#lightning field

[koilarist]

When your BF's cookies come out the oven looking like an eldritch horror and you're dying to tell him it's because he used too much butter

[ueberdemnebelmeer]

[deadbranch]

Strike me down

give me everything you've got

strike me down

I'll be everything I'm not

[thinkingimages]

The Lightning Field, Walter De María

[holodrome]

[werkboileddown]

[gagosiangallery]

Walter De Maria and The Lightning Field at Forty:Art as Symbiosis

Land Art now helps us see the very best of the planet more resolutely: its innate drama and its benign disregard.

In 1886, the French Orientalist and academic artist Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) painted The First Kiss of the Sun, a serene early morning view of Giza from the east. In it, Ra’s rays have set aglow only the peaks of the pyramids of Khufu and Khafre, and the sun is not yet high enough to illuminate the shorter pyramid of Menkaure nor the squat sphinx of Khafre, whose head emerges from the mist in the center of the picture. Three camels mellow in the foreground, their positions mimicking the triad of skyward thrusting tombs beyond. It had been six years since Gérôme’s final trip to the Nile River Valley, but in working in the comfort of his Paris studio from a sketch made on site, he conveyed in startling coloristic chiaroscuro the way the rising sun’s rays reveal the ancient structures from the top down against the brightening sky. Gérôme gave a whitish cast to the apexes of the larger pyramids, although then as now only Khafre’s, the central and tallest one, still retains traces of the gleaming buffed limestone veneer that in the Old Kingdom would have covered all four sides of these ancient monuments.

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[quandary-deeper-higher]

(c) Jason Weingart - A stacked image of lightning from thunderstorms along a cold front in Florence, Texas