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Flight and the Artistic Imagination
Opens: 29/06/2012 Closes: 30/09/2012
Compton Verney, Warwickshire
Us humans have always been fascinated by aviation. This exhibition tracks that preoccupation as our ability to fly has morphed from an unattainable dream to an everyday reality. With works by artists from Da Vinci to Nash, it shows how we've fallen from and conquered the skies, and offers a truly varied and rather unique path through the last five centuries.
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Financial Times“An exhilarating prophesy...” Frustrated and earthbound humans have always envied the ability of birds to soar through the air. The notion of travelling at speed, far above the ground, excited artists long before plane flights became commonplace.
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The Telegraph“They realise that something miraculous is about to happen...” Real-life flying may be a terrible disappointment, but art can still carry us back to that unbelievable moment when we first saw the ground fall away beneath us.
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Guardian“The threat was always part of the thrill...” The exhibition begins ominously with Icarus, including a ravishing paper cut by Matisse, and ends with Downed, a blood-red crashed fighter plane made from women's jumpers...
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