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Murdering Airplane

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Year
  
1920

Location
  
Private collection

Created
  
1920

Period
  
Surrealism

Type
  
Collage

Artist
  
Max Ernst

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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Murdering Airplane Wikipedia