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See essay on this piece here: [link]
A personal art collaboration with Forgetmenotgirl
Inspired by Gustav Klimt's 'Danae'
Prints of this work are NOT for sale.
A personal art collaboration with Forgetmenotgirl
Inspired by Gustav Klimt's 'Danae'
Prints of this work are NOT for sale.
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There's a quality of immediacy injected into both the painting and your photograph if Acrisius' perception of the oracle's prophecy is spacially and temporally compressed into a single, momentary frame...and the black rectangular discus (flung without patricidal intent by an adult Perseus) is seen from Acrisius' point of view, hurtling toward his personal, inevitable destruction...which, ironically, validates the preservation of his royal lineage -- despite the vexing choices he'd made to preclude (the simultaneously sacrament and profanity of) that fatal inevitability.
I'd like to believe Klimt told the entire story of a mortal man's morality in the visionary moment of his profoundly reluctant personal extinction.
I'd like to believe Klimt told the entire story of a mortal man's morality in the visionary moment of his profoundly reluctant personal extinction.