# Abstract-futurist Composition

- By: Chris Lanooy (Sint Annaland, 1881–1948)
- Date: c. 1912
- Medium: canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 56.5 cm x width 66.5 cm
- Credit line: Purchased with the support of the Knecht-Drenth Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-5066--a83d07a71370cba3b6d85ea77c815c0e)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/8e9b4faa6ffa0cc786097f8a8ab9d0b3.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

In 1912-1913 paintings by Italian Futurists were exhibited in various Dutch cities. Their picturing of movement with ‘lines of force,’ as they called them, was unprecedented. While Futurism became a hype in the newspapers, it found less resonance among Dutch artists. An exception was the Gouda ceramist and painter Chris Lanooy. His dynamic composition of rays and circles evokes the image of an explosion, or a car racing by.