Acrobatics in Heaven

Mediums: board, oil.
Location: The center of the arts (Milan, Italy).

Tullio Crali admired cars, trains and other cars, like other Futurists, but only a plane became a real ideal for the artist; he painted it more than a dozen times. According to the painter himself, the plane was a machine that “realized the myth of Icarus, the omnipresent dream of people about the sky”. In “Acrobatics in Heaven”, airplanes are flat two-dimensional figures on an abstract bright blue background. They whirl and roll over in the sky, cutting airspace and tearing clouds into small shreds. The sensation of speed, danger and at the same time the admiration for flying shines through in clear straight lines that emphasize the direction of movement and in bright colour accents on the propellers and wings of the aircraft.