The Conservative (Lovecraft)/January 1917/Futurist Art
Futurist Art
The skill'd Apelles, by his Prince decreed
To paint with living line the panting steed,
Employ'd in vain each trick and study'd grace,
The likeness of the charger's foam to trace.
At length, in pique, his dripping brush he flung
Against the canvas horse before him hung--
When lo! by chance there spatter'd o'er each part
The painted lather that defy'd his art!
Thus the wild cubists of a later age
With freakish toil their fancies seek to cage,
Though their poor daubings all would nobler be
Should they splash paint as aimlessly as he!
H.P. Lovecraft