I Saw The Figure 5 in Gold, 1928, Charles Demuth
'Among the rain/and lights/I saw the figure 5/in gold/on a red/fire truck/moving/tense/unheeded/to gong clangs/siren howls/and wheels rumbling/through the dark city.'
The Great Figure - William Carlos Williams
'Among the rain/and lights/I saw the figure 5/in gold/on a red/fire truck/moving/tense/unheeded/to gong clangs/siren howls/and wheels rumbling/through the dark city.'
The Great Figure - William Carlos Williams
Indian Warrior, 1931, Diego Rivera
An Aztec warrior in the costume of a jaguar stabs a conquistador in the throat with a stone knife. Jaguar knights, an elite Aztec military order, believed their costumes enabled them to possess the power of the animal in battle.
An Aztec warrior in the costume of a jaguar stabs a conquistador in the throat with a stone knife. Jaguar knights, an elite Aztec military order, believed their costumes enabled them to possess the power of the animal in battle.
Une Semaine de Bont (A Week of Kindness), 1934, Max Ernst
''...steel engravings cut and reassembled...late Victorian bourgeois interiors, the world Ernst grew up in, subverted, the irrational attacking the domain of ordered structures.''
- The Shock Of The New, Robert Hughes
''...steel engravings cut and reassembled...late Victorian bourgeois interiors, the world Ernst grew up in, subverted, the irrational attacking the domain of ordered structures.''
- The Shock Of The New, Robert Hughes