I am currently in the process of script writing and attempting to work in a narrative to the Waverley film so that I can get away from the straight-forward architectural visualisation. Having identified pieces of their manifesto I aim to work into the film I am now leaving Sant'Elia alone in favor of more artistic images which capture the spirit of modernism, speed and transportation which I can try to incorporate and hopefully have some fun with....
1. Jospeh Turner. Probably my favourite artist of all time. The sense of light, speed, scale and colour in his works truly symbolise the excitement and daring nature of early modernism and remain sublimely beautiful and romantic while remaining dynamic. This is his Rain, Steam and Speed - The Western Railway which was finished in 1844 and depicts a steam train crossing the Maidenhead Railway Bridge over the Thames.
2. New York's Grand Central Station as photographed by John Collier in 1941. Arguably one of the more famous sequences of railway station photographs and certainly one of the most cliched. Still, the atmosphere is wonderful and the sense of space and scale shown in the image is representative of the modernist desire to use modern technology to get as much light and covering over a single space as possible, while the regimented layout is almost classical in proportions.
3. Speeding Train by Ivo Pannaggi 1922. Not my favourite style or cubist painting however it is very representative in composition and layout of the Futurist painters and posters which many artists got commissoned to do. The modern, bold colours and texture is typical of the period while the deliberate abstraction of the form creates an impression rather than direct representation of the object. interesting.
4. Train Wreck at Montpernasse, 22nd October 1895. From the first time I saw this image I instantly loved how chaotic and surreal it is. The train derailed after overrunning the buffer on the track and while everyone on board survived a woman below was killed by debris from the partial collapse of the building. The sheer improbability of the image makes it impossible to look away.
There are of course hundreds more images which will be of use to me in the coming months but I wanted to include these as a diverse starting point. If possible it would be great to hear from you all if you have any favourite images of trains, train-stations or even early modernist representations of technology as its always good to gather other people's impressions.
1. Jospeh Turner. Probably my favourite artist of all time. The sense of light, speed, scale and colour in his works truly symbolise the excitement and daring nature of early modernism and remain sublimely beautiful and romantic while remaining dynamic. This is his Rain, Steam and Speed - The Western Railway which was finished in 1844 and depicts a steam train crossing the Maidenhead Railway Bridge over the Thames.
4. Train Wreck at Montpernasse, 22nd October 1895. From the first time I saw this image I instantly loved how chaotic and surreal it is. The train derailed after overrunning the buffer on the track and while everyone on board survived a woman below was killed by debris from the partial collapse of the building. The sheer improbability of the image makes it impossible to look away.
There are of course hundreds more images which will be of use to me in the coming months but I wanted to include these as a diverse starting point. If possible it would be great to hear from you all if you have any favourite images of trains, train-stations or even early modernist representations of technology as its always good to gather other people's impressions.
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