This work is not drawn by hand, but is rather a collage made by pasting together images cut from three sources. The base is a photograph of a World War I military plane in front of a hangar. A picture of three angels looking out of a window is pasted on the nose of the plane, and a picture of a swan is on the lawn on the right.
In 1918, the artist Max Ernst returned to his home in Cologne from the battlefields of World War I, the site of the first mechanized mass killing in history. Surrounding himself with likeminded friends, he became the center of the anti-art Dada movement, protesting against the civilization that had led the world to war. Both printed matter and military aircraft were products of that same civilization. But now neither these angels nor this plane will ever fly again. In Ernst’s collage, the original subject matter loses its natural identity and transforms into something else.
(NAKAMURA Naoaki)
This work is not drawn by hand, but is rather a collage made by pasting together images cut from three sources. The base is a photograph of a World War I military plane in front of a hangar. A picture of three angels looking out of a window is pasted on the nose of the plane, and a picture of a swan is on the lawn on the right.
In 1918, the artist Max Ernst returned to his home in Cologne from the battlefields of World War I, the site of the first mechanized mass killing in history. Surrounding himself with likeminded friends, he became the center of the anti-art Dada movement, protesting against the civilization that had led the world to war. Both printed matter and military aircraft were products of that same civilization. But now neither these angels nor this plane will ever fly again. In Ernst’s collage, the original subject matter loses its natural identity and transforms into something else.
(NAKAMURA Naoaki)