Afghan War_Song of a Russian Black Tulip Pilot(with english subtitles)
Black Tulip-this is plane An-12 or IL-76,which transported our Cargo-200(KIA) or Cargo-300(wounded) to the Soviet Union from Afghan.
Review: Gaylen Hansen show of new works at Linda Hodges Gallery
In recent paintings by Gaylen Hansen, one of the greatest living Northwest painters (and, in his late 80s, one of the oldest), you'll see many of his recurring figures: a cowboy (named "The Kernal"), wolflike dogs, tulips, gloves, and ... ducks. And while it's very tempting to psychoanalyze these characters, sometimes a duck is just a duck, or perhaps even less ... an accumulation of brush strokes that become a figure that rests in a certain place on the canvas.
For decades, viewers have been beguiled by Hansen's paintings, which combine edgy expressionism with stylized, almost caricaturized, figures. But the artist has insisted that formal issues — recently, figure/ground relationships — are his primary interests. When highlighting salient elements in "Two Ducks and One Black Glove" (2009), the artist pointed out that one of the ducks stands on a kind of horizon line, while the other stands on the glove, just above the line.
You can imagine how this subtle difference amused the artist in his Eastern Washington studio, but it's true: the shift in placement makes the animals exist on slightly different planes and gently tweaks our perception of the space within the painting. And the glove? Well, Hansen often includes them, playing up the qualities that are both stiff and plump. The glove becomes a still-life object in the center of the painting; the green colors echo the green on the ducks' heads and the glove's yellow stitchery picks up the vast yellows of the background and provides gentle directional forces, leading the eye up and over to the left.
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