Differently from previous years, reference has been made, in addition to the aircraft, to the other aviation products included in the wide range offered by G&G Aviation.

To do that and respect the artistic and colourful tradition of the G&G calendars the author, Daniela Santinelli, analyzed the deep and variegated changes that, in parallel to the evolution of aviation, took place in the art, selecting the painters who characterized the artistic currents in the last century and their works deemed most appropriate for a non invasive insertion of products so in contrast.

The aeronautical product has been integrated in the artwork, respecting its colours and style,or has been represented with a technique similar to the inspiring painting in order to have a definite but discrete presence.

The paintings, represented in chronological order, are:

JANUARY/FEBRUARY

• Lux, calmè et voluptè (1904) - Matisse: The artist initially joined the Pointillist style that, without cancelling the preceeding painting tradition includes and renew it. The insertion of an executive aircraft in the painting copes well with the original spirit of the artwork title giving to it a more modern connotation. 

MARCH/APRIL

• La fabrica de horta (1909) - Picasso: Picasso was an absolute protagonist, together with Matisse but opposite to him, of the art in the XX century: As Matisse was calm and toughtful, Picasso was very impulsive and impetuous; the lines of Matisse were sweet and sensual opposed to those harsh and sharp of Picasso especially in his cubist period. The Neoplan bus, inserted in the foreground, seems to be designed following the same inspiration and, using similar colours, gets into the picture in a total manner almost disappearing in it.

MAY/JUNE

• Promenade (1917) di Chagall: the long and productive life of Chagall spanned over almost the entire century and his paintworks are included in different categories of the contemporary art. Chagall’s works comunicate happyness and optimism through the selection of intense and brilliant colours like if he was looking at life through a stained glass. The dream of flight and lightness, represented in the original painting by the flying woman, has been materialized in the shape of the aircraft, an instrument invented to satify such dream, which nevertheless maintains the colours and the rustle of the women’s dress.

 JULY/AUGUST

• Pintura (1953) - Mirò: The author was one of the most radical theorist of the surrealism, in his research of the inwardness of things, in his hallucinated parallel world full of coloured geometric shapes. The colouring, resembling a lunar landscape, suggested the replacement of a line with the shadow of a tripod jack that, in its shape, could remind a LEM that landed on the moon. 

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER

• Marilyn (1966) - Warhol: Warhol is a predominant character of the american pop art. His succesful method was the repetition: he used to reproduce on big canvas the same image several times with altered colours. In this case in lieu of modifying or integrating the original picture the same technique has been used to represent an aeronautical engine, obtaining a result which, in any case, immediately recall the artist.

 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER

• Piazza d'Italia con sole spento (1971) - De Chirico together with Carrà, De Chirico created a new pictorial current named the Metaphisics. According to the artist "metaphisic" is whatever is uprooted from its logical environment. Any object isolated from its usual context and inserted in a different one. Such an inspiring concept has been emphasized replacing the statue in the square with a Frasca flight simulator.

 As already said the calendar is produced and distributed in a limited edition, however, since this year, G&G decided to make available, on request, a printable electronic version.