Flying Men Dame Elizabeth Frink

Dame Elisabeth Frink
Flying Men, 1997
Bronze, 210 x 170 x 64 centimetres each

In Elisabeth Frink's sculpture, the viewer is presented with art in its most essential form. Stripped of any ornament or stylistic conceit, the rough-textured figures of Flying Men are held in straightforward action, displaying the raw plainness of a purely fluid motion. As some critics have noted, Frink's art is without "theatrical fat:" there is no "falsity of feeling." These figures move in simple pleasure. They illustrate the full realization that they are physically and spiritually free.