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Natalia Sergeyevna Goncharova was a Russian innovative artist who formed a part of the Futurism movement.
Futurism was an art movement that “took speed, technology andmodernity as its inspiration”. It lasted between 1909 and 1944 and featured paintings which usually had the main objects fused with the background in an abstract way.
Goncharova’s painting of “The Cyclist” is full of forms in motion. Movement is presented through a man on his bike moving down the street. Furthermore she suggests motion in her painting by repeating the outline of the cycling man.
In this painting we see how she did not hesitate to break up forms and rearrange their component parts. She introduced musical notation, letters and words, as they flash past in shop signs. The background is somewhat blurry creating that sense of speed and movement; almost fooling the eye, through the use of earth tones.
To me this composition speaks speed, energy, noise, rhythm and pulse due to the repetition of lines. It is as though she managed to capture the moving cyclist with all his passing elements in one shot in time.
References
A Passion for Art, 2013. Art Movements & Periods. [Online] Available at: http://www.thepassionforart.com/art-movements-periods-2/ [Accessed 20 October 2013].
Grinnell College, n.d. The Art of Natalia Goncharova. [Online] Available at: http://web.grinnell.edu/courses/tut/F01/TUT100-04/goncharova2.htm [Accessed 20 October 2013].
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