918.
RADIUM AGE ART: 1900 | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 | 1914 | 1915 | 1916 | 1917 | 1918 | 1919 | 1920 | 1921 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1925 | 1926 | 1927 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1931 | 1932 | 1933 | 1934 | 1935.
Also see: RADIUM AGE POETRY | RADIUM AGE TIMELINE. “Ut pictura poesis.”
Paul Nash’s We Are Making a New World (1918)
Radium Age CATASTROPHE art includes…
BITE THE BULLET: See FUTURE WAR.
DECLINE & FALL OF (WHITE/WESTERN) CIVILIZATION: Alfred Kubin’s MAN (c. 1902) | Hugo Simberg’s THE WOUNDED ANGEL (1903). 1904–1913 Pinckney Marcius-Simons’ STONES OF VENICE (c. 1902–1905) | Kandinsky’s RIDER OF THE APOCALYPSE (1911) | Kandinsky’s ALL SAINTS DAY II (1911) | Kandinsky’s THE LAST JUDGMENT (1912) | Kandinsky’s IMPROVISATION 28 (SECOND VERSION) (1912) | Giorgio de Chirico’s THE ANXIOUS JOURNEY (1913) | De Chirico’s JOYS AND ENIGMAS OF A STRANGE HOUR (1913) | Kandinsky’s COMPOSITION VII (1913). 1914–1923 Olga Rozanova’s CITY ON FIRE (1914) | Umberto Boccioni’s CHARGE OF THE LANCERS (1915) | Grosz’s SUICIDE (1916) | De Chirico’s “THE DISQUIETING MUSES (c. 1916, 1917 or 1918) | Grosz’s EXPLOSION (1917) | Grosz’s METROPOLIS (1917) | David Burliuk’s REVOLUTION (1917) | CRW Nevinson’s AFTTER A PUSH (1917) | | | . *
* These could be sub-categorized into the various causes of (white/western) civilization’s decline and fall.
DEEP TIME: See COSMIC AWE.
DIRTY OLD TOWN: See DYSTOPIA / UTOPIA.
DYING EARTH (or DEAD MOON): 1904–1913 Fernand Khnopff’s AN ABANDONED CITY (1904) | Čiurlionis’ THE PAST (1907) | Marianne von Werefkin’s RED CITY (1909) | Egon Schiele’s DEAD CITY III (1911). 1914–1923 Marianne von Werefkin’s LE CHIFFONIER (1917) | | | | | .
ENVIRONMENTAL / PANDEMIC: 1904–1913 Ciurlionis’ DELUGE (IV) (1904) | Čiurlionis’ FINALE (1908) | Kandinsky’s SKETCH FOR COMPOSITION II (1909–1910) | Ludwig Meidner’s APOCALYPTIC LANDSCAPE (1912) | Franz Marc’s FATE OF THE ANIMALS (1913) | Ludwig Meidner’s BURNING CITY (1913) | Ludwig Meidner’s APOCALYPTIC LANDSCAPE [more than one painting of this title] (1913) | Kandinsky’s IMPROVISATION. DELUGE (1913). 1914–1923 TBD | | .
OVERREACH: See SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGH.
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis’ Creation of the World — II (1905–06)
Radium Age COSMIC AWE art includes…
ATOMIC SUBLIME: See DISENCHANTMENT / UNSEEN FORCES.
DEEP TIME: Frantisek Kupka’s THE BEGINNING OF LIFE (c. 1900) | Frantisek Kupka’s RESISTANCE (1903) | Frantisek Kupka’s THE WAY OF SILENCE (1903). 1904–1913 Čiurlionis’ CREATION OF THE WORLD – II (1905–06) | Čiurlionis’ CREATION OF THE WORLD – XII (1906-1907) | František Kupka’s STUDY FOR COSMIC SPRING (1911-12). 1914–1923 Georgia O’Keefe’s BLUE II (1916) | | | | | |. *
* These could also be categorized as CATASTROPHE art.
DYING EARTH (or MOON): See CATASTROPHE.
INTELLIGENT DESIGN: Jens Lund’s JACOB’S VISION (1900) | Jens Lund’s THE GLORY OF THE LORD (1899–1900). 1904–1913 Čiurlionis’ ETERNITY (1906). 1914–1923 TBD | | .
IS THERE LIFE ON MARS: 1904–1913 Čiurlionis’ THE WORLD OF MARS (1904–1905) | Alfred Kubin’s THE CREATURE FROM MARS (1906). 1914–1923 TBD | | . *
* These could also be categorized as UNKNOWABLE ALIENS / SINGULARITY art.
MATHEMATICAL SUBLIME: See FAR-OUT MATHEMATICS / FOURTH DIMENSION.
OVERVIEW EFFECT: 1904–1913 Ciurlionis’ SONATA NO. 6 (STAR SONATA). ANDANTE. (1908). 1914–1923 TBD | | |.
