Futurism was the idea that all time was happening all the time.
OK, that's not entirely accurate, but stick with me, it gets better... You see, there was the idea that you should be able to represent movement even in a static space. The idea that a statue's form could represent a series of motions though it is a single, stationary piece, was the key to many works, notably in the world of Boccioni. This applied also to painting, but then Futurism was gone, in the wink of a DaDaist's eye. I've never seen Sheeler called a Futurist, but there's another here that gets me - Industrial Surrealism. The idea to my eye is one of a made landscape, defined by the markings of the Industrial Age, but presented in the dream-like state, perhaps as if these images were being processed together through unconscious memory. Sheeler's Aerial Gyrations fits that idea perfectly. It it the merging and over-lapping of forms that are instantly identifiable as a part of the Industrial World, but presented in a form that is as if it were built over disconnected temporal ligatures. That would certainly speak to the Futurist ideal, and Cubist as well, but truly it is something different. it is a tale of the non-differentiation of forms within the world of the Industrial. It is about the architectural version of facelessness. In short, it is about viewing of the markings of Industry through the lens of timeless and placelessness.
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