Artwork Featuring Hats

[Kuki]

I love this portrait of a painter named Joaquim Vayreda i Vila, done by painter Antoni Caba in 1870.

 

[mmbarnes]

Pretty neat one by a contemporary artist Fabian Perez...

 

[Zombie_61]

Pretty neat one by a contemporary artist Fabian Perez... View attachment 63290

Art noir. I like it. By the way, according to the artist's website this one is called "Enjoying the pleasure of the night".

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Espresso Saloon by Jeff Leedy

BB, Check out those boots!

 

[Bamaboots]

Espresso Saloon by Jeff Leedy

BB, Check out those boots!

I love this!

 

[Bigger Don]

At 10:35 AM on December 17, 1903, two sons of a preacher man from my home town availed themselves of the winds of Kitty Hawk, NC, to prove that man could fly. There are a few things around town here that celebrate the world's first aeronautical engineers. Here are the most prominent.

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There are a few of these benches around town. This one is located at Woodland Cemetery, where Orville and Wilbur are buried.

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This is located at Deeds Point downtown. Wilbur, on the right, is demonstrating how "wing warping" was conceived. An idea he got from playing with a model airplane box while working in their bicycle shop/lab in West Dayton.

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Recreation of the historic First Flight photograph. Also downtown.

This is my favorite because it reflects the relatively short accomplishment, in time and distance, when considered from 100+ years later. When I first saw it I thought of the Wright brothers biography I read as a child. After the flight in Kitty Hawk the author described how the Wrights continued their work, to the point that flights were not uncommon up on Huffman Prairie. (For those not from around Funky Town, that was the outskirts of Dayton.

Artist David Black’s “Flyover” sculpture sits in the middle of downtown Dayton on Main Street between Fourth and Fifth Streets. The abstract sculpture is a recreation of the Wright Brothers’ first 12-second flight. The curve matches the actual flight path, and there is a set of wings representing each second of the Dayton natives’ flight. Photo: DREW SIMON / STAFF
http://www.dayton.com/what-to-love/must-see-public-art-dayton/

 

[Frunobulax]

This is my favorite because it reflects the relatively short accomplishment, in time and distance, when considered from 100+ years later. When I first saw it I thought of the Wright brothers biography I read as a child. After the flight in Kitty Hawk the author described how the Wrights continued their work, to the point that flights were not uncommon up on Huffman Prairie. (For those not from around Funky Town, that was the outskirts of Dayton.

Artist David Black’s “Flyover” sculpture sits in the middle of downtown Dayton on Main Street between Fourth and Fifth Streets. The abstract sculpture is a recreation of the Wright Brothers’ first 12-second flight. The curve matches the actual flight path, and there is a set of wings representing each second of the Dayton natives’ flight. Photo: DREW SIMON / STAFF
http://www.dayton.com/what-to-love/must-see-public-art-dayton/

If you hit the angle just right, it seems to "move" while you're driving along Main Street. Although when erected, we made fun of it as a rejected King's Island ride.


Huffman Prairie, where the Wrights truly learned and perfected the art of flying, is on Wright-Patterson AFB, but is accessible to the public. As is the Wright Memorial and Education Center. I highly recommend seeing them if you like aircraft at all. And who doesn't think flying is cool?

 

[Bigger Don]

we made fun of it as a rejected King's Island ride.

Not a revitalization of Fantasy Farm or Lesourdsville? Perhaps moving the "riots" of Russells Point to a more convenient location?

Wright Memorial and Education Center

Not sure where that is. When we first moved to the Dayton area we went to the Carillon Museum which had one of the early Wright flyers. Of course, there's the USAF museum, where you, too, can see a plane that I touched and helped maintain. Last, and hardly least, on this list of Dayton's continued appreciation of the bicycle makers is the Wright B flyer at Dayton-Wright Brothers Airport (aka Miamisburg/Springboro International).

 

[Frunobulax]

Not a revitalization of Fantasy Farm or Lesourdsville? Perhaps moving the "riots" of Russells Point to a more convenient location?

Not sure where that is. When we first moved to the Dayton area we went to the Carillon Museum which had one of the early Wright flyers. Of course, there's the USAF museum, where you, too, can see a plane that I touched and helped maintain. Last, and hardly least, on this list of Dayton's continued appreciation of the bicycle makers is the Wright B flyer at Dayton-Wright Brothers Airport (aka Miamisburg/Springboro International).

The Memorial is off Kauffman Rd. near Rt. 4, up on the hill.


Sent directly from my mind to yours.

 

[Bigger Don]

The Memorial is off Kauffman Rd. near Rt. 4, up on the hill.


Sent directly from my mind to yours.

I knew there was a memorial there, but not an educational center.

 

[Frunobulax]

I knew there was a memorial there, but not an educational center.

They got it built and active in time for the 100th anniversary in '03. It's pretty nice.

And the Rangers wear cool hats.


Sent directly from my mind to yours.

 

[Bigger Don]

And the Rangers wear cool hats.

Whew! Glad you brought that up before some grousing Gus starts complaining about this being hijacked into a "first flight you took" thread.

 

[mmbarnes]

Intriguing image c. 1660 by Michael Sweerts of a man with a skull and one heck of a large-brimmed old world hat. It is thought to be a self-portrait.

From a website:

"When Alfred Bader acquired the painting in 1968, the skull had been painted out. A previous owner obviously thought it too crude, but the skull’s omission left the man’s pointing finger without aim or purpose. This is a theatrical painting and although it was not unusual for 17th century painters to portray themselves with a skull, Sweerts takes it a step further: the man does not only point at it but inserts his finger in the nasal cavity, giving the painting a dramatic tension and mystery that lends an unusual twist to such a time-honoured vanitas symbol.

Michael Sweerts looks straight at us while he emphatically draws our attention to the skull. We are torn between it and his intense gaze. It makes us feel somewhat uncomfortable but at the same time it intrigues and pulls us irrevocably into the painting. He opens his mouth as if to speak to us but we hear no sound."

 

[Zombie_61]

"...He opens his mouth as if to speak to us but we hear no sound."

It looks to me like he's saying, "Uhhh, why, exactly, am I putting my finger in it's nose?"

 

[mmbarnes]

Heck... I don't know if this qualities... I started with Edvard Munch's 1892 work "Despair" and played around with it for a little bit using my photo and a number of different editing tools. The result is a self-portrait in "Despair".

 

[mmbarnes]

It looks to me like he's saying, "Uhhh, why, exactly, am I putting my finger in it's nose?"

Ha!

"You can pick your skull and you can pick your..."

You get the idea.[emoji12]

 

[Hurricane Jack]

James Joyce (1882 - 1942)

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Two young boys smoking cigars. Reminds me of when I was 11-12 yrs old.

 

[BobHufford]

Two young boys smoking cigars. Reminds me of when I was 11-12 yrs old.

Because of the clothing?

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Because of the clothing?

LOL! Maybe if you change the hats to cowboy hats & the cigars to grapevines. Throw a couple of empty Colt Malt Liquor cans around on the ground. Some empty Redman Loose Leaf or Beachnut pouches down too.