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
- 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
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
- [http://graffiti-art-on-trains.blogspot.com/ Graffiti Art On Trains
Artists specialising in trains
In the United Kingdom the Guild of Railway Artists is a group of painters of railway subjects.
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