Year 1920 Location Private collection Created 1920 Period Surrealism | Type Collage Media Collage | |
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Dimensions 6.35 cm × 13.97 cm ( 2 ⁄2 in × 5 ⁄2 in) Max Ernst artwork Trophy - Hypertrophied, The Hat Makes the Man, Forest and Dove, Pietà or Revolution by Night, Aquis Submersus | ||
Animated artwork murdering airplane by max ernst
Murdering Airplane (1920) is a collage by the German dadaist Max Ernst. It depicts a monstrous aircraft with human arms flying over an open field. In the lower right-hand corner two soldiers are carrying a third wounded soldier.
The Dada movement was created partly as a critical response to World War I. This had a special significance to Ernst who served in the war. This work was a statement on the advent of aerial warfare that occurred in that war.
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