The Street Light-Study of Light

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• Author of the reproduced work: Balla Giacomo
• Caption: 58. The Street Light-Study of Light. (1909). Oil on canvas, 68 3/4 x 45 1/4 inches. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. To study the forms and colors for this painting. Balla observed the light for hours on end, night after night. He went blind temporarily, and to rgain his eyesigt was forced to spend several days in a darkened room. The chevrons, radiating from the electric lamp, are painted in the colors of the spectrum. He later uses the same "rainbow" colors for his "Iridescent Interpenetration" studies (see figs. 67-80). Marinetti wrote the Futurist Manifesto "Let´s Kill the Moonlight" in 1909; Balla, in his painting, has deliberately included the moon in the light sphere of the electric lamp as if to emphasize the triumph of electricity and progress.
• Place: New York
• Year of the work: 1909
• Image typology: painting
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