Arria Marcella and the madness of Octavio Painting

"The only way for us to become great, or even inimitable if possible, is to imitate the Greeks." Johan Joachim Winckelmann "Just as the flowers adorn the earth and the stars the sky, the same happens with Greece and the world" Johan Gottfried Herder "You see Naples and then you die." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The work deals with delusional idealism, the unattainable ideal (fortunately), the trace of the past confused with the present and the resulting cultural disease. Arria Marcella is the petrified female ghost of Thèophile Gautier's tale with which her protagonist, the young idealistic and shy Octaviano, is in love. Their meeting in the streets of Pompeii ends in an exorcism from which the young man will not recover. The story exposes the prevailing current of thought in northern Europe during the 19th century, which considered that Art is nothing other than the manifestation of the idealized nature that the Greeks managed to materialize in marble and that everything else was a deviation, a cultural degeneration (Entartete Kunst), which had a great impact on the ideas of the totalitarians of the 20th century. Unfortunately I leave behind a powerful inheritance.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:36.2 W x 28.7 H x 0.8 D in

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