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I tell you what, I hate the way you try to read the text and every time another image loads the screen jumps. They should leave the screen where you're looking and push everything else up or down. It's really bloody annoying.

IT'S STILL DOING IT. SOD OFF!

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James Rosenquist
F-111, 1964-65


Oil on canvas with aluminum, twenty-three sections, 10 x 86' (304.8 x 2621.3 cm)



INTERACTIVE IMAGE

Artist, James Rosenquist: F-111, in 1965, was the latest American fighter-bomber in the planning stage. Its mission seemed obsolete before it was finished. It seemed the prime force of this war machine was to economically keep people employed in Texas and Long Island.

At the time, I thought people involved in its making were heading for something, but I didn't know what, like bugs going towards a blinding light. By doing this they could achieve two-and-a-half children, three-and-a-half cars, and a house in the suburbs.

In the painting I incorporated orange spaghetti, cake, light bulbs, flowers, and many other things. It felt to me like a plane flying through the flak of an economy. The little girl was the pilot under a hair-dryer. The town and country industrial auto tire resembles a crown. The umbrella and the Italian flowered wallpaper roller image had to do with atomic fallout. The swimmer gulping air was like searching for air during an atomic holocaust [...].

In 1964, the painting was originally designed to surround all the walls of the Leo Castelli Gallery on East 77th Street. The reason was I was concerned with peripheral vision. I wanted to specify that whatever one looked at would exist because of the peripheral vision that extends from the corner of the eye. Thus one would question one's own self-consciousness [...]. In the 1960s, the painting was critically taken as an anti-war protest, but there were a multiplicity of ideas that caused its existence.

http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=79805

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Nancy Rubins

Airplane Parts & Hills, 2003


Foto: Michael Schuster


Chas' Stainless Steel, Mark Thompson's Airplane Parts, About 1,000 Pounds of Stainless Steel Wire, and Gagosian's Beverly Hills Space, 2001


Stainless steel and airplane parts, 25 x 54 x 33 feet (7.6 x 16.5 x 10 m)
Photo by Erich Ansel Koyama


Photo © Douglas M. Parker Studio


Photo © Douglas M. Parker Studio

The piece brings together all these disparate elements to create a sprawling, monumental work that fills the volume of the entire gallery space.

Like an ancient massive tree, the sculpture is rooted to the gallery floor and grows organically from a single trunk. The sculpture rises to spread and cantilever out in multiple and unpredictable directions. The viewer, upon entering the gallery space, becomes engulfed by this huge, improbable structure and cannot obtain a clear sense of its boundaries.

The sculpture, made from used airplane parts, will reach 25 feet at its highest point and extend almost 65 feet diagonally. With this work, Rubins continues to investigate the energy of mass and how obdurate materials can be manipulated into buoyant and a seemingly precarious state.

http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/september-13-2001--nancy-rubins

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Anselm Kiefer
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HJW1mwBVzOU/TGGE2pHbDvI/AAAAAAAAEEg/mg3KhvWtY-4/s1600/sfmoma_Fisher_15_Kiefer_Melancholia.jpg

Anselm Kiefer
Melancholia,1990-91


lead airplane with crystal tetrahy, 126 in. x 174 in. x 65 3/4 in. (320 cm x 442 cm x 167 cm)
photo: Ian Reeves



Melancholia" (1990-91), a 14-foot-long lead sculpture of a jet bomber by Anselm Kiefer, is a gift of museum trustee Donald Fisher and his wife, Doris. The work refers to a 16th century print of the same title by Albrecht Durer and to the devastation that -- Germany brought on itself in World War II.
http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/SFMOMA-Buys-Second-Mondrian-Anselm-Kiefer-2993641.php#ixzz28QEPblW4


Mohn und Gedächtnis (Poppy Seeds and Remembrance)









In reference to a poem by Paul Celan, this work is titled “Mohn und Gedächtnis”, which means “Poppy Seeds and Remembrance”, and as is the theme of Kiefer’s work, deals with recent German history (apparently there are poppy seeds inside the plane).
http://fototype.wordpress.com/2011/11/26/art-anselm-kiefers-lead-plane-at-hamburger-bahnhof-museum/

TheGuardian - A life in art: Anselm Kiefer

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COMMENT:
The following artworks were considered offensive when they were first presented and might still be seen that way today. Nevertheless the artist's intention was not to diminish religious feelings but to comment on the relation between religious institutions and power. In the case of Christianity the New Testament always was about a message of peace. Still for centuries we went to attack carrying the words 'God with Us' in our minds and on our armours, uniforms and weapons? Justifiable or not, it's at least an interesting thought.

