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Racing car Luigi Russolo, 1913
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Racing car

Luigi Russolo Β· 1913

Why it's great

A racing car turns into red and blue arrows that point in one direction, as if speed itself had a color. Luigi Russolo, a Futurist who was also a musician and invented noise machines, painted this in 1913.

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About the artist

Luigi Russolo

1885–1947 Β· born in Portogruaro Β· died in Laveno-Mombello

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.

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