Wordless Wonder

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cavetocanvas: Alfred Steichen, The Brass Bowl, 1904 From the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Like many of Steichen’s early photographs, this image of a languid young woman with a weary gaze recalls the work of Eugène Carrière, a French Symbolist painter who was very much in vogue when Steichen first traveled to Paris to visit the 1900 Exposition Universelle and the nearby Rodin Pavillion (for which Carrière designed the poster). Steichen considered him to be “one of the greatest of modern French painters” and described his moody canvases, which usually portrayed dimly lit figures emerging from a dark field, as securing “an exquisite feeling of atmosphere and shroud[ing] that in a lovely sentiment.” It is of little consequence that the woman depicted in The Brass Bowl remains unidentified; the photograph was intended as a mood piece, not a portrait. I just freaking love this.

cavetocanvas:

Alfred Steichen, The Brass Bowl, 1904

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art:

Like many of Steichen’s early photographs, this image of a languid young woman with a weary gaze recalls the work of Eugène Carrière, a French Symbolist painter who was very much in vogue when Steichen first traveled to Paris to visit the 1900 Exposition Universelle and the nearby Rodin Pavillion (for which Carrière designed the poster). Steichen considered him to be “one of the greatest of modern French painters” and described his moody canvases, which usually portrayed dimly lit figures emerging from a dark field, as securing “an exquisite feeling of atmosphere and shroud[ing] that in a lovely sentiment.” It is of little consequence that the woman depicted in The Brass Bowl remains unidentified; the photograph was intended as a mood piece, not a portrait.

I just freaking love this.

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