model aircraft in art?

[ericr]

And a Tornado, and a Komet, and a couple of tanky thingies, WOW! That is bizarre! 

ah yes, right, there is quite a density of detail : maybe even more are out there ... 

[pyro-manic]

The MOD have been using a couple for the last few years! And Lebanon have four still officially in service.

The MoD ones are civvie owned and flown AFAIK so aren't really 'operational'. I didn't know about the Lebanese ones though, thanks.

They've got military serials though, so I think they count. IIRC FRADU and the like are civvie pilots too, though the Hawks themselves are still Navy-owned.

[rickshaw]

Somebody please show her a copy of Jane's All the World's Aircraft - she'll be devastated.......

she seems to have quite a collection of them  :

Having them and actually reading them are two completely different things.  I remember when I was old enough to borrow copies from the then State Library in Adelaide (when they used to have a lending service).  I was in seventh heaven. 

good question 
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[Mossie]

I've seen something similar before.  An old S-58 was mounted upside down which supposedly turned it into art. 

thanks for sharing the link; there's no obligation to like it anyway.

A nearly useful variation can be seen here though :
http://gizmodo.com/5915136/an-upside-down-helicopter-makes-for-one-bad+donkey-ceiling-fan

Hmmm, I'd say this kind of art 'ammuses' me!  My opinion is that most modern artists are practical jokers.  They deserve credit for constantly getting away with it!   I'm in the wrong business, people get very rich off the back of it, I'm sure I can find a quirky way to mount my models, it'll sure help thin the stash!

I'm in the old skool, I think that artists should be talented individuals.  Hanging a few plastics aeroplanes on a tree or mounting a Harrier isn't a talent, anyone with a City and Guilds qualification can do that.  I guess the talent comes in convincing gullible rich people that it's worth parting with the hard earned!  I'm cynical, there's no harm in it and if people enjoy it then it's not a bad thing.

[Spey_Phantom]

apparently, this is also art (shame of the aircraft thought)

[jcf]

Leon Ferrari's Western Christian Civilization from 1965.

Amusingly the 'real' FH-107, F-105D s/n 61-0107, survives to this day mounted on a pole. 

[dumaniac]

The JC one is very thought provoking - interesting pics - thanks

[ericr]

thanks for all contributions!
most concern the use of *real* aircraft in some kind of art, though, whereas I was looking for usages of *models* ...

well, both interest me anyway.

On the aircraft transformation side Ithere is Abdessemed : http://c-monster.net/blog1/2009/05/08/flying-2/

which looks a bit like :

[ericr]

here is painting *on* aircraft :
http://inhabitat.com/the-bone-yard-project-enlivens-derelict-military-aircraft-with-street-art/eric-firestone-boneyard-project-painted-airplane-nunca-front-4/

[PR19_Kit]

here is painting *on* aircraft :
http://inhabitat.com/the-bone-yard-project-enlivens-derelict-military-aircraft-with-street-art/eric-firestone-boneyard-project-painted-airplane-nunca-front-4/

Interesting background too! There's a rather drunken Harrier (an AV-8A?) a Guardian firebomber and one of the Boeing YC-14s there too!

[ericr]

to resurrect this thread, I'll just post a link to my own modest contribution in terms of exhibition of a collection of seaplane models in red-yellow-blue (not really meant as art in the beginning, but well, it does have an esthetic motivation)

http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,37688.0.html

[NARSES2]

Actually this thread has given me an idea. Maybe we should put forward a model for the 4th Plinth in Trafalgar Square ? 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_plinth,_Trafalgar_Square

[Dizzyfugu]

apparently, this is also art (shame of the aircraft thought)

I think something similar was done with a SEPECAT Jaguar XZ118 in London, stripped off of any paint, at the Tate Britain Modern Art Museum - just without sheep...





And at the same place, a Sea Harrier was "displayed", by the same artist(?), Fiona Banner.

[PR19_Kit]

I'm afraid that sort of 'art' doesn't impress me in the slightest. Aircraft are meant to be either flying or about to fly and having them on display in effectively 'crashed' situations does nothing for me and calls the artist's motives into question. 

[Logan Hartke]

calls the artist's motives into question. 

I don't think the motives of these particular artists was ever a matter of debate in that regard.

Cheers,

Logan