STARS WHEEL IN PURPLE: Jens Lund’s WHILE BILLIONS OF PLANETS ARE COLLAPSING… (1899) | Kandinsky’s THE COMET (1900). 1904–1913 Henri-Edmond Cross’ LANDSCAPE WITH STARS (1905) | Ciurlionis’ THE SUN IS IN THE SIGN OF PISCES (1906–1907) | Ciurlionis’ AQUARIUS (1907) | Ciurlionis’ ALLEGRO (SONATA OF THE SUN) (1907) | Ciurlionis’ STAR SONATA. ALLEGRO (1908) | Wenzel Hablik’s STARRY SKY, ATTEMPT (1909) | Edvard Munch’s THE SUN (1910–1911) | Marianne von Werefkin’s SOLAR ECLIPSE (c. 1910) | Robert Delaunay’s SIMULTANEOUS CONTRASTS: SUN AND MOON (1913) | Robert Delauney’s SUN, MOON, SIMULTANEOUS 1 (1913) | Robert Delaunay’s FORMES CIRCULAIRES: LUNE NO. 1 (1913). 1914–1923 Giacomo Balla’s PLANET MERCURY PASSING IN FRONT OF THE SUN (1914) | Gerardo Dottori’s RITMI ASTRALI (1916) | Georgia O’Keeffe’s EVENING STAR, NO. III (1917) | Marianne von Werefkin’s FANTASTIC NIGHT (1917) | .
Radium Age DEHUMANIZATION art includes…
CYBORG MANIFESTO: 1904–1913 Helen Saunders’ THE ROCK DRILLER (1913). 1914–1923 Jacob Epstein’s THE ROCK DRILL (1913–14) | Francis Picabia’s I SEE AGAIN IN MEMORY MY DEAR UDNIE (1914) | Francis Picabia’s COMIC WEDLOCK (1914) | Picabia’s THIS HAS TO DO WITH ME (1914) | Picabia’s INTERVENTION D’UNE FEMME AU MOYEN D’UNE MACHINE (1915/17) | Picabia’s GIRL BORN WITHOUT A MOTHER (1915) | Picabia’s VOILA LA FEMME (1915) | Picabia’s DE ZAYAS! DE ZAYAS! I HAVE COME TO THE SHORES OF THE BLACK SEA (1915) | Picabia’s AMERICAN WOMAN (1917) | Picabia’s MARIE (1917) | Picabia’s GIRL BORN WITHOUT A MOTHER (1916–17) | Picabia’s AMOROUS PARADE (1917) | | | | . *
* These could also be categorized as NEW TECHNOLOGIES and/or UNKNOWABLE ALIENS / SINGULARITY art.
MECHANIZATION: 1904–1913 Duchamp’s THE BRIDE (1912) | Duchamp’s THE PASSAGE FROM VIRGIN TO BRIDE (1912) | Vladimir Baranoff-Rossiné’s SYMPHONY NUMBER 1 (1913) | Picabia’s MECHANICAL EXPRESSION SEEN THROUGH OUR OWN MECHANICAL EXPRESSION (1913). 1914–1923 Fernand Léger’s EXIT THE BALLETS RUSSES (1914) | Fernand Léger’s LE FUMEUR (1914) | Wyndham Lewis’s THE CROWD (1914–1915) | Fortunato Depero’s THE TOGA AND THE WOODWORM (1914) | Suzanne Duchamp’s UN ET UNE MENACÉS (1916) | Fernand Léger’s SOLDIER WITH A PIPE (1916) | Jean Crotti’s LES FORCES MÉCANIQUES DE L’AMOUR EN MOUVEMENT (1916) | De Chirico’s THE PREDICTOR (1916) | Picabia’s PROSTITUTION UNIVERSELLE (1916) | Morton Schamberg’s UNTITLED (MECHANICAL ABSTRACTION) (1916) | Fernand Léger’s SOLDIERS PLAYING CARDS (1917) | Fortunato Depero’s RED AND BLACK SAVAGES (1917) | | |.
THINGS ARE IN THE SADDLE: See NEW TECHNOLOGIES.
René Magritte’s Le Double Secret, 1927
Radium Age DISENCHANTMENT / UNSEEN FORCES art includes…
ATOMIC SUBLIME: Samuel Joshua Beckett’s LOÏE FULLER DANCING (c. 1900). 1904–1913 Hilma af Klint’s PRIMORDIAL CHAOS, NO. 16 (1906-07) | Hilma af Klint’s THE KEY TO THE WORK UP TO THIS POINT (1907). 1914–1923 TBD | | | | | . *
* These could also be categorized as COSMIC AWE art.
