Aeropittura

アエロピットゥーラ / 1929–1939 / Style / Italian Avant-garde

The late development of Italian Futurism, which declared the view from an aircraft to be the condition of painting. Plunging perspective, whirling cloud and an earth that turns over fix the sensation of speed and altitude on the canvas. A rare case of a style made out of the height of the viewpoint.

Aeropittura — Aeropittura work by Tato — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain — Aeropittura work by Tato — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain

Aeropittura — Aeropittura by Fillia, 1932 — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 · © Francesco Bini — Aeropittura by Fillia, 1932 — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · © Francesco Bini

Aeropittura — Tullio Crali, Before the Parachute Opens — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain — Tullio Crali, Before the Parachute Opens — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain

At a glance

Visual cues

Plunging perspective
Whirling cloud and atmosphere
Ground inverted and rotating
Colour suggesting metallic sheen

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Aviation, aerospace and mobility work where the brief is the sensation of flight rather than the machine that produces it
Title sequences and transitions built on a diving, rolling camera, for which this painting is effectively a storyboard

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Dictionary entry

Type: Letters shrunk along the perspective and tilted together with the ground
Composition: Set the horizon tilted or overturned and run the vortex through the centre
Material: Cool colours keyed to a metallic sheen, with streaks of cloud white through them
Caution: Simply photographing a landscape from above: the style is not the aerial view but the body's disorientation within it, which requires the horizon to be taken away.
Further study: The manifesto of Aeropittura of 1929 / The question of its distance from the regime / Its relation to aerial photography

Related entries

Italian Futurism (イタリア未来派)Shared effects: Exhilaration / Futurity.Compare Aeropittura and Italian Futurism
Rayonism (レイヨニスム)Shared effects: Technique / Exhilaration.Compare Aeropittura and Rayonism

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