Superfluities Redux
On culture and theatre, by George Hunka
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Tuesday, 22 April 2008
Caspar David Friedrich, Kriedefelsen auf
Rügen
1818/1819
Museum Oskar Reinhart am Stadtgarten Winterthur
The viewer and the artist do not have the daring of the subjects: two men, a woman, approaching the chalk cliffs through a clearing in the forest, edging to a fall. Safely distant, perhaps to anticipate the elegantly dressed (the red velvet of the woman's dress) subjects' fall. Set deep inside the mind, perspective framed within the sphenoid of the chalkwhite skull. But the fall invites as one edges closer to the extreme of the cliff's perimeter. They may have the daring to enter the landscape.
Posted at 8.43 am in /Organum/Gallery
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