Still or Stijl?
Poll Still or Stijl?
I hadn't been in the New Jersey woodlands for over a decade, so it was a surprise to be reminded just how extensive a leatherstocking country they cut the corporate campuses out of. George Washington's 1777 headquarters. A thousand geese on the Dow Jones lawn. Coming soon, 190,000 square foot shopping center. On the road back, my driver was so proud of his satellite navigation system (thousand dollars and a half for DVD) he talked about it at great length, and also about Ukraine's prospects for economic self-sufficiency. Her driver didn't have it, so he had to call us to find his way back to the city.
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"Although he enjoyed the parlor games of Surrealism, Ernst was not an effete artist, and one of the surprises of the exhibit is how robust he could be. His dreams are grounded: He feels them in his fingers. In one series, for example, he would take rubbings of objects like leaves, literally stamping his work with the visceral world. This gives his dreaminess an unexpected substantiality, much as the spirituality of a Byzantine icon is enhanced by heavy paint and crusty jewels. One of his ongoing images was 'the forest,' which in his hands becomes a complex, ambiguous, and always tangible environment. The forest is both an open-ended mystery and a claustrophobic place of secrets. He would often juxtapose numinous circles with the densely detailed woods." [Mark Stevens, "The Interpretation of Dreams"]