Warcraft

Painting

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Calvin University Center Art Gallery

The image depicts a surreal scene where a blue airplane is flying through a complex pattern of floating, beige rectangular shapes against a dark background, creating an optical illusion with its intricate design, blending the dimensions of reality and imagination.

The image depicts a surreal scene where a blue airplane is flying through a complex pattern of floating, beige rectangular shapes against a dark background, creating an optical illusion with its intricate design, blending the dimensions of reality and imagination.

Name/Title

Warcraft

Entry/Object ID

2002.7.2

Description

A blue airplane amongst black illusionistic background of boxes and rectangles that appear to be behind and in front of the plane.

Artwork Details

Medium

Acrylic on Paper

Category

Vault, Vehicle, Design/Pattern/Shape

Made/Created

Artist

Cedar Nordbye

Date made

2002

Dimensions

Dimension Description

image size

Height

21-1/2 in

Width

27-3/8 in

Dimension Description

frame size

Height

25-1/8 in

Width

31-1/8 in

General Notes

Note

Expanded Wall Label: Since 1997, Cedar Nordbye has utilize the image of a passenger jet in his artwork. As a Jew, fascination with the airplane has centered with its use as a tool of the Diaspora (the dispersal of Jewish peoples around the world) and of Muslim pilgrimages. Growing up in the 1970s a period of political upheaval, he was also deeply influenced by the manipulation of passenger jets by hijackers. After September 11, 2001, he stopped using the image, only to return to it six months later to create this piece, which illustrates the new associations and meanings that thoroughly ensnare the visual image of the passenger jet.