Monday, July 13, 2009

Bicycle Race



Antonio Ruiz, 1938.

Philadelphia Museum of Art.

9 comments:

Another Kiwi said...

That's very interesting. It looks like the mind pictures I get from magic realism books.
And I notice that Lance Armstrong is not in the picture so it may be a drug free race.

fish said...

Nice, reminds me of Diego Rivera.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

no naked fat bottomed girls though.

Freddie Mercury, we need you!

mikey said...

Oh look. It's the tour D'Hebron. The winner to be decided by unexploded cluster munitions...

J— said...

Nice, reminds me of Diego Rivera.

It looks to me like they were contemporaries, although at the time of that painting, Rivera was more focused on mural work both in Mexico and the US (like the one fish links).

herr doktor bimler said...

It is not an uphill bicycle race, so I cannot become enthusiastic.

herr doktor bimler said...

I had forgotten about Ballard's contribution to the field of bicycle-races-as-literary-conceits.

J said...

That's pretty cool (not the purdy picture so muich, but the Ballard Atrocity riff).

Another Kiwi said...

CRAAAASH