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.
Plunging perspective / Whirling cloud and atmosphere / Ground inverted and rotating / Colour suggesting metallic sheen
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- 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
- Type
- Italic capitals following the arc of the dive, tracked wider as they recede.
- Composition
- A horizon tilted well past forty-five degrees, the ground curving away and the vanishing point pushed outside the frame.
- Material
- Metallic and pearlescent finishes, or gradients keyed to chrome and cloud, so the surface shifts as the viewer moves.
- 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