so a goethe walks into a bar...
"I have entered an inn toward evening, and, as a well-favored girl, with a brilliantly fair complexion, black hair, and a scarlet bodice, came into the room, I looked attentively at her as she stood before me at some distance in half shadow. As she presently afterward turned away, I saw on the white wall, which was now before me, a black face surrounded with a bright light, while the dress of the perfectly distinct figure appeared a beautiful sea-green."
-J.W. von Goethe
posted by sloth @ 7:14 PM
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5 Comments:
I am excited by this watercolor by Goethe. It is bgood. or gbad? Anyway, I guess you could say it's the painting that launched Modernism. He painted it in 1810.
Nice bodice!
yo, isn't that an ofili?
woah. you nailed it, dubzy...
in case the old-timey phrasing is throwing you off, this is a retinal