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oil on canvas, 800mmX1000mminspired by Arnold Bokhlin
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this painting is reminding a lot on this work by Arnold Bokhlin --> www.google.hr/search?q=arnold+…
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yes, you are right Kirke, that was the reference for me.
Remarkable, you spotted it!
Perhaps I should mention Bokhlin under the painting.
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yes you should mention his name: arnold bocklin
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What's most striking in this painting in my opinion is the contrast between the overall darkness of the settings and the brightness of the boat. I enjoyed also the fact that it's so 'full' - if you get what i mean - there's no empty spaces in this picture. And the cave-complex structure is very beautiful by the way, you choosed a nice selection of colours for the rock, reminds me a little of Gauguin don't know why.
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thank you very much for a detailed and complimentary comment!
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This has a beautiful atmosphere about it, very mellow, gentle and mysterious
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thank you very much Anne, for a beautiful appreciation and the fav!
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Such a beautiful array of colors...
Although the yellow gets really distracting. Was that on purpose? Because I can see that you had a good understanding of the tone. Everything else looks well unified.
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thank you very much indeed.
I really feel flattered when someone says technically good things about my work! Because I am not trained as a painter and without sounding pompous, technique is usually the last thing on my mind too.
Yellow, yes, it is deliberately 'light'. I wanted to do a painting on the theme - how some people, leave everything overnight, go on solitary life-long voyages, to strange lands - both physical and metaphorical. That is 'calling' for them.
It jars to the rest, as this is something foolish the person is doing.That yellow is the 'calling', title of the piece.
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Wow, wondeful meaning. Thanks for explaining that, now I can really appreciate the painting
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"The light facing the entering of the dark..." I think of Dante being led by Virgil into the Underworld ... although the "shards of gold" are interesting ... the shapes jumped out at me first, it is not a "normal" area or mountainside we are looking at, there is a metamorphosis of sorts going on here, a changing from what we are used to to something else. The dark colors and "every-which-texture" style is nicely done.
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Dark and dreamy images. I'm always into your skies. Not sure if I get the symbolism, but it reminds me of ancient beliefs of the afterlife. The yellow sillouette is maybe the spirit? The mountain with the bright shapes heaven?
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Thanks Juliette, was really waiting for you to look this up.
There is no intended specific symbolism as such from my side.I just had a vague thought of depictiong how someone would travel mysterious, strange lands - literally or metaphorically - due to some 'calling'.Ordinary people may think him foolish...
Actually there is [or was, he died a few years ago] a contemporary writer of great caliber in my native language. One of his books is a collection of two long stories. Both deal with the protagonist's exotic voyages into the unknown and end in tragedies far bigger than death.He was a writer utterly disillusioned by humanity and all his writing is profoundly fatalistic.
The title of this painting, in my language would be the title of that book. For a long time I have been wanting to do a painting based on his work.
So, that is the background, sort of.
Thanks again for a lovely interpretation.
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Sounds like an interesting writer. What's his name? Has his work been translated into English?
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His name is G A Kulkarni.Kaulkarni is a very common surname from my state but he always insisted on G A part of it to be english letters! We write our names as - own name, then father's name and then surname. So, G is the initial of his own name, then A that of his father's, and Kulkarni the family name.
Anyway,his work is not translated as far as I know. Main difficulty must be his use of very rich, very ornate language, that is well nigh impossible to translate.
Say, Nabokov or Anais Nin or a german poet called Novalis - I would say they are impossible to translate.
As to his world view though, [and I might have suggested this earlier, I am not sure, but] if you can get hold of Thomas Bernahard, an austrain writer - 'yes', 'the loser', wittgenstein's nephew', that can tell you about GA's world-view. An extremely low opinion about humanity.
And imagine Nabokov writing that type of prose.[Bernard's prose is cryptic and curt, not lyrical at all. G A's prose is very fantasy-laden, like Gabriel Garcia Marquez's].
LOL, that's not much help, I am sure, but the best I can do!!
thanks for the interest.
[btw, when I was struggling to paint the sky in this piece, as some parts were just not turning up as I wanted, I did think of your likely observation!]
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Thanks anyway! My opinion of humanity swings wildly back and forth, on any given day, haha. Today I'm feeling very cynical, but tomorrow I could be a giant marshmellow.
I'm flattered-thank you!
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The textures in this piece are great. I love how you've combined organic shapes (rock formation) with more planar shapes and Euclidean shapes. The combination of planar surfaces(like the yellow figure on the boat and the trees) and surfaces with depth (rocks, the water, the boat, the rower...) really adds to the dream quality of this piece. It also reminds me a little bit of Klimt
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Thanks you so much, Elizabeth, for a detailed and analytical comment.I am glad if it has given a dream-like quality.
Surprising that you mention Klimt -in fact the very first pic you commented and fav-ed - the one on maternal mortality [universal medical care] have the woman and the child from Klimt.
Ref for this one comes from part of a painting by one Arnold Boeklin, a 19th c painter.
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That is what first attracted me to Universal health care. He was a good artist to borrow from because he had a lot of paintings dealing with life and death and the stages of life. He especially focused on the lives of women. I'll have to look up Boeklin, the name is not immediately familiar. But I am not as entrenched in art as I once was.
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It is Boecklin [o-umlaut], had missed the 'c' earlier!
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No problem, google still recognized the name
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good!
did you get to see any of his works?
I bought a book in Italian on 'symbolism' last year in Rome. It has a number of artists, but only this piece I referred to by Bocklin. So,may be, I too will look up on the web.
From the print in the book, I have used only the right half for this pic.
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I saw that print online. When I saw i recognized him. A long time ago I had a book on symbolist painters, and it too probably had that print in it. But I rather liked some of his other pieces.
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