Leonard Aitken's Mecha

This painting by Leonard Aitken is a futuristic metropolis. This painting is quite a leap forward from the other paintings, which showed things perhaps more achievable than this one. You can see the difference in futuristic scope over time between the paintings. Da Vinci thought his Orthinopter was achievable, Turner admired the Futuristic Fire Fly engine, and Aitken is simply looking further ahead. This surrealist artist chose to paint his version of the future, which turned out quite nice. One thing that Aitken could do that Turner or Da Vinci could not do, would be paint for fun. Turner and Da Vinci made their livings off of their paintings and various works of art, whereas Aitken was able to start painting halfway into life. This shows a change economically, thus proving that art is the result of a relationship between an artist and his time. If Da Vinci didn't get paid for most of his works of art, odds are he would've stopped working. It's the same thing for Turner. Luckily enough for Aitken, however, he can work at his own leisure.