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He believed that La Ville was revolutionary because of its ability to achieve depth and dynamism without resorting to old-fashioned imitative techniques like chiaroscuro and modeling. Overlapping and layered planes depict urban density, and fragments show the speed of urban experience. The broken views of billboard texts and images indicate not only the multiple stimuli available in the city but, even more, the speech with which residents traverse urban space. And if he took inspiration from that spectacle in developing his art, he hoped in turn to express - indeed to transform - contemporary perceptions of the everyday. One of the artist's most popular series of paintings were of construction workers, an example of which is shown below. |