Flight of Fancy: Birds and Winged Creatures in Art

BIRMINGHAM, UK.- The Barber Institute presents Flight of Fancy: Birds and Winged Creatures in Art, on view through May 6, 2007. Flight has always fired our imagination and fantasies, and we are in awe of all creatures that can take to the skies. Birds, bats, angels and demons feature in our dreams and nightmares and represent our greatest hopes or fears.

This display, drawn from the Barber collection, explores the human obsession with flight and how it is represented in art from the Italian Renaissance to the twentieth century. It includes prints after Titian and Tintoretto, and by Goya and Max Ernst, and complements the exhibition, The Parrot in Art. (courtesy www.Artdaily.org)