In the aviator medal, is the falling figure "surrounded by stylised rays", or is Milles attempting to represent planes engulfed in flame so trailing smoke, dropping from the sky? Perhaps my view of what the lines represents is informed by modern conception of what these lines could be, rather than the original intention for a medal which was created long before the idea of smoking planes, stalled and dropping out of the sky, was imprinted in the social consciousness through published media like comic books and film.
It is difficult to know what the artist intended, possibly there is a religious meaning. In the center we have a dead young man floating upwards surrounded by rays, possibly these are the lights of the god surrounding the dead young man
In the aviator medal, is the falling figure "surrounded by stylised rays", or is Milles attempting to represent planes engulfed in flame so trailing smoke, dropping from the sky? Perhaps my view of what the lines represents is informed by modern conception of what these lines could be, rather than the original intention for a medal which was created long before the idea of smoking planes, stalled and dropping out of the sky, was imprinted in the social consciousness through published media like comic books and film.
It is difficult to know what the artist intended, possibly there is a religious meaning. In the center we have a dead young man floating upwards surrounded by rays, possibly these are the lights of the god surrounding the dead young man
@@robertodelzanno2515 Thanks for your reply.