Post by pooka on Jun 24, 2017 9:00:29 GMT -5
It appears to be an original water color. I don't know if it's someone local, or if they're a known or noted name. I'm not sure what that signature says.
It's one of my most enigmatic pieces. It's obviously airplanes, most likely P-51 Mustangs, but beyond that, it has images I just don't get. It appears to be looking across a formation of plane. At the bottom, I think that's a pilot in the the cockpit with a cheesy mustache. Behind him is a bald headed face tilted upward. Maybe It's Churchill. Maybe it's ''Il Duce'', Mussolini. I'm unsure. Behind him is an ominous half smiling face. I just don't quite understand what I'm seeing. If I knew the context, I might understand the imagery better. It's subtle use of red, white & blue might have a suggested meaning. For now it's somewhat of a mystery.
Forgive this next graphic image, but it seems to mirror the one in the painting. The Description says,
Giulino di Mezzegra/Italy, April 28, 1945. After communist Italian partisans captivated Benizo Mussolini and his concubine Clara Petacci both are shot according to martial law after a sweeping trial. It's told that ''Claretta'' tried to protect Mussolini from the bullets with her own body. The bodies were brought to Milan the next day, violated and hanged upside down as a public display.
Perhaps this piece is a comment on the fall of Mussolini. I'm just confused. Is that ominous half smiling face divine providence looking down on the fallen ''Il Duce''? For students of history, we know all tyrants fall in time. Some in exile, most reach a violent end.
It's one of my most enigmatic pieces. It's obviously airplanes, most likely P-51 Mustangs, but beyond that, it has images I just don't get. It appears to be looking across a formation of plane. At the bottom, I think that's a pilot in the the cockpit with a cheesy mustache. Behind him is a bald headed face tilted upward. Maybe It's Churchill. Maybe it's ''Il Duce'', Mussolini. I'm unsure. Behind him is an ominous half smiling face. I just don't quite understand what I'm seeing. If I knew the context, I might understand the imagery better. It's subtle use of red, white & blue might have a suggested meaning. For now it's somewhat of a mystery.
Forgive this next graphic image, but it seems to mirror the one in the painting. The Description says,
Giulino di Mezzegra/Italy, April 28, 1945. After communist Italian partisans captivated Benizo Mussolini and his concubine Clara Petacci both are shot according to martial law after a sweeping trial. It's told that ''Claretta'' tried to protect Mussolini from the bullets with her own body. The bodies were brought to Milan the next day, violated and hanged upside down as a public display.
Perhaps this piece is a comment on the fall of Mussolini. I'm just confused. Is that ominous half smiling face divine providence looking down on the fallen ''Il Duce''? For students of history, we know all tyrants fall in time. Some in exile, most reach a violent end.