In 1878 someone Abner Peeler constructed air brush – aerograph. Of course, this device was very primitive in comparison with modern hi-tech instruments (the inventor himself was a jeweler, and was engaged in painting during his leisure hours). The invention created a furor: rather plain by sight, it represented a sewing needle set into a system of tubes and was connected up with a hand compressor.
Abner painted pictures for 3 years and turned on serious interest in new sort of fine art. In 1881 Liberty Walkup company became interested in Abner Peeler’s invention and accrued the rights from the author at a fabulous price 700$! Inventor provided himself a well-to-do life. In 1883 daughter enterprise of Liberty Walkup called Rockford Airbrush was founded. The company was engaged in advancement of production created with the airbrush (aerography) method. Little by little enthusiasm for aerography acquired larger scales, and the new technique of patterning burst into such branches as advertisement, photography, typography.
There were racing teams who first started using aerography technique – they patterned pictures of hard-won cups, information about sponsors, pictures of animals embodied rapidity of this or that bolide. Soon sport moneymakers realized that every square centimeter can make an additional profit as an advertising area, and now almost all information we can see at sport cars is commercial and usually advertise this or that brand. However, soon aerographic pictures were changed to bright stickers – they are easier to change from one to another race. And only brand names sometimes are patterned by means of aerography.
In spite of banishment aerography from sport, its development wasn’t stopped. At the beginning of 1940-s firms and studios which patterned pictures by airbrush method on common cars appeared. And now aerography grows, and our attention is attracted not only by ornamented cars, but also by mobile phones, computers, monitors, snowboards, bicycles, motorcycles, helmets, refrigerators and even furniture. One is dazzled because of such plenty and wants to make every object unique, to impart style and mood to it… Now we can confidently say that artistic aerography irrevocably came into our life.
