Nike And Flying Fish Analysis
Nike and Flying Fish
Nike and Flying Fish is a 1998 artwork fathered by Ke Francis ;an art teacher, owner of Hoop snake Press, and manager of the university of central Florida’ publishing company, Flying Horse Press. A layered style supports the arrangement of items painted. “A rabbit trap layered under a funnel with a flying fish that’s face to face with a drawn image of Nike, the Winged Victory of Samothrace, a Greek pagan goddess. Francis’s work is a seventy-two and a forth by seventy-eight and an eight canvas with acrylic based paint.” (MMFA) He signed his work at the bottom right corner. At this moment Nike and Flying fish resides in the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts’ permanent collection.
Ke Francis was born in 1945 and raised in Tupelo, Mississippi. As he grew older he migrated to Orlando, Florida were he soon became an art professor at the University of Central Florida. Now Francis is the manager of Flying Horse Press, Central Florida’s publishing company and teaches many classes of art at the University of Central Florida. “Not only does he paint and print books, he also writes fictional stories that incorporate images from an artist’s book.” Francis is known for his humorous approach in his artwork. The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts web page quotes Francis, “you are supposed to enjoy the moment…, you don’t need to dwell on how the …show more content…
visual image got there or where it’s going later.” (MMFA)
Ke Francis’s Nike and Flying Fish overlapping of objects was inspired by Stuart Davis and his art work, Steeple Street. Steeple Street has dark clouds in the back ground with a tower top with a steeple and random designs and shapes in-between these two main focal points. As another layered painting one can guess that like Nike and Flying Fish, Steeple Street is layered in a way that would tell story of how each piece falls into place, even if the object does not have any meaning. “It still adds meaning to the story Davis is telling with his paint brush. Francis’s Reconstruction Vision is another layered painting of random items.” (Stuart Davis) Only in this painting, the objects have a common subject between one another. A hammer as the top piece followed by a tape measure and a screwdriver with aging a representation of energy but this time lines are used instead of the swirls used in Nike and Flying Fish. A common point that Francis repeatedly incorporates is the flow of energy through time and space.
Nike the Greek goddess of victory is one of the main focus points in Francis’s work. Nike’s features are similar to that of an angle. She has wings with feathers like a bird and glows as if the sun is always behind her. Nike in Greek is Nice. Nice was either depicted as Athena’s right hand or plural as Nikia. Francis including Nike in the painting could represent hope, as she brought hope of victory to Greek warriors in there many trials and tribulations.
“Exocetidae is a family of marine fish that are called flying fish.
Flying fish are thought to evolved the ability to jump out of water and glide through the air as an escape method from predators.” (Flying Fish) Many river dwelling communities consider exocetidae or flying fish to be angles of the water and a warning that danger is hidden in the dark depths of the water. Flying fish are attracted to light and shining objects they see from the water. . Francis placing Nike and a flying fish face to face can make one assume that light attracting flying fish is the same attraction Greek pagans have to the goddess
Nike.
Francis including a funnel in his art work is somewhat strange. Yet with everything that coexist with it in this art piece it makes since. “A funnel defined by thefreedictionary.com, is a conical utensil having a small hole or narrow tube at the apex and used to channel the flow of a substance, as into a small-mouthed container.” (Funnel)“The waves in the back ground representing energy flowing and the funnel could represent that energy can be redirected from one point in time and space to another point. “ (MMFA)
The bottom of Francis’s layered painting Nike and Flying Fish is made up of a rabbit trap. Including a rabbit trap in this work of art can be assumed that trapped energy can be a good thing, but is still not like the endless flow of energy that can be sent through a funnel or expelling from a goddess. Others believe that Ke Francis included the rabbit trap as a way of showing how energy can be slowed by objects that get in its way.
Francis represents flowing energy by placing swirls as his back ground on Nike and Flying fish. The swirls appear to be equally spaced from one another, appearing to show balance between difference flows of energy. Swirls instead of lines or curves show endless fields of energy not lines that are in certain areas. Covering great areas in a circular motion can keep the same strand of energy in the same spot for more than one period in time and thus creating balanced particles that are compatible with other energy particles that have been through the same process as a person’s energy.
Despite the works title energy is the main focal point of Ke Francis’s Nike and Flying Fish. Energy has many different forms, from people to inanimate objects. Without the flow of energy the world would go into chaos. Two types of energy exist in the world. The energy that drives salvation of earth, and the energy that wishes to see earth’s destruction. As long as each type of energy balances with one another, harmony can be achieved between the two and can keep the earth together and alive.
Nike and Flying Fish painting that tells a story of how each individual item painted flows with one another. Each piece painted has great meaning to the artist, Ke Francis. It is safe to assume that Ke Francis has to have energy flow for him to function in his everyday life. All the items added are objects and things that use great amounts of energy. Keeping energy flowing with energy that surrounds it can help one’s life easier and less stressful than that of one who keeps there flow of energy entangled and out of order.
Work Cited
1. "Flying Fish." National Geographic. 21 Nov. 2013 .
2. "Funnel." The Free Dictionary. Farlex. 21 Nov. 2013 .
3. "MMFA - Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts." Search the Collection. 21 Nov. 2013 .
4. "Stuart Davis - MMFA Docent Volunteers." MMFA Docent Volunteers. 05 Dec. 2013 .
