Aeropittura: EC

All this talk of dynamics and the influence of artistic styles wanted to bring me back to a post I forgot to write while Fascism was a fad I was going through.  I want to go back to the Aeropittura and discuss the influence the plane had on it's style of art.  Below is an image called, 'Nose Dive on the City,' by Tulio Cralli.  Without the emergence of aviation in Italy during this period I don't think that this piece would have ever came to be.  Also, it helps that Mussolini was an avid art enthusiast and an avid aviation lover.  The two mix together to create this masterpiece.  Aviation's effect on the Italian people led to the idolization of the aviator in their culture.  Here, Cralli pays respect to the aviator and the airplanes effect on art by allowing for new views of the world to be seen.  The piece has a cubist aesthetic to it in the form of all the buildings that create that background with a slight sense of dynamic movement.  The image itself allows the viewer to experience the thrill an aviator may get as he nose dives on the city below.  It's quite magnificent to place yourself in the seat of this airplane as, historically, you get to experience the greatest engineering features of the time.  The skyscraper, the modern city, and the airplane are all wrapped up in this painting in artistic fashion.  Aeropittura was born through the plane and here we get a first hand view at why. 

'Nose Dive on the City'