Artemis
1894
251.0 x 193.0 cm
Statens Museum for Kunst
There is no physical space behind Hammershøi’s figures. The dark base acts more as a painted surface than as an illusion of a stage. The figures seem to exist independently of time and space, like images of ideas, perhaps representing a longing for a beauty that is not of this world.Sublimation of manHammershøi painted out the fleshy elements of nudity in favour of an Arcadian concept of nudity as a pure, harmonic form. In Hammershøi’s painting, the goddess Artemis - crowned with a crescent moon - becomes the centre of a sublimation of man and all things human; an insistence on beauty and art as a soulful, condensed form.Hammershøi
vilhelm christian hammershøi (1864 – 1916)
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Statens Museum for Kunst (København, Danmark)
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Om dette kunstværk
- Titel: Artemis
- Kunstner: vilhelm christian hammershøi
- År: 1894
- Oprindelige mål: 251.0 x 193.0 cm
- Format: Landscape
- Ophavsretlig status: Offentlig ejendomsret
- Hvor det kan ses: Statens Museum for Kunst
- Farvepalette: Earthy
- Farvetone: Ochre to Sepia