Art Wars

By Moata Tamaira

Princess Leia has the Death Star plans...

Seascape - documentation: preparatory drawing

Neil Dawson Seascape - documentation: preparatory drawing 1979

Ruth

Raymond McIntyre Ruth c. 1913

On a spaceship...

But Darth Vader is on the trail

5

Max Hailstone 5 1989

Sista7

Lonnie Hutchinson Sista7 2003

Taputapu 1

Fatu Feu’u Taputapu 1 1990

Be still Earth, be silent, be still and be silent

Francis A. Shurrock Be still Earth, be silent, be still and be silent c. 1933

I want those plans brought to me!

Help me Obiwan Kenobi. You're my only hope...

Curtain Call

Terry Stringer Curtain Call 1981

Help us Obi Wan Kenobi. You're our only hope...

Untitled (self-portrait)

Bill Sutton Untitled (self-portrait)  

Obi Wan Kenobi

Probe

Carolyn Menzies Probe 1997

Alderaan will make good target practise for our death ray.

You must learn the ways of the Force, Luke.
(It's a bit like being a Samurai)

L’enfant prodigue

Jean-Baptiste Fosseyeux L’enfant prodigue  

You must learn the ways of the Force, Luke.

Nakamura Shikan IV as the magician Banjaku Taro

Utagawa Kunisada Nakamura Shikan IV as the magician Banjaku Taro 1860

Sword. Check. Robe. Check. Super powers...maybe.

Trastevere, a note

Bill Sutton Trastevere, a note 1973-1974

Mos Eisley, wretched hive of scum and villainy

New Moon

Gail Wright New Moon 1989

That's no moon...

Old enemies will meet for the last time.

Ko wai koe? (Who are you?)

Marian Maguire Ko wai koe? (Who are you?) 2003

I feel a disturbance in the Force. A presence I haven't felt since...

The Nave Redcliff

Charles Brooke Bird The Nave Redcliff 1904

That shield generator should be around here somewhere...

Sangro Litany

Ralph Hotere Sangro Litany 1979

En garde!

Unicorns

Juliet Peter Unicorns 1939

Good and evil with light sabers

The Pantheon

Neil Dawson The Pantheon c. 1970

The shields are down. Let's blow this pop stand!

Death and the Woodcutter

Leo Bensemann Death and the Woodcutter c. 1940

If you strike me down I will grow stronger...

Fortune?

Elizabeth Wallwork Fortune? 1928

They totally let us get away, numbskulls. There's a tracking device on this ship. But we've got the plans so here's hoping we can find a weakness.

Tychonis Brahe Calculus, Planetarum Cursus Et Altitudines Ob Oculos Ponens

Jan van Loon, Andreas Cellarius Tychonis Brahe Calculus, Planetarum Cursus Et Altitudines Ob Oculos Ponens 1660?

A small exhaust port should do the trick. Bothan spies. Yadda yadda.

The lover who does not forget sometimes dies of excess, exhaustion and tension of memory

Kim Pieters The lover who does not forget sometimes dies of excess, exhaustion and tension of memory 2001

Death Star trench, extreme close up

Black Painting

Ralph Hotere Black Painting 1969

Like bullseyeing a womprat in your T-16.

Search

Luise Fong Search 1996

BOOM!