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…
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 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…
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