“…The hope that the artistic avant-garde deposited in the war is also based on temporality, one of its central axes, which is evident in the ideas of dynamism that we have just analyzed, as well as in those of simultaneity, fragmentation, or splitting (Alonso, 2000). They are aware that the past is in decadence and the present is exhausted and from there springs precisely the confidence that the contest represents, on the one hand, a break with History and the past (Vázquez, 1972;Subirats, 1998;Longoni and Davis, 2009;Barrón, 2017) or a longing to eliminate the present (Arnaldo, 2008;Olábarri-Gortázar, 2021). On the other hand, they also consider war as a "drug" (Isnenghi, 2007), as a cure and antidote against the many fears that circulated (Dogliani, 2013), and as a remedy for the present (Arnaldo, 2008: 75), as well as an escape from the gray everyday (Nouschi, 1999).…”