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|  | "Sodom and Gomorrah" by John Martin
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| | Re: "Sodom and Gomorrah" by John Martin
« Reply #1 on Oct 5, 2008, 3:52pm » | |
you don't need religious convictions to appreciate the imagination of this guy in the early 1800s. this painting looks like a hideous new form of nuclear bomb. and the curiously 'aimed' lightning bolt—is it possible that john martin preceded nikola tesla in the theorization of directed energy weapons? probably not, that's going too far. but wow, check out some john martin.
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| | Re: "Sodom and Gomorrah" by John Martin
« Reply #2 on Oct 5, 2008, 6:58pm » | |
Martin liked to do things big--big canvases, wide vistas, cataclysmic subjects. He took his lead from an earlier artist, Philip Loutherbourg, who tended in the same direction.
Martin's reputation has had wide fluctuations--extremely popular in his day, thoroughly neglected for a time afterward. I think that, like Grimshaw and many 19th c. artists, he had his own peculiar strength and unabashedly persisted in it.
So whether someone enjoys Martin or Grimshaw may depend less on the skill of the artist and more on whether you care much to see vast destruction or moonlit English country.
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