Lightning
Luigi Russolo · 1910
Why it's great
A flash of lightning cracks over a dark city in Luigi Russolo's painting of 1910. Russolo was a Futurist and also made musical instruments that made the sounds of machines.
Where to see it
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Hang it on your wall
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Luigi Russolo was an Italian Futurist painter and composer, born in Portogruaro in 1885. He painted pictures of speed and light and invented the 'intonarumori', noise-making machines that played the sounds of the modern city. He died in Laveno-Mombello in 1947.