CHROMATIC SUBLIME: Kupka’s DISKS OF NEWTON (study for FUGUE IN TWO COLORS, 1912) | Robert Delaunay’s SIMULTANEOUS WINDOWS ON THE CITY (1912) | Aleksandra Ekster’s COLOR CONSTRUCTION (1912) | Giacomo Balla’s IRIDESCENT INTERPENETRATION NO. 4 – STUDY OF LIGHT (1912) | Robert Delaunay’s SIMULTANEOUS WINDOWS (2nd MOTIF, 1st PART (1912) | August Macke’S GARDEN ON LAKE THUN (1913) | Léopold Survage’s COLORED RHYTHM: STUDY FOR THE FILM (1913) | Robert Delaunay’s SUN, TOWER, AIRPLANE (1913) | Mikhail Larionov’s RED RAYONISM (1913). 1914–1923 Morgan Russell’s COSMIC SYNCHROMY (1913–14) | Morgan Russell’s SYNCHROMY IN ORANGE: TO FORM (1913–14) | Sonia Delaunay’s PRISMES ÉLECTRIQUES (1914) | Gino Severini’s SPHERICAL EXPANSION OF LIGHT (CENTRIPETAL AND CENTRIFUGAL) (1914) | Matisse’s THE YELLOW CURTAIN (1915) | Larionov’s RAYONIST COMPOSITION (1915) | Johannes Itten’s CIRCLES (1916) | Johannes Itten’s THE MEETING (1916) | Thomas Hart Benton’s BUBBLES (1914–1917) | | | . *
* These could also be categorized as SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGH art.
DIAGRAMMATIC SUBLIME: 1904–1913 Kupka’s THE FIRST STEP (1910–1913) | Robert Delaunay’s THE FIRST DISK (1913) | Kandinsky’s SQUARES WITH CONCENTRIC CIRCLES (1913) | David Bomberg’s JU-JITSU (c. 1913) | Mondrian’s COMPOSITION IN BLUE GRAY AND PINK (1913). 1914–1923 Marcel Duchamp’s NETWORK OF STOPPAGES (1914) | Duchamp’s 3 STANDARD STOPPAGES (1913–14) | David Bomberg’s IN THE HOLD (c. 1913–14) | Mondrian’s COMPOSITION NO. 6 (1914) | Mondrian’s COMPOSITION IN OVAL WITH COLOR PLANES 1 (1914) | Mondrian’s COMPOSITION NO. 10 PIER AND OCEAN (1915) | Hilma af Klint’s GROUP IX/SUW, THE SWAN, NO. 17 (1915) | Anna Cassel’s NO. 54 (1915) | Hilma af Klint’s ALTARPIECE NO. 1 GROUP X (1915) | Klint’s GROUP X, NO. 2, ALTARPIECE (1915) | Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s VERITCAL-HORIZONTAL COMPOSITION (1916) | Mondrian’s COMPOSITION WITH COLOURS (A) (1917) | Mondrian’s COMPOSITION WITH LIONES (1917) | Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s VERTICAL, HORIZONTAL, SQUARE, RECTANGULAR (1917) | | | | | . *
* Some of these could also be categorized as CHROMATIC SUBLIME art.
GEOPHYSICAL SUBLIME: Hermann Obrist’s GROTTO WITH BLAZING RIVER II (c. 1900) | Jens Ferdinand Willumsen’s SUN OVER SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS (1902). 1904–1913 Braque’s THE CITY ON A HILL (1909) | Albert Gleizes’ THE BANKS OF THE MARNE (1909) | Čiurlionis’ REX (1909) | Arthur Dove’s ABSTRACTION NO. 2 (1910) | Albert Gleizes’ LE CHEMIN, PAYSAGE A MEUDON (1911) | David Burliuk’s BRIDGE. LANDSCAPE FROM FOUR POINTS OF VIEW (1911) | Diego Rivera’s CUBIST LANDSCAPE (1912) | Luigi Russolo’s HOUSE + LIGHT + SKY MOVEMENT (1913) | Natalia Goncharova’s RAYONISM, BLUE-GREEN FOREST (1911 – 1913). 1914–1923 Jean Metzinger’s LANDSCAPE (1912-14?) | Lyonel Feininger’s BENZ VI (1914) | .
MICROSCOPIC SUBLIME: See SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGHS.
QUANTUM SUBLIME: See SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGHS.
RE-ENCHANTMENT: Odilon Redon’s JEANNE D’ARC (1900). 1904–1913 Ciurlionis’ SPARKS (1906) | Ciurlionis’ SONATA – II (1907) | Gustav Klimt’s HOPE II (1907–08) | Kandinsky’s BLUE MOUNTAIN (1908) | Giorgio de Chirico’s THE ENIGMA OF AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON (1910) | Kandinsky’s NON-OBJECTIVE (1910) | Mondrian’s LIGHTHOUSE IN WESTKAPELLE (1909/1910) | Burliuk’s ABSTRACTION (1910) | Duchamp’s PORTRAIT OF CHESS PLAYERS (1911) | De Chirico’s THE ENIGMA OF ARRIVAL AND THE AFTERNOON (1912) | Kupka’s THE CATHEDRAL (1912–13) | Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven’s ENDURING ORNAMENT (1913) | Mondrian’s TABLEAU NO. 1 (1913) | Marc Chagall’s PARIS THROUGH THE WINDOW (1913) | Marsden Hartley’s BERLIN SERIES NO. 3 (1913). 1914–1923 De Chirico’s THE PHILOSOPHER’S CONQUEST (1914) | De Chirico’s THE SONG OF LOVE (1914) | De Chirico’s MYSTERY AND MELANCHOLY OF A STREET (1914) | Vanessa Bell’s ABSTRACT PAINTING (c. 1914) | Vanessa Bell’s COMPOSITION (1914) | Aimé Félix Del Marle’s LOOPING (1914) | De Chirico’s THE EVIL GENIUS OF A KING (1914–1915) | De Chirico’s THE DOUBLE DREAM OF SPRING (1915) | Kandinsky’s EXOTIC BIRDS (1915) | Anna Cassel’S NO. 98. PENTECOSTE (1915) | Hilma af Klint’s GROUP IX, NO. 3, THE DOVE (1915) | De Chirico’s THE MELANCHOLY OF DEPARTURE (1916) | De Chirico’s METAPHYSICAL INTERIOR WITH BISCUITS (1916) | Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven’S GOD (1917) | De Chirico’S GEOMETRIC COMPOSITION WITH FACTORY LANDSCAPE (1917) | Marcel Duchamp’s FOUNTAIN (1917) | Carlo Carrà’S THE METAPHYSICAL MUSE (1917) | Olga Rozanova’s COLOR PAINTING (1917) | Paul Klee’s AB OVO (1917) | Theo van Doesburg’s “COMPOSITION IX (1917–1918) | | | | | .
