Arria Marcella, a posteriori drawing Print

This drawing, made on 250 gr. White Artix paper, is a revision of the lines and tone of the work in mixed technique on canvas "Arria Marcella and the madness of Octavio Painting" from the collection" Prometheu's mistake". 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. (Note: The drawing, made on heavyweight white Artix paper (250 gr.), is not sent in a roll but in a cardboard box with the drawing duly protected and packed, to avoid deformation of this semi-rigid paper).

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:8 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:13.25 W x 17.25 H x 1.2 D in

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