A TRAVERS L'ESPACE ET LE TEMPS.
Moby Dick transcendent. Rockwell Kent 1930. Kent maintained that his aim was ‘to transmute pigment into light; and to reduce the bewildering infinitude of nature to an ordered finitude’.
Whale beneath the sea. Rockwell Kent 1930. Le cachalot réel est tapi dans l'inframonde. Celui illustré sur le tableau du chapitre 3 planait au dessus du navire dans une mer démontée... ‘a long, limber, portentous, black mass of something hovering in the centre of the picture over three blue, dim, perpendicular lines floating in a nameless yeast.’ However, its ‘indefinite’ qualities and its ‘half-attained, unimaginable sublimity’ also fascinate him. It is ‘the Black Sea in a midnight gale’, ‘the unnatural combat of the four primal elements’, ‘a Hyperborean winter scene’, ‘the breaking-up of the icebound stream of Time’. ‘Does it not bear a faint resemblance to a gigantic fish?’
Ubiquitous. Robert Del Tredici. 2014.
Article détaillé de Matthew Kerr dans Apollo (The international art magazine), hier.
