Saturday, 11 December 2010
James Rosenquist F 111 1965
A painting of a Supersonic fighter jet plane complete with the graphic images of modern consumerism , a car tyre , tinned spaghetti , and an atomic cloud is simply called F 111 . Painted in 1965 by the American Pop artist James Rosenquist . With its contemporary mixed images the artist is making a comment about the positive and the negative aspects of scientific and human advancement. Rosenquist originally started his career painting billboards , This painting which is 86 feet in length was painted on 4 separate panels ( 2 shown here )
Saturday, 4 December 2010
Colourful Automotive Packaging .
Nowadays if you need a new bulb for your motor cycle or car the packaging in the store will be a functional blister pack complete with bar code . However not so long ago company's were doing their best to grab your attention with bright colours and dramatic illustrated packaging complete with wonderfull names like Splendor, Lumax, and Tiger Lamps. Most of these old bulb and component boxes i have picked up at Auto jumbles like Banbury or Stanford Hall paying only pennies...i do get some strange looks when i inform the stallholder i am only interested in the box !
Vintage Glass Bulbs
Even the contents of the packaging can be quit interesting , with some of the fittings not having been used on vehicles for many years , while the glass spheres themselves take on a charm of thier own ( almost Sci Fi )
Every thing in its place .
A lot of my small finds i keep displayed in an old Printers tray in my work shop, much nicer than being relegated to an old drawer.
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