Shared Experience: Wrecked Lodestar
Thake was interested in the technology of war and its aftermath, particularly crashed and abandoned aircraft, bombed buildings, and deserted camps. Surrealism was the means by which he could explore these themes in his art. A graphic artist by training, he was able to simplify the forms of the machines; his aircraft, as here for example, have turned into desiccated insects sitting derelict in the landscape, their interiors exposed to the elements.
Paintings
- Bomber crew
Stella Bowen - Battlefield burial of three NCOs
Ivor Hele - Tragic Landscape
Alex Colville - Japanese dead from suicide raid, Labuan
Donald Friend - A Child Bomb-Victim Receiving Penecillin Treatment
Ethel Gabain - Natives carrying wounded
Sali Herman - A Saline Bath, RAF Hospital
A.R. Thomson - Face Burns, Sgt James F. Gourley, RAF, 536215
Charles Goldhamer - Bombed Out
Will Ogilvie - Wrecked Lodestar
Eric Thake - Bomber crash
Frank Hinder