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Nose art. Virgin Atlantic nose art on 'Varga Girl', an Airbus A340-600. This particular nose art is used across Virgin Atlantic's fleet, and is officially named the Flying Lady. [1] Nose art is a decorative painting or design on the fuselage of an aircraft, usually on the front fuselage. While begun for practical reasons of identifying friendly ...
Kilroy was here is a meme [1] that became popular during World War II, typically seen in graffiti. Its origin is debated, but the phrase and the distinctive accompanying doodle became associated with GIs in the 1940s: a bald-headed man (sometimes depicted as having a few hairs) with a prominent nose peeking over a wall with his fingers ...
A nasothek (from the Latin nasus "nose" and Greek θήκη "container") is a collection of sculpted noses. Carlsberg display of restoration noses [ edit ] The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek museum in Copenhagen has a nasothek collection that displays restored noses that were removed from portrait busts and statues after changes in the museum's art ...
Artists at work on a 2014 project in Moscow. Gelitin (stylized in lowercase as gelitin) is a group of four artists from Vienna, Austria. The group was formerly known as Gelatin, and changed their name in 2005. They are known for creating sensational art events in the tradition of Relational Aesthetics, often with a lively sense of humor.
Alberto Vargas. Joaquin Alberto Vargas y Chávez (9 February 1896 – 30 December 1982) was a Peruvian -American painter of pin-up girls. He is often considered one of the most famous of the pin-up artists, and as one of the pioneers of airbrush art. Numerous Vargas paintings have sold and continue to sell for tens of thousands around the world.
An aquiline nose (also called a Roman nose) is a human nose with a prominent bridge, giving it the appearance of being curved or slightly bent. The word aquiline comes from the Latin word aquilinus ("eagle-like"), an allusion to the curved beak of an eagle. [2][3][4] While some have ascribed the aquiline nose to specific ethnic, racial, or ...
Sentimental Journey, close-up of nose art. Chico Air Museum, September 2021. Sentimental Journey (44-83514) is the nickname of a B-17G Flying Fortress bomber. It is based at the Commemorative Air Force Museum in Mesa, Arizona, US. [3] The aircraft is regularly flown to airshows throughout North America. The nose art features Betty Grable, the ...
London Noses. The London Noses or Seven Noses of Soho are an artistic installation found on buildings in London. They are plaster of Paris reproductions of the artist's nose which protrude from walls in an incongruous and unexpected way. They were created by artist Rick Buckley in 1997. Initially, about 35 were attached to buildings such as the ...