ERICH HECKEL (1883-1970)
"Spring Landscape "
1918
Huile et tempera sur toile
Nationalgalerie Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
70 years was about how long Hazel was stuck in the fields of asphodel, waiting, carrying the burden of ‘eternal’ loneliness because she wanted to be a good daughter
Demeter - The Goddess of Harvest & Agriculture
Jade and greenstone masks, Toltec, 100-500 AD
from The Penn Museum
3 postcards venting my frustrations about living in a car centric dull suburban city.
Image and text ID under the cut
[Text ID:
Postcard 1: There is something very sinister about the emptiness of suburbia. It is defined by a lack of everything. No trees, no buildings, no people.
Postcard 2: Flat emotionless concrete, stretched out for miles. You do not see the people hidden in their private carriages, protected in palaces so fortified they might as well not exist.
Postcard 3: To fight isolation, they suggest stepping outside. But you find nothing.]
[Image ID: A set of 3 postcards, with an illustration on the front and writing on the back of each.
The first image is of a yellow surrealist landscape with distorted traffic lights throughout, and a winding path that leads to a blue city in the distance. There is a simplified figure facing towards the city.
The second image is a blue city street with liquified distorted buildings, leading towards an orange glow in the distance. The figure is facing towards the horizon.
The third is an orange desert landscape with a large tree in the foreground and the character resting on it.]
Nilolai Astrup (Norwegian, 1880-1928), Spring Evening in Jølster, 1926.
Oil on canvas, 89.5 cmx110.5 cm. National Museum, Oslo.