SCIENCE FANTASY: Odilon Redon’s THE BLACK SUN (c. 1900). 1904–1913 Čiurlionis’ PYRAMIDS (ALLEGRO) (1908) | Burliuk’s TIME (1910). 1914–1923 TBD | | .
SOUL SEARCHING: Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater’s THOUGHT FORMS (1901) | C. W. Leadbeater’s MAN VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE (1902). 1904–1913 Kupka’s THE DREAM (1906–1909) | Mondrian’s EVOLUTION (1911). 1914–1923 TBD | | | | |.
STOP MOTION: Carlo Carrà’s THE FUNERAL OF THE ANARCHIST GALLI (1910Z-11) | Marcel Duchamp’s NUDE DESCENDING A STAIRCASE, NO. 2 (1912) | Jean Metzinger’s AU VELODROME (1911–1912) | Luigi Russolo’s PLASTIC SYNTHESIS OF MOVEMENTS OF A WOMAN (1912) | Gino Severini’s BLUE DANCER (1912) | Gino Severini’s DYNAMIC HIEROGLYPH OF THE BAL TABARIN (1912) | Boccioni’s ELASTICITY (1912) | Giacomo Balla’s DYNAMISM OF A DOG ON A LEASH (1912) | Luigi Russolo’s SOLIDITY OF FOG (1912) | Umberto Boccioni’s UNIQUE FORMS OF CONTINUITY IN SPACE (1913) | Umberto Boccioni’s DIMENSIONAL SHAPES OF A HORSE (1913) | Kazimir Malevich’s THE KNIFE GRINDER OR PRINCIPLE OF GLITTERING (1912–1913) | Umberto Boccioni’s DYNAMISM OF A SOCCER PLAYER(1913) | Félix Del Marle’s BRETONNES (1913) | Natalia Goncharova’s THE CYCLIST (1913) | Giacomo Balla’s SWIFTS: PATHS OF MOVEMENT + DYNAMIC SEQUENCES (1913) | Carlo Carra’s THE RED HORSEMAN (1913) | Umberto Boccioni’s DYNAMISM OF A CYCLIST (1913). 1914–1923 Gino Severini’s DANCER = PROPELLER = SEA (1915) | | | | . *
* These could also be categorized as FAR-OUT MATHEMATICS / FOURTH DIMENSION art.
TECHNOLOGICAL SUBLIME: See NEW TECHNOLOGIES.
Max Ernst’s The Entire City (1935–36)
Radium Age DYSTOPIA / UTOPIA art includes…
BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN: 1904–1913 Henri Matisse’s THE JOY OF LIFE (1906) | Baranoff-Rossiné’s ADAM AND EVE (1912). 1914–1923 Giacomo Balla’s STREAMLINES FUTUR (1916) | | .
BRAVE NEW WORLD: 1914–1923 TBD | | .
DIRTY OLD TOWN: Alfred Stieglitz’s THE HAND OF MAN (1902). 1904–1913 Umberto Boccioni’s THE CITY RISES (1910) | Fernand Léger’s LES FUMEURS (1911-12) | Carlo Carrà’s JOLTS OF A CAB (1911). 1914–1923 TBD | | | | | |. *
* These could also be categorized as CATASTROPHE art.
FROM EACH ACCORDING TO HIS ABILITIES: 1904–1913 Tony Garnier’s UNE CITÉ INDUSTRIELLE (1904). 1914–1923 Wenzel Hablik’s INTERIOR OF A DISPLAY TEMPLE (1914) | Antonio Sant’Elia’s AIR AND TRAIN STATION WITH FUNICULARS (1914) | Antonio Sant’Elia’s THE NEW CITY — HOUSE STAIRS WITH EXTERNAL LIFTS (1914) | Kandinksy’s MOSCOW. RED SQUARE (1916) | | | .
