Umberto Boccioni - States of Mind, Those Who Go 1911

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Umberto Boccioni - States of Mind, Those Who Go 1911

States of Mind, Those Who Go 1911
96x70cm oil/canvas
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, NY, US

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From Museum of Modern Art:
Set in a train station, this series of three paintings explores the psychological dimension of modern life's transitory nature. In The Farewells, Boccioni captures chaotic movement and the fusion of people swept away in waves as the train's steam bellows into the sky. Oblique lines hint at departure in Those Who Go, in which Boccioni said he sought to express "loneliness, anguish, and dazed confusion." In Those Who Stay, vertical lines convey the weight of sadness carried by those left behind.