There were dancers, singers and even a speed-painter who knocked off a portrait of the bearded and bespectacled leader with the haste of a graffiti artist trying to avoid the NYPD.
This is a snapshot of some no-one-in-particular being caught by the undignified speed and the incontrovertible truth of the painter's cameraphiliac's eye.
Cartoon speed marks, complex arabesques, two praying apes coming face to face: it is worth remembering that Wallinger began as a painter.
A year later, in 1959, the Beats did it their way, in Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie's Pull My Daisy, scripted and narrated by Kerouac, and featuring key Beats Ginsberg, Orlovsky and Corso, with painter Larry Rivers depping for absent speed-freak car-thief Neal Cassady.
To depict the brightness of colors perceived, synesthetic painters reportedly often apply with speed, pure, unmixed oil paint, or watercolor straight from the tube.
Wasn't the painter and writer Wyndham Lewis, whose vorticism movement praised speed, an early admirer of Hitler and fascism?
(Starting sometime in the middle of 1854, the Company's Court of Directors in London began asking administrators in India to hire photographers. The idea was to replace painters and draftsmen to reduce expenses, while increasing speed and output).
Photography might have killed Western painting and portraiture, for example, because painters knew they couldn't compete with the speed and accuracy with which photographs represented the visual world.
Not long before, Diebenkorn decided he needed to throw a speed bump in the path of his accelerating career as an abstract painter.
