Himmel
Marsden Hartley’s Himmel appears like a display of fireworks translated into paint on canvas and across the frame. The composition’s overlapping, abstract, colorful shapes are rooted in French Cubism’s motifs and palette. The concentric discs floating across the painting reveal Hartley’s knowledge of American Indian design. They also may relate to cockades that decorated the German military uniforms that Hartley saw while living in Berlin at the onset of World War I. The German words for heaven (Himmel) and hell (Hölle) frame two conical shapes that resemble Zuckertuete, colorful bags of candy given to German schoolchildren. Combining childhood themes with military references, Hartley suggests that war is a kind of game that may end in salvation or damnation.
Marsden Hartley (1877 – 1943)
Marsden Hartley: un pictor american modernist cu opere spirituale, portrete puternice și o fuziune unică de abstractie. O figură cheie a artei din secolul XX.
Muzeul Național de Artă Nelson-Atkins (Kansas City, Statele Unite ale Americii)
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Detalii despre această operă
- Titlu: Himmel
- Artist: Marsden Hartley
- An: 1915
- Format: Square
- Statutul drepturilor de autor: Domeniu public
- Unde poate fi văzută: Muzeul Național de Artă Nelson-Atkins
- Tip de suport: WallArt
- Paleta de culori: Dark
- Scopul: Accent
- Cuvinte cheie: painting reproduction , palette colors , cockades