Two Girls, August Macke (1913)
Everything around the two girls is in motion. People and objects are dissolved into crystalline, geometric forms. Figures are duplicated, while colourful lines and glaring cones of light criss-cross the picture. Macke’s painting shows how impressed he was by the art of the Italian Futurists, who glorified speed and technology. At the same time, he took his cue from the abstracting formal language of the French Cubists. Macke painted only the two girls rather formally and in an almost classical way, thus, not letting them blend into the shimmering city life.
