Life and Themes

Aug 3, 2018

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In blue and green, in a violet dream, the seasons had come and gone.
with hands entwined, with hearts in a bind,
the maidens of the meadows sang.
The shepherdess dreams
a pastoral dream,
a utopia of deviant art.

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Ferdinand Hodler
The Dream of the Shepherd (1896)
if i take it too far, then it doesn‘t say anything anymore, because it is longer than necessary and is thus superfluous
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Ferdinand Hodler (March 14, 1853 – May 19, 1918) was one of the best-known Swiss painters of the nineteenth century. His early works were portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings in a realistic style. Later, he adopted a personal form of symbolism he called Parallelism … that emphasized the symmetry and rhythm he believed formed the basis of human society.

Hodler's work in his final phase took on an expressionist aspect with strongly coloured and geometrical figures. Landscapes were pared down to essentials, sometimes consisting of a jagged wedge of land between water and sky.

In 1908, he met Valentine Godé-Darel, who became his mistress. She was diagnosed with cancer in 1913, and the many hours Hodler spent by her bedside resulted in a remarkable series of paintings documenting her decline from the disease. Her death in January 1915 affected Hodler greatly. He occupied himself with work on a series of about 20 introspective self-portraits that date from 1916.

In 1914 he condemned the German atrocities conducted using artillery at Rheims.[11] In retaliation for this, German art museums excluded Hodler's work.

~ https://en.wikipedia.org
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image from the-athenaeum.org
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this collection is permanently on view at http://anu.co.za/
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