RUSSOLO, Luigi

The notoriety of Russolo's book L'arte dei rumori (The Art of Noise, 1913) obscures the fact that he was mostly a painter (and one of five cosigners of Futurist Painting: Technical Manifesto, 1910). His Treno in velocità (Speeding Train, 1911) is said to be the first Futurist painting to use a speeding machine as both its subject and theme. His major canvases of the next few years explored motion in both machines and people—crowds, thunderbolts, automobiles, political protesters,...