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Thanks again for your input, Gerax! More from the same artist:
Keith B. Harder

Children of Icarus

The use of imagery involving sky and flight goes back decades in this lifetime of work.
It has employed different subjects and has taken up many forms of expression, from painting to land art.

This protracted artistic investigation is called "The Children of Icarus"         

On Site Review web exhibition of  memorial art and architecture, Wed. Dec 16, 2009
Article in University of Aberta Folio, Dec. 11, 2009 pg. 9

Paintings (early and late):

 Children of Icarus: Time Fault October: Morning, 1981

 
 Oil on Canvas, 48" x 32"

 Children of Icarus: February Flight, 1981

 
 Oil on Canvas, 30" x 46"


Dry Bones a collection of drawings:

 Children of Icarus:  Dry Bones, 2007

 

 

 

 Charcoal, Graphite, Ink on Paper, ~21" x 29", ~10" x 13.5"


Dereliction of Memory a collection of digital prints.


Aftermath two sculptures.


Gravitas (in progress) the making of a land art installation:

 Children of Icarus: Gravitas, 2010
 

Gravitas - An Art Installation in Landscape

read more here:
http://www.bombercommandmuseum.ca/gravitas.html

 
 Landscape Installation for the Bomber Command MuseumPermanent exhibition, Cayley, AB

 Anson twin-engine airplanes were used to train pilots in the Commonwealth Air Training Program of WWII.  After the war, many of these planes were sold as scrap or parts to local farmers.  Bob Evans of the Nanton Lancaster Society Air Museum has collected twelve skeletons of these abandoned planes for an Anson reconstruction project.  The remains have been assembled by Keith Harder in a land art installation, Gravitas, located along the 2A highway 3km north of Cayley, Alberta. It is on private land and is not open to the public although it is visible from the air.

 These artifacts are some of the only palpable remainders of a galvanising moment in the history of western Canada; a time that was fraught with desperation and hope as well as romance and grievous tragedy. This moment produced stories which condense much of the mystery that comprises the human condition. Those stories accrete to these artifacts in complex, if partial, ways.

 For the photographic narrative of the making of this work, click here.
 http://www.onsitereview.ca/warmemorialexhib


Most recent work: a painting Resolve:

 Children of Icarus: Resolve, 2011

 
 oil on canvas, 66" x 48"
           

a sculpture Aftermath III:

 Children of Icarus: Aftermath III, 2011

 
 Steel


www.augustana.ca/~hardk

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I took the picture below of 'Mig like Phantom' today at an exhibition. the print caught my eye as it was inspired by the GELI paper models that were quite popular 30 years ago. Here are pictures of original MiG-19 and F-4 paper plane sets:




Michael Schuster

Mig like Phantom, 1985


Cibachrome
sorry for the bad photo, my phone has a crap camera


Mig as Phantom, 1989


Model airplane, silk-screen print on aluminium, 500 x 330 x 160 cm
Edition of 3, numbered and signed certificate

[max_thehitman]

That "Children of Icarus: Gravitas" 2010, landscape art thing looks very interesting.

But the Spitfire made of egg cartons is still the winner 
Love the little wheels on that one!

[Wildchild]

Grumman S-2 Trackers that were located in St. Augustine Florida until May 2012 when they were all scrapped.

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Grumman S-2 Trackers that were located in St. Augustine Florida until May 2012 when they were all scrapped.

Thank you for your inspiration, Wildchild!

Troy Paiva, A.K.A. Lost America

RAF Boneyard, 2009







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Long Marston Airfield, near Stratford Upon Avon. Cold, wet and rainy.


The Secret Boneyard, 2008







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Somewhere in the American desert, far off the beaten track, this amazing private collection of vintage aircraft hides from the public eye.

The yard contains B-25s, B-29s, F-86s, Lockheed Lodestars, and a whole host of other old and rare aircraft, most of them in pieces, awaiting eventual reassembly.

