Crane in the Art

The crane in the Art

The crane, as a means of lifting,

has not failed to inspire artists, especially from the 60s onwards, when it was idealized as a creative item for the human habitat, or to realize architectural ideas.
Someone has created a show illuminating color cranes of a port …

… Those who wanted to emphasize the slender lines …

… Those who use it to add a further disturbing element in a gloomy and anguished atmosphere  ….

… Or those who merely use its refined lines in isometric construction of an urban setting.

But do not forget that the mechanical crane takes its name from the bird with long legs who, having decorated the Cretan vessels, is found in Chinese painting of the Ming period …

… in the traditional silk …

… or in the Japanese painting on a wooden way of “tabula picta” ..

The novella of Boccaccio “Chicchibio and the Crane”

has inspired many of era illustrators …

it is also in the tales

… But also in more recent times this bird was the subject of artistic transpositions more or less successful …

… and also origami, that some rise in the art level … ..

… or sculptural works such as cranes in bronze of this fountain

… But there  are also those who, no special artistic ambitions of these tools and animals, they only play with the crane cars in miniature or collecting them …

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