This is a poem that voices my assessment of the painting and what it says to me see short resume The picture is from www.sv.wikipedia.org
Salvation and Damnation by M.A.Meddings the Wounded angel challenge
It seems to me that Simberg has captured base aspects of human nature in the two boys carrying the stretcher. Whilst the Angel is the central figure and surmounts the golden section of the painting to me she represents the beauty of human love destroyed. I ask, destroyed by what? I see the answer in the subdued rivalry of the two stretcher bearers.
Both are of different natures. The front bearer denotes in my mind a determined character whos eyes are fixed on the road ahead, head down and bent on getting the fallen love to safety. The other a proud upright figure who looks to the audience for his accolade. 'Look' says he 'what a stalwart figure I am, i am helping my love and will take what ever praise I can.
The lake and the mountain stream represents to my mind a future of purity and rejuvination a healing, a salvation for love embodied in the angel, but then I am a romantic.
Drawn to the task
Thy name be salvation
And loyalty
looking to the audience
Thy name be damnation
And me! me! me!
Born between you
The image of beauty
A fallen angel
Destroyed by the
Rivalry of two
Who would love thee
And beyond in the back ground
The promise of freshness
Rebirth
In a mountain stream
Runnig down and away
To a new beginnig
Poetry by lastromantichero
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Written on 2007-01-26 at 11:24
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