Trains in art

Trains in art

A locomotive or train can play many roles in art, for example:
*As a work of art in itself in addition to most functional considerations, especially in streamlined steam locomotives and luxury passenger accommodations of the early 20th century, known also as the Machine Age
*As a subject for a novel or film, such as "Runaway Train"
*As a metaphor in song or poetry, particularly for physical power or directed movement (physical, "romantic" or other), as in Fisherman's Blues: :..."I wish I was the brakeman":"on a hurtling, fevered train":"crashing headlong into the heartland":"like a cannon in the rain""...

In 1978, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris held the exhibition "Les Temps des Gares" with the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, the National Railway Museum in York, and the Leonardo da Vinci Museum of Science and Technology in Milan.

In 2008, Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery held an exhibition entitled: "Art in the Age of Steam."

*As the main subject of a painting, sculpture or photograph

ee also

* Bridges in art

Trains in Specific Artworks

"The Railway Station," by William Powell Frith, 1862

"The Travelling Companions", by Augustus Egg, 1862

"The Railway", by Edouard Manet, 1872

"Le Pont de l'Europe", by Gustave Caillebotte, 1880

"The Lineman", by L A Ring, 1884

"The Anxious Journey", by Giorgio de Chirico, 1913

"Railroad Sunset", by Edward Hopper, 1929"

References

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/exhibitions/steam/

"Les Temps des Gares." Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou Centre de Creation Industrielle. 1978.

"Full Steam Ahead." The Independent (newspaper). Wednesday April 30, 2008. (pp 12-13)


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