Malevich’s Woman with Pails: Dynamic Arrangement (1912)
Radium Age FAR-OUT MATHEMATICS / FOURTH DIMENSION art includes…
GEOMETRICAL UTOPIA 1914–1923 Kazimir Malevich’s SELF-PORTRAIT IN TWO DIMENSIONS (1915) | Malevich’s BLACK SQUARE (1915) | Malevich’s BLACK AND WHITE, SUPREMATIST COMPOSITION (1915) | Malevich’s SUPREMATISM (c. 1915) | Malevich’s SUPREMATIST COMPOSITION, EIGHT RED RECTANGLES (1915) | Malevich’s BLACK TRAPEZIUM AND RED SQUARE (1915) | Malevich’s DYNAMIC SUPREMATISM (1915–16) | Malevich’s SUPREMATIST COMPOSITION (1916) | Olga Rozanova’s NON-OBJECTIVE COMPOSITION (1916) | Georg Muche’s UNTITLED (c. 1916) | Liubov Popova’s PAINTERLY ARCHITECTONIC (1916 & 1917 versions) | Rodchenko’s GEOMETRIC COMPOSITION (1917) | Kazimir Malevich’s SUPREMATISM (1917) | | | . *
* These could also be categorized as DYSTOPIA/UTOPIA art.
MATHEMATICAL SUBLIME: 1904–1913 Jean Metzinger’s TWO NUDES IN AN EXOTIC LANDSCAPE (1905) | Jean Metzinger’s LA DANSE (1906) | David Burliuk’s SPRING (1907) | David Burliuk’s HORSE-LIGHTNING (1907) | Paul Sérusier’s LES ORIGINES (1909) | Paul Sérusier TÉTRAEDRES (1910) | Jean Metzinger’s DANCER IN A CAFÉ (1912) | Juan Gris’ MAN IN A CAFÉ (1912) | Marcel Duchamp’s THE KING AND QUEEN SURROUNDED BY SWIFT NUDES (1912) | Pierre Dumont’s CATHEDRALE DE ROUEN (1912) | Marc Chagall’s HOMAGE TO APOLLINAIRE (1913). 1914–1923 | | | | | | |. *
* These could also be categorized as DISENCHANTMENT / UNSEEN FORCES art.
NON-EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY: 1904–1913 Hinton’s FRONTISPIECE to THE FOURTH DIMENSION (1904) | Georges Braque’s THE VIADUCT AT L’ESTAQUE (1907) | Braque’s HOUSES AT L’ESTAQUE (1908) | Georges Braques’ FRUIT DISH (1908–1909) | Braque’s STILL LIFE WITH METRONOME (1909) | Picasso’s BRICK FACTORY AT TORTOSA (1909) | Francis Picabia’s RUBBER (c. 1909) | Léger’s NUDES IN THE FOREST (1910) | Braque’s LE SACRE COEUR (1910) | Braque’s VIOLIN AND CANDLESTICK (1910) | Robert Delaunay’s CHAMPS DE MARS. LA TOUR ROUGE (1911 / 1923) | Fernand Léger’s THE WEDDING (1910–1911) | Jean Metzinger’s TEA TIME (1911) | Marcel Duchamp’s YVONNE AND MAGDELEINE TORN IN TATTERS (1911) | Robert Delaunay’s THE CITY (1911) | Georges Braque’s WOMAN READING (1911) | Umberto Boccioni’s DEVELOPMENT OF A BOTTLE IN SPACE (1911) | Umberto Boccioni’s THE LAUGH (1911) | Carlo Carrà’s RHYTHMS OF OBJECTS (1911) | Umberto Boccioni’s THE STRENGTHS OF A STREET (1911) | Gino Severini’s LE BOULEVARD (1911) |ALbert Gleizes’ MAN ON A BALCONY (1912) | Henri Le Fauconnier’s MOUNTAINEERS ATTACKED BY BEARS (1912) | Fernand Léger’s LA FEMME EN BLEU (1912) | Aleksandra Ekster’s BRIDGE. SEVRES. (1912) | Picasso’s VIOLIN AND GRAPES (1912) | Umberto Boccioni’s SIMULTANEOUS VISIONS (1912) | Francis Picabia’s THE PROCESSION, SEVILLE (1912) | Malevich’s WOMAN WITH PAILS: DYNAMIC ARRANGEMENT (1912) | Picabia’s DANCES AT THE SPRING (1912) | Lyubov Popova’s AIR MAN SPACE (1912) | Umberto Boccioni’s THE STREET ENTERS THE HOUSE (1912) | Vladimir Baranoff Rossine’s THE FORGE (1911-12) | Roger de La Fresnaye’s THE CONQUEST OF THE AIR (1913) | Juan Gris’ STILL LIFE WITH PEARS (1913) | Francis Picabia’s UDNIE (1913) | Aleksandra Ekster’s CITY (1913) | Popova’s COMPOSITION WITH FIGURES (1913) | Popova’s THE MODEL (1913) | Umberto Boccioni’s DEVELOPMENT OF A BOTTLE IN SPACE (1913). 