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- sally mckay 12-03-2005 8:33 am

When my mom went to galleries she loved the paintings that she felt she could "walk right into." This ain't one of those; a tender human would come away bloody. But goodness, how beautiful!
- M.Jean 12-03-2005 5:32 pm


For me this image harken's back to the big giant iceberg/flow by General Idea. Endless shards.
- thom (guest) 12-03-2005 10:02 pm


The main reason I posted this early 19th century painting is because of how very, very contemporary it feels (re-re-retro album-cover, sc-fi-bookjacket-nostalgia). Thom, I have been searching for a link to the G.I. piece you are talking about, but no luck so far. Any links or keyword clues?

- sally mckay 12-04-2005 5:36 am


Wow. i guess all there was to do at that point was bust out the paints, and wait for spring.
- rob (guest) 12-04-2005 6:34 am


"In and around the lake..."
- tom moody 12-04-2005 7:03 am


"...Mountains come out of the sky"

Okay. Sorry.
- jim 12-04-2005 8:11 am


Atrios was quoting Yes lyrics about the same time we were.
- tom moody 12-04-2005 8:36 am


http://www.aabronson.com/art/gi.org/works/91fin.htm
http://www.aabronson.com/art/gi.org/works/94portrait.htm

the GI work 'fin de siecle' was *based upon the painting
- anonymous (guest) 12-04-2005 6:15 pm


I was having no luck with a search for the GI piece either. Wow!.......thanks anonymous. I had no idea this actually was based on the painting. Explains why it resonated so strongly I guess.
- thom (guest) 12-04-2005 6:52 pm


When I figured out the source of the image (by clicking on the image! Gosh this web stuff is great), I thought you were quite clever, (screwing with me brains) since I had originally thought it was some diorama-like object that was being currently exhibited at a gallery like the Power Plant (Yup, thought of the GI ice flows from years ago as well, and anonymous confirmed it)
- L.M. 12-04-2005 9:24 pm


GI yes


what do you like better: seals or cats?

- sally mckay 12-04-2005 10:05 pm


the scale is so weird in that painting. I know I am supposed to see the ice shelves as vast, but somehow the boat just looks really tiny instead.
- sally mckay 12-04-2005 10:08 pm


morecaspar

Caspar David Friedrich also painted "Wanderer Above the Mists" which is the cover illustration for a book I read in the '80's called "The Artist's Journey into the Interior" by Erich Heller. I was slightly embarrassed by the cover at that time, but it had some good essays on Romanticism.

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Now the cover looks great because my pet bird (now dead) went berserk on it and chewed up the edges. (I tell people that I did it)
- L.M. 12-04-2005 10:29 pm


Me and Von Bark were talking about that painting the other day. I remember back in art history class finding it really hard to believe that it wasn't supposed to be a joke. When I was a kid my puppy ate For Whom The Bell Tolls...the whole book.
- sally mckay 12-04-2005 10:47 pm


I journey into the interior every single day.
- tom moody 12-04-2005 10:54 pm


That's why artists shouldn't do yoga.
- sally mckay 12-04-2005 11:00 pm


That's fine and dandy Tom, but I prefer to soar to greater heights.

JLS
- L.M. 12-04-2005 11:00 pm


ow! you're hurting me.
- sally mckay 12-04-2005 11:03 pm


didnt jeff wall do some photo work based on this too, or am i on the crack
- anthony (guest) 12-10-2005 12:33 pm


wow,
That's interesting how you see the ice flow painting as a contemporary album cover. Last summer I wrote about romanticism and Rufus Wainwright, and used the Wanderer above the Mists as an illustration. I would also like to add that the cover of Roxy Music's Avalon looks very similar to that image (it is in my opinion some of the nicest album art ever).
- emily (guest) 12-11-2005 5:26 am


roxy music

- sally mckay 12-12-2005 3:30 am





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