Tranvías: entre el Ultraísmo y el Vibracionismo. (Barradas, Torres García, Nimero Salvat Papasseit)

In this article I discuss two examples of the encounter between streetcar and pedestriannd their use in artistic and literary works in the 1920s, in works by Andrés Nimero, Rafael Barradas, Joaquín Torres García and Joan Salvat-Papasseit. Under the Futurist impulse traveling by streetcar or the streetcar as an object was used as a metaphor for complex human situations, a usage that speaks to us of the powerful impact of public transportation on the human imagination once it became a conspicuous element of the urban landscape of Modernity. References to Italian, Russian, French texts and works of art. As Jean Starobinski explained, modern cities offered a whole range of situations and objects that can be used to express the impact of the new (streetcars, factories) and its coexistence with the old (churches, palaces). On many occasions this imagery, which mixes the past and the future, tends to present contradictory assessments of the present. The paintings and annotated texts show how artists and writers have tried to express the experience of the modern city, its spaces, the clash of simultaneity, the anonymity of public spaces.