I snuck into this place on a sweltering night in 2008 and got caught, red-handed a couple hours later, when the gun and big dog loving caretaker came home. He was seriously pissed at me for ignoring all the "No Trespassing" signs and threw me out, but not before telling me the owner would sue me if I ever went public with the images. After almost 3 years of sitting on the work, I inadvertently found out who the owner was (while researching another site) and contacted him with the images I shot in 2008. Now a fan of my work, he's given me access and has let me show the old and new work, with the provision that I not release his name or the location of this truly amazing place, hereafter known as "The Secret Boneyard." He's concerned about thieves and vandals and doesn't want to be pestered with tourists. He's being very smart when he says he wants as few people as possible to know where it is. [...]

I was shooting in a wind storm on my last night here when my gear took a short flight. The tripod mount was ripped out of the camera and the lower part of the body was sprung. I was still able to shoot with it that night though, gaffers taped to the tripod (you woulda loved it, it was the most ghetto kludge you've ever seen!) I did 16 set ups that night and only lost one to camera movement FTW. My repair guy declared the damage fatal, considering what 20D's sell for these days, so I need to buy a new camera before the next moon that takes my lenses. There's a 60D in my future . . .


Aviation Warehouse, 2007-2009









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An airplane boneyard at El Mirage Dry Lake in California's Mojave Desert. Aviation Warehouse services the film industry with aeronautical props as well as operating as a scrap and salvage operation.

The color night images were shot during the August, September 2006, October 2007 and November 2009 fool moons.

The black and whites are daytime shots desaturated in Photoshop.

Some digital HDR-style multi-exposure compositing, but I try to keep it natural and subtle.

All colored light work was done in camera, during the exposure. These are not Photoshop creations.


lostamerica.com

[Wildchild]

My God I would give my right nut to live in those places for a year. Lol

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José Ocaña

Cock Pit Lateral




CRJ




Genova Runway 28 Clear To Land



and more ...

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Martin-Young

Instruments II - "Flying by the Numbers"




Boeing 307 Stratoliner - "Pressurization is a Beautiful Thing"




Gable at the Waist - B17 - "Unlike Today; the famed of Hollywood helped win WWII (Clark Gable pictured)"




and more ...

[SAS~Gerax]

Air plane crash TU-154 Smolensk Catastrophe oil paintings by Marta Sytniewski:
http://significantart.com/blog/?p=381

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Thank you, Gerax! 

Marta Sytniewski
Psychosocial Effects of the Smolensk Catastrophe

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Oil, acrylic and wax on five canvases, 36" x 144"

PAINTING DESCRIPTION: Psycho-social Effects of the Smolensk Catastrophe" exposes psychological, emotive and social responses of the Polish public toward the Presidential Plane Crash in Smolensk, Russia. The painting is composes of five 24” x 36” canvases that function independently as well as a unified whole. In its joined composition, the work presents four airplanes in the background in reference to inaccurate news reports that followed the tragedy. more...

significantart.wix.com/marta-sytniewski


Gustav Klucis
Young People – To The Aeroplanes, 1934


Poster
http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/short-life-equal-woman

A Latvian subject of the Russian empire, Gustav Klutsis came to Russia proper during the 1917 Revolution as part of a volunteer machine-gunner unit that helped to topple the czar and safeguard the new Soviet leaders, including Vladimir Lenin. Klutsis had studied painting at home and continued in art schools during and after his military service, ending up at the radically progressive Higher State Artistic and Technical Workshops (VKhUTEMAS)—the cradle of Constructivism. [...]

Klutsis brought photomontage to its peak of expression in posters from 1930 and after that blended workers’ bodies (in some cases his own) and their machines with the heads of leaders of the Soviet state to forge a collective juggernaut for modernization. These posters, printed in the tens of thousands, helped transform the Soviet visual landscape in the early Stalinist era. Nevertheless, Klutsis was killed along with scores of other Latvians on Stalin’s orders during purges later in the decade. http://www.webcitation.org/6GPb9zLfZ

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POP
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid-1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising, news, etc. In Pop art, material is sometimes visually removed from its known context, isolated, and/or combined with unrelated material. The concept of pop art refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that led to it.