Nike and Flying Fish is a 1998 artwork fathered by Ke Francis ;an art teacher, owner of Hoop snake Press, and manager of the university of central Florida’ publishing company, Flying Horse Press. A layered style supports the arrangement of items painted. “A rabbit trap layered under a funnel with a flying fish that’s face to face with a drawn image of Nike, the Winged Victory of Samothrace, a Greek pagan goddess. Francis’s work is a seventy-two and a forth by seventy-eight and an eight canvas with acrylic based paint.” (MMFA) He signed his work at the bottom right corner. At this moment Nike and Flying fish resides in the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts’ permanent collection.
Ke Francis was born in 1945 and raised in Tupelo, Mississippi. As he grew older he migrated to Orlando, Florida were he soon became an art professor at the University of Central Florida. Now Francis is the manager of Flying Horse Press, Central Florida’s publishing company and teaches many classes of art at the University of Central Florida. “Not only does he paint and print books, he also writes fictional stories that incorporate images from an artist’s book.” Francis is known for his humorous approach in his artwork. The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts web page quotes Francis, “you are supposed to enjoy the moment…, you don’t need to dwell on how the …show more content…
visual image got there or where it’s going later.” (MMFA)
Ke Francis’s Nike and Flying Fish overlapping of objects was inspired by Stuart Davis and his art work, Steeple Street. Steeple Street has dark clouds in the back ground with a tower top with a steeple and random designs and shapes in-between these two main focal points. As another layered painting one can guess that like Nike and Flying Fish, Steeple Street is layered in a way that would tell story of how each piece falls into place, even if the object does not have any meaning. “It still adds meaning to the story Davis is telling with his paint brush. Francis’s Reconstruction Vision is another layered painting of random items.” (Stuart Davis) Only in this painting, the objects have a common subject between one another. A hammer as the top piece followed by a tape measure and a screwdriver with aging a representation of energy but this time lines are used instead of the swirls used in Nike and Flying Fish. A common point that Francis repeatedly incorporates is the flow of energy through time and space.
Nike the Greek goddess of victory is one of the main focus points in Francis’s work. Nike’s features are similar to that of an angle. She has wings with feathers like a bird and glows as if the sun is always behind her. Nike in Greek is Nice. Nice was either depicted as Athena’s right hand or plural as Nikia. Francis including Nike in the painting could represent hope, as she brought hope of victory to Greek warriors in there many trials and tribulations.
“Exocetidae is a family of marine fish that are called flying fish.
Flying fish are thought to evolved the ability to jump out of water and glide through the air as an escape method from predators.” (Flying Fish) Many river dwelling communities consider exocetidae or flying fish to be angles of the water and a warning that danger is hidden in the dark depths of the water. Flying fish are attracted to light and shining objects they see from the water. . Francis placing Nike and a flying fish face to face can make one assume that light attracting flying fish is the same attraction Greek pagans have to the goddess
Nike.
Francis including a funnel in his art work is somewhat strange. Yet with everything that coexist with it in this art piece it makes since. “A funnel defined by thefreedictionary.com, is a conical utensil having a small hole or narrow tube at the apex and used to channel the flow of a substance, as into a small-mouthed container.” (Funnel)“The waves in the back ground representing energy flowing and the funnel could represent that energy can be redirected from one point in time and space to another point. “ (MMFA)
The bottom of Francis’s layered painting Nike and Flying Fish is made up of a rabbit trap. Including a rabbit trap in this work of art can be assumed that trapped energy can be a good thing, but is still not like the endless flow of energy that can be sent through a funnel or expelling from a goddess. Others believe that Ke Francis included the rabbit trap as a way of showing how energy can be slowed by objects that get in its way.
Francis represents flowing energy by placing swirls as his back ground on Nike and Flying fish. The swirls appear to be equally spaced from one another, appearing to show balance between difference flows of energy. Swirls instead of lines or curves show endless fields of energy not lines that are in certain areas. Covering great areas in a circular motion can keep the same strand of energy in the same spot for more than one period in time and thus creating balanced particles that are compatible with other energy particles that have been through the same process as a person’s energy.
Despite the works title energy is the main focal point of Ke Francis’s Nike and Flying Fish. Energy has many different forms, from people to inanimate objects. Without the flow of energy the world would go into chaos. Two types of energy exist in the world. The energy that drives salvation of earth, and the energy that wishes to see earth’s destruction. As long as each type of energy balances with one another, harmony can be achieved between the two and can keep the earth together and alive.
Nike and Flying Fish painting that tells a story of how each individual item painted flows with one another. Each piece painted has great meaning to the artist, Ke Francis. It is safe to assume that Ke Francis has to have energy flow for him to function in his everyday life. All the items added are objects and things that use great amounts of energy. Keeping energy flowing with energy that surrounds it can help one’s life easier and less stressful than that of one who keeps there flow of energy entangled and out of order.
Work Cited
1. "Flying Fish." National Geographic. 21 Nov. 2013 .
2. "Funnel." The Free Dictionary. Farlex. 21 Nov. 2013 .
3. "MMFA - Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts." Search the Collection. 21 Nov. 2013 .
4. "Stuart Davis - MMFA Docent Volunteers." MMFA Docent Volunteers. 05 Dec. 2013 .