Transportation in Modern Art
"You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself."
~Milan Kundera
~Milan Kundera
Moon Chasers Two
by: Linda Herzog
2006
Oil on Canvas
by: Linda Herzog
2006
Oil on Canvas
In Moon Chaser Too, Herzog depicts a fanatica form of transportation using a pufferfish, a seahorse, and a butterfly. This concept of fauvism is filled with imagination and includes the idea of transportation by air through sealife life. The concept is tied together with bright colors, the pure blue sky allows the yellow pufferfish to really pop off of the canvas.
Arrival of the Flower Ship
by: Vladimir Kush
2001
Giclee on canvas
by: Vladimir Kush
2001
Giclee on canvas
Kush paints with pure imagination. This idea of a tiny world with shops of flowers and small people on leaf rafts dominates the page. The still, glistening waters and picture perfect clouds contribute to this idea of an Utopian Society. The bright ship of flowers and smaller leaf rafts all demonstrate this idea of transportation. This is a clear demonstration of surrealism.
"Attack At Dawn"
by: Jacek Yerka
1989
Acrylic on canvas
by: Jacek Yerka
1989
Acrylic on canvas
In this painting Yerka depicts this reptilian vehicle overlooking a vast valley. Once again we see this idea of surrealism and imagination coming in to play. The idea of an automobile made out of an animal. Planes come zooming in from the distance that also look some what fanatical. We get this completely unrealistic form of transportation, yet Yerka makes it believable and almost touchable;e in his hazy outlooking depiction.