ID some art

December 31, 2004 2:47 PM

Trying to identify two things. The first is an image. I think it was a drawing, though it might've been a manipulated photograph. Innumerable warplanes (bombers) crowd the sky, flying (I think) to the left. Some people on the ground are also evident, if I recall correctly. The second is a rather famous work by a prominent artist whose name escapes me. He cast his body, I think in bronze, and welded tremendously broad wings resembling an airplane's onto the sides. The title has something to do with angels.
posted by ori to media & arts (6 comments total)

#2. Gormley's Angel?
posted by jessamyn at 2:57 PM on December 31, 2004

Thanks jessamyn! The image I had in my head was actually of Gormley's Case for an Angel, a smaller version of the one you posted -- at any rate. Thanks for helping me identify the artist!
posted by ori at 3:21 PM on December 31, 2004

#1 - Something from the Pink Floyd movie 'The Wall' - such as
posted by azlondon at 6:18 PM on December 31, 2004

Sorry, link busted - example is here.
posted by azlondon at 6:21 PM on December 31, 2004

Having grown up in North East England, the Angel of the North (as it's known) isn't near as big as you imagine it to be, from the pictures. It is, however, prominently situated close to a busy motorway, and very, very cool to behold, especially silhouetted against a dusk sky.

A lot of the residents of Gateshead (the town in which it stands) complained of the rust colour of the Angel, rather than a nice, shiny chrome effect thing. I think they're missing the point.
posted by armoured-ant at 8:16 PM on December 31, 2004

Long shot, but your first description made me think of the Pearl Harbor movie posters.
posted by rafter at 3:05 PM on January 1, 2005