1914–1923 Gris’ GUITAR AND GLASSES (1914) | Diego Rivera’s THE ALARM CLOCK (1914) | Jessica Dismorr’s LANDSCAPE (1914) | Félix Del Marle’s THE PORT (1914) | Popova’s CUBUIST LANDSCAPE CITY (1914) | Wyndham Lewis’s WORKSHOP (c. 1914-15) | Gris’s STILL-LIFE BEFORE AN OPEN WINDOW (1915) | Diego Rivera’s ZAPATA-STYLE LANDSCAPE (1915) | Max Weber’s CHINESE RESTAURANT (1915) | Popova’s STILLLEBEN MIT GITARRE (1914 – 1915) | Popova’s TRAVELING WOMAN (1915) | Popova’s UNTITLED (c. 1915) | Jean Metzinger’s SOLDIER AT A GAME OF CHESS (1914-15) | Aleksandra Ekster’s FLORENCE (1915) | Jessica Dismorr’s ABSTRACT COMPOSITION (c. 1915 ) | Laurence Atkinson’s ABSTRACT COMPOSITION (c. 1915) | Lawrence Atkinson’s VORTICIST COMPOSITION (1914-15) | Lyonel Feininger’s GELMERODA IV (1915) | Helen Saunders’s BLUE AND GREEN (c. 1915) | Helen Saunders’s ABSTRACT MULTICOLOURED DESIGN (c. 1915) | Helen Saunders’s YELLOW AND GREEN (c. 1915) | Edward Wadsworth’s ABSTRACT COMPOSITION (1915) | Fortunato Depero’s BIRD IN MOTION (1916) | Jean Metzinger’s FRUIT AND A JUG ON A TABLE (1916) | Natalia Goncharova’s THE BRIDGE (1916) | Maria Blanchard’s STILL LIFE WITH RED LAMP (1916–18) | Robert Delaunay’s THE BOWL (1916) | Patrick Henry Bruce’s COMPOSITION II (c. 1916) | Man Ray’s SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (1916) | María Blanchard’S CUBIST STILL LIFE (1917) | Georges Vantongerloo’s CONSTRUCTION WITHIN A SPHERE (1917) | Alvin Langdon Coburn’s VORTOGRAPH (1916–17) | Marcel Janco’S BALL IN ZURICH (1917) | Seiji Togo’s KANOJO NO SUBETE (1917) | Albert Gleizes’ IN PORT (1917) | Juan Gris’s THE SIDEBOARD (1917) | Stanton Macdonald-Wright’s SYNCHROMY NO. 3 (1917) | | | | |.
QUANTUM SUBLIME: See SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGH.
STOP MOTION: See DISENCHANTMENT / UNSEEN FORCES.
Radium Age FUTURE WAR art includes…
Gino Severini’s Armored Train in Action (1915)
BITE THE BULLET: 1904–1913 Kobayashi Kiyochika’s NAVAL BATTLE AT THE ENTRANCE OF INCHON (1904) | Niko Pirosmani’s THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR (1904). 1914–1923 Marsden Hartley’s PORTRAIT OF A GERMAN OFFICER (1914) | Hartley’s BERLIN SERIES NO. 47 (1914 – 1915) | Kirchner’s SELF-PORTRAIT AS A SOLDIER (1915) | Kruchenykh’s EXPLOSION OF A TRUNK (1916) | Mark Gertler’s MERRY-GO-ROUND (1916)
| Edward Middleton Manigault’s VORTICIST LANDSCAPE (WAR IMPRESSIONS) (c. 1916) | | | . *
* These could also be categorized as CATASTROPHE art.
DEATH FROM ABOVE: 1914–1923 TBD| | .
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION: 1914–1923 Gino Severini’s VISUAL SYNTHESIS OF THE IDEA: “WAR” (1914) | Gino Severini’s ARMORED TRAIN IN ACTION (1915) | Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson’s BURSTING SHELL (1915) | C.R.W. Nevinson’s LA MITRAILLEUSE (1915) | Giacomo Balla’s WARSHIP, WIDOW AND WIND (1916) | CRW Nevinson’s A HOWITZER GUN IN ELEVATION (1917) | CRW Nevinson’s A TANK (1917) | | |.
Picabia’s Very Rare Picture on the Earth (1915)
Radium Age NEW TECHNOLOGIES art includes…
CYBORG MANIFESTO: See DEHUMANIZATON.
PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOBILES: Edvard Munch’s TRAIN SMOKE (1900) | Ramón Casas’ RAMÓN CASAS AND PERE ROMEU IN AN AUTOMBILE (1901). 1904–1913 Umberto Boccioni’s STATES OF MIND I: THE FAREWELLS (1911) | Giacomo Balla’s SPEEDING AUTOMOBILE (1912) | Luigi Russolo’s DYNAMISM OF A CAR (1913). 1914–1923 Félix Del Marle’s RAILROAD (1914) | Robert Delaunay’s HOMAGE TO BLÉRIOT (1914) | Kazimir Malevich’s AIRPLANE FLYING: SUPREMATIST COMPOSITION (1915) | Olga Rozanova’s NON-OBJECTIVE COMPOSITION (FLIGHT OF AN AIRPLANE) (1916) | | | | . *
* Some of these could also be categorized as STOP MOTION (within DISENCHANTMENT / UNSEEN FORCES) art.
