BEAUTY: Painting--Joel Rea

Australian artist Joel Rea paints in a very realistic style, but his fantastical scenes feature people--and dogs--in flight. Considering my life-long flying dreams, these canvases have captured my imagination. Flying of one's own power is such an archetypal concept and Rea's work taps into all the accompanying ideas: escape, flying versus falling, being in control versus being under the control of gravity, a sense of higher knowledge...


Top to bottom: Direct Ambition; Man In Flight (Black); In Flight; Life In Flight; The Hungry and the Hunted

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