Please consider the following pictures in this context. Views of the artist don't necessarily represent my opinion

León Ferrari

La civilización occidental y cristiana, 1965


200 x 120 x 60cm


[...] In the field of the visual arts, the Argentine artist León Ferrari, through the different stages of his career, has time and again used archival materials to create pieces that deal with the abuses of power, social injustice, and the violation of human rights.

"I ignore the formal value of those pieces. The only thing I ask of art is that it helps me express what I think as clearly as possible, to invent visual and critical signs that let me condemn more efficiently the barbarism of the West. Someone could possibly prove to me that this is not art. I would have no problem with it, I would not change paths, I would simply change its name, crossing out art and calling it politics, corrosive criticism, anything at all really."

With these words, Ferrari concluded his long response to an art critic at the Argentine newspaper La Prensa who had been appalled by the fact that a “serious” institution like the Torcuato di Tella Institute would accept Ferrari’s work. The criticism itself was a response to the 1965 Di Tella National Prize exhibit, to which Ferrari had been invited. At the time, Ferrari had been shocked by an image of the Vietnam War he had seen in a newspaper and this inspired the piece “Western, Christian Civilization”: a US FH-107 war plane attached to a Santeria Christ, which, together with three other small-format works, addresses the relationship between religion and violence. [...]
E-MISFÉRICA - LEÓN FERRARI: ART, ARCHIVE, AND MEMORY by Andrea Wain


Series Relecturas de la Biblia (Rereadings of the Bible), 1986-87


Cut-and-pasted printed paper on printed paper 7 3/4 x 6 1/8 inches




collage sobre papel


Object



leonferrari.com.ar

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John Armstrong
Jet Plane Graveyard, 1940s


Tempera on canvas, 48.3 x 71.1 cm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/john-armstrong

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Kennard, Peter
Aircraft Carrier UKA, Target London 4, A Set of Photomontage Posters on Civil Defence in London, 1985


photolithograph on paper, 297 x 420 mm
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search?filter%5BmakerString%5D%5B0%5D=%22Kennard%2C%20Peter%22&query=

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Kalkhof, Peter
Stealth, 1995


acrylic, foil on canvas, 1460 mm x 1800 mm
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search?filter%5BmakerString%5D%5B0%5D=%22Kalkhof%2C%20Peter%22&query=

A stealth bomber flies over a desert landscape. Behind the bomber the landscape is covered by a grid, ahead of the bomber the space is full of small shining particles. The body of the bomber is semi-transparent; small broken up black and grey shapes are visible within its outline, but otherwise the desert below can be seen through it.

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Gerhard Richter

Düsenjäger (Jet Fighter), 1963


Oil on canvas, 130 cm x 200 cm


Schärzler, 1964


Oil on canvas, 100 cm x 130 cm


XL 513, 1964


Oil on canvas, 100 cm x 130 cm



Phantom Abfangjäger (Phantom Interceptors), 1964


Oil on canvas, 140 cm x 190 cm


Flugzeug I (Airplane I), 1966


60 cm x 80 cm, Screenprint on lightweight card


Flugzeug II (Airplane II), 1966


51.6 cm x 80.7 cm, Screenprint on lightweight card

gerhard-richter.com

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Paola Pivi

Untitled (Airplane), 1999






Fiat G-91, 118 x 338,6 x 464,6 inches / 300 x 860 x 1180 cm
http://www.perrotin.com/artiste-Paola_Pivi-10.html

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Andy Warhol
“129 Die in Jet,”  1962



Warhol had a lifelong obsession with the sensational side of contemporary news media [...]. A major, yet previously unexplored theme that ran through Warhol's entire career, the headline encompasses many of his key subjects, including celebrity, death, disaster, and current events.
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/warholinfo.shtm

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phlegm
sukhoi su17 jet + phlegm, 2011









phlegmcomicnews.blogspot.co.at