TECHNOLOGICAL SUBLIME: 1904–1913 Giacomo Balla’s STREET LIGHT (dated 1909, perhaps 1910–1911) | Auguste Herbin’s IRON BRIDGE (1911) | Marc Chagall’s GREAT WHEEL (1911–12) | Olga Rozanova’s THE FACTORY AND THE BRIDGE (1913) | Diego Rivera’s PORTRAIT OF ADOLFO BEST MAUGARD (1913) | Francis Picabia’s THE CITY OF NEW YORK PERCEIVED THROUGH THE BODY (1913) | Wyndham Lewis’ COMPOSITION (1913). 1914–1923 Antonio Sant’Elia’s THE POWER PLANT (1914) | Joseph Stella’s BATTLE OF LIGHTS, CONEY ISLAND, MARDI GRAS (1913–14) | Kandinsky’s TO THE UNKNOWN VOICE (1916) | Morton Schamberg’s TELEPHONE (1916) | | . *
* These could also be categorized as DISENCHANTMENT / UNSEEN FORCES art.
THINGS ARE IN THE SADDLE: 1914–1923 Marcel Duchamp’s GLIDER CONTAINING A WATER MILL IN NEIGHBORING METALS (1913–1915) | Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes’ SILENCE (c. 1915) | Francis Picabia’s MACHINE WITH NO NAME (1915) | Picabia’s REVÉRENCE (1915) | Picabia’s VERY RARE PICTURE ON THE EARTH (1915) | | | | . *
* These could also be categorized as DEHUMANIZATION art.
Marcel Duchamp’s Portrait of Dr. Dumouchel (1910)
Radium Age SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGH art includes…
CHROMATIC SUBLIME: See DISENCHANTMENT / UNSEEN FORCES.
MICROSCOPIC SUBLIME: René Binet’s ENTRANCE TO THE EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE (1900). 1904–1913 Pablo Picasso’s NUDE FIGURE (1910) | František Kupka’s PLANES BY COLORS, LARGE NUDE (1909–10) | Kupka’s WOMAN PICKING FLOWERS (1909–1910). 1914–1923 TBD | | . *
* These could also be categorized as DISENCHANTMENT / UNSEEN FORCES art.
OVERREACH: 1904–1913 Delville’s PROMETHEUS (1907). 1914–1923 TBD | | . *
* These could also be categorized as CATASTROPHE art.
QUANTUM SUBLIME: 1904–1913 Hilma af Klint’s GROUP NO. 7, PRIMORDIAL CHAOS (1906–07) | Hilma af Klint’s GROUP IV, NO. 7, THE TEN LARGEST, ADULTHOOD (1907) | Hilma af Klint’s EVOLUTION NO. 15, GROUP IV, THE SEVEN-POINTED STARS (1908) | Marcel Duchamp’s PORTRAIT OF DR. DUMOUCHEL (1910) | František Kupka’s AMORPHA, FUGUE IN TWO COLORS (1912) | Kupka’s LINES, SURFACES, SPACE (1911-12) | Kupka’s LOCALIZATION OF GRAPHIC MOTIFS II (1912/1913) | Giacomo Balla’s SHAPE AND NOISE OF MOTORCYCLIST (1913) | Balla’s VELOCITY OF AN AUTOMOBILE (1913) | Balla’s ABSTRACT SPEED — THE CAR HAS PASSED (1913) Balla’s LINE OF SPEED (1913). 1914–1923 Balla’s ABSTRACT SPEED + SOUND (c. 1913–14) | Balla’s VORTICE, SPAZIO, FORME (1914) | Rodchenko’s DANCE. AN OBJECTLESS COMPOSITION (1915) | Balla’s SCULPTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF NOISE AND SPEED (1914–15) | Balla’s BLACK AND WHIT FUTURIST FORCEFIELD (1916) | | | | |. *
* These could also be categorized as FAR-OUT MATHEMATICS / FOURTH DIMENSION art, and/or DISENCHANTMENT / UNSEEN FORCES.
Victor Brauner’s Le Ver luisant (1933)
Radium Age UNKNOWABLE ALIENS / SINGULARITY art includes…
ALIEN INVASION: Hermann Obrist’s FEATHERY FOLIAGE (c. 1900) | Jens Lund’s MONE AME VOLTIGE SUR LES PARFUMS (1901) | Joseph Maria Olbrich’s CANDLESTICK (c. 1901) | Edvard Munch’s MADONNA (1895–1902) | Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis’ FUNERAL SYMPHONY (1903). 1904–1913 Paul Klee’s THE MONARCHIST (1904) | Picasso’s FAMILY OF SALTIMBANQUES (1905) | Aubrey Beardsley’s SALOME (PLATES 6, 9, 15) (1906) | Henrique Alvim Corrêa’s WAR OF THE WORLDS ILLUSTRATIONS (1906) | Edvard Munch’s JEALOUSY (1907) | Edvard Munch’s MAN AND WOMAN ON THE BEACH (1907) | Egon Schiele’s NUDE FIGURE (1910) | Carlo Carrà’s LEAVING THE THEATRE (1910) | Amedeo Modigliani’s HEAD OF A WOMAN (1911–1912) | Piet Mondrian’s FEMALE FIGURE (1911–12) | Constantin Brâncuși’s MADAMOISELLE POGANY (1913) | Richard Teschner’s STILL FROM NACHTSTÜCKE (1913). 1914–1923 Helen Saunders’ VORTICIST COMPOSITION WITH BENDING FIGURE (c. 1914) | Diego Rivera’s PORTRAIT DE MESSIEURS KAWASHIMA ET FOUJITA (1914) | Diego Rivera’s PORTRAIT OF MAREVNA (c. 1915) | Hugo Ball in Cabaret Voltaire costume (1916) | Paul Klee’s INTRODUCING THE MIRACLE (1916) | Johannes Molzahn’s SCHÖPFUNG (1916 & 1917) | Carlo Carrà’s PENELOPE (1917) | De Chirico’s THE GRAND METAPHYSICIAN (1917) | | | | |.
CYBORG MANIFESTO: See DEHUMANIZATION.
HOMO SUPERIOR: Paul Klee’s VIRGIN IN THE TREE (1903). 1904–1913 Sascha Schneider’s HYPNOSIS (1904). 1914–1923 Carlos Carra’s PORTRAIT OF MARINETTI (1911, reworked 1914) | Carrà’s L’ATTRICE FUTURISTA (1915) | | | | |.
I IS AN OTHER: 1904–1913 Picasso’s PORTRAIT OF GERTRUDE STEIN (1905–1906) | Picasso’s LES DEMOISELLES D’AVIGNON (1907) | Picasso’s FRIENDSHIP, TWO NUDES (1908) | Pablo Picasso’s WOMAN WITH MUSTARD POT (1910) | Kazimir Malevich’s SELF-PORTRAIT (1910–11) | David Burliuk’s FUTURISTIC WOMAN (1911) | Umberto Boccioni’s HORIZONTAL VOLUMES (1912) | Boccioni’s MATERIA (c. 1912) | Jean Metzinger’s MAN WITH A PIPE (1913) | Malevich’s PERFECTED PORTRAIT OF IVAN KLIUN, CONSTRUCTOR (1913) | Jacques Villon’s PORTRAIT OF MARCEL DUCHAMP (1913) | Picasso’s HEAD (1913). 1914–1923 Photo of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1915) | Diego Rivera’s PORTRAIT OF RAMON GOMEZ DE LA SERNA (1915) | Lyubov Popova’s PORTRAIT OF A LADY (1915)| Popova’s CUBIST CONSTRUCTION (PORTRAIT OF A PHILOSOPHER) (1915) | Jean Metzinger’s SUMMER (1916) | Jean Metzinger’s LADY AT HER DRESSING TABLE (1916) | De Chirico’s THE JEWISH ANGEL (1916) | | | | .
IS THERE LIFE ON MARS: See COSMIC AWE.
SCARY MONSTERS (AND SUPER CREEPS): Alfred Kubin’s A DREAM VISITS US EVERY NIGHT (1900) | Alfred Kubin’s ADORATION (1900) | Odilon Redon’s THE ANGEL OF DESTINY (c. 1899) | Alfred Kubin’s THOU SHALT NOT KILL (1900-1901) | Mikhail Vrubel’s FALLEN DEMON (1901 or 1902) | Alfred Kubin’s THE PAST FORGOTTEN SWALLOWED (1901) | Alfred Kubin’s DANGER (1901) | Alfred Kubin’s THE MOMENT OF BIRTH (1902) | Alfred Kubin’s SIBERIAN FAIRY TALE (1902) | Alfred Kubin’s THE HORROR (1902) | Alfred Kubin’s THE EGG (1901-1902) | Paul Gauguin’s PERE PAILLARD (1902) | Gustav Klimt’s THE HOSTILE POWERS (part of the Beethoven Frieze, 1902). 1904–1913 Alfred Kubin’s HEAD WITH CUT OFF NOSE (1904) | Ciurlionis’ COMPOSITION (1904–1905) | Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s TEMPTATION (1905/06) | Alfred Kubin’s THE SUCKER (1908) | Odilon Redon’s OANNES (c. 1900–1910). 1914–1923 Constantin Brancusi’s PRINCESS X (1915–16) | | | .
WATCHERS: 1904–1913 Ciurlionis’ THE THOUGHT (1904). 1914–1923 TBD | | .
Radium Age sf-adjacent art that so far resists categorization includes…
1904–1913 David Bomberg’s VISION OF EZEKIEL (1912) | LA PROSE DU TRANSSIBÉRIEN ET DE LA PETITE JEHANNE DE FRANCE (collaboration between Blaise Cendrars and Sonia Delaunay-Terk, 1913) | Francis Picabia’s FORCE COMIQUE (1913). 1914–1923 Kazimir Malevich’s AN ENGLISHMAN IN MOSCOW (1914) | David Bomberg’s THE MUD BATH (1914) | Carlo Carra’s INTERVENTIONIST DEMONSTRATION (1914) | Jean (Hans) Arp’s COLLAGE ARRANGED ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF CHANCE (1916–17) | | | | | .