This painting took me of my feet with the title. The
word choice is fairly specific, and it has given me the wondering about what
it is actually implying. This painting is characteristic to me because the
house arcades (on the left) stands as a scenery around empty space with highly
cast exaggerated shadows or maybe just the very right moment of the sunset of
the day. It is disturbing, but yet an evacuating and timeless universe where
the laws of sense seem to give way to the dream world. It might sound a little
too poetic for no reason, but of course I will try to explain.
Everything in the painting is ultimately done with
great preciseness to contour with color use to set an empty atmosphere. In the
left bottom corner is a girl (presumably) that is playing very peacefully with
her stick and bicycle rim balancing her into the painting, where another shadow
is to be seen. This creates a mental illusion, given the time (1914), the
title, and also to consider what message to infer. The use of elements is very
few, but imagination can build upon raging ideas for what this painting
actually means. I suggest that the girl holds on to the whole meaning of the
painting and that is by saying that she represents so much in so little.
Sensitive and caring with her elegant jump/run, conscientious
and introverted when looking closer to the direction of her face (towards the
white building, instead of the bigger unknown shadow). Usually these elements
do not play a role all together, but with my knowledge of World War I and the ‘mystery’
of the future was unpredictable, just like this painting.
In 1914, it was probably to no one’s knowledge what the
outcome of the WWI would be which is just like the outcome of this painting; it
is to no one’s knowledge where the girl is heading and what she is to
encounter.
I utterly and strongly suggest anyone reading this
blog to review my 4th source to read a poem that magnifies this
painting to something beyond what I have ever thought of or researched about.
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