Pop art employs aspects of mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects. It is widely interpreted as a reaction to the then-dominant ideas of abstract expressionism, as well as an expansion upon them. And due to its utilization of found objects and images it is similar to Dada. Pop art is aimed to employ images of popular as opposed to elitist culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any given culture, most often through the use of irony. It is also associated with the artists' use of mechanical means of reproduction or rendering techniques.

Much of pop art is considered incongruent, as the conceptual practices that are often used make it difficult for some to readily comprehend. Pop art and minimalism are considered to be art movements that precede postmodern art, or are some of the earliest examples of Post-modern Art themselves. - Pop art from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Sir Eduardo Paolozzi

I was a Rich Man's Plaything, 1947


Printed papers on card, 359 x 238 mm

Paolozzi's I was a Rich Man's Plaything is considered the first standard bearer of Pop Art and first to display the word "pop". Paolozzi showed the collage in 1952 as part of his groundbreaking Bunk! series presentation at the initial Independent Group meeting in London.


43. Yours Till the Boys Come Home 1972


Artwork details Screenprint, lithograph and mixed media on paper, Dimensions support: 388 x 262 mm

These collages are mainly made from magazines given to Paolozzi by American ex-servicemen. They show his fascination with popular culture and technology, as well as with the glamour of American consumerism. The title of the series refers to Henry Ford''s famous statement that ''History is more or less bunk.... We want to live in the present''. It reflects Paolozzi''s belief that his work should respond to contemporary culture. - http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/paolozzi-i-was-a-rich-mans-plaything-t01462


7. Take-off, 1972


Artwork details Screenprint, lithograph and mixed media on paper, 337 x 242 mm

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Malcolm Morley, born 1931

Not Off the Grid, but Often in Flight

By HILARIE M. SHEETS, NYTimes.com
Published: November 21, 2012

BELLPORT, N.Y. FOR Malcolm Morley the drama of the London blitz during his boyhood has provided a lifetime of imagery to work with.

“We would go on top of roofs and watch Messerschmitts and Spitfires have dog fights and bet marbles on who was going to shoot who down,” said Mr. Morley, the 81-year-old painter, leading a tour through the studio that adjoins his house here on eastern Long Island.

He showed off a model of a German V-1 flying bomb that he recently constructed out of watercolor paper, scaled up from a standard kit. He loved model making even as a child and spent six months in 1944 assembling a battleship from balsa wood. He finally set it down on his windowsill, ready to be painted, just hours before a V-1 ripped open the outer wall of his bedroom in the night. His ship vanished, and his family was displaced.

Seven decades later, gracious and dapper, surrounded by a lifetime of paintings and with his wife of 23 years nearby, Mr. Morley seemed sustained by a domestic stability that eluded him in youth. But he is no less fascinated than he ever was by the machinery of disaster and speed. read on...


Flight of Icarus, 1995


Kirsten Luce for The New York Times

The artist Malcolm Morley, a father of Photorealism and neo-Expressionism, with his “Flight of Icarus,” from 1995.

Slide Show ‘Painting, Paper, Process’, NYTimes.com


Rules of Engagement, 2011


Artwork detailsoil on linen, 45 1/2 x 58 inches, 115,6 x 147,3 cm

A group of portraits of fighting aces are based on illustrations from Morley’s youth, when he would watch the soaring aircraft above a field near his home, an experience of “bliss.”


Russian Fighter Pilot (Ace), 2010



oil on linen, 45 ½ x 58 inches, 115,6 x 147,3 cm


Strafing with Beautiful Explosion, 2011


oil on linen, 93 x 60 inches, 236 x 152,4 cm


Corsair F4U, 2001


Lithograph and screenprint on paper, 1028 x 733 mm

speronewestwater.com
www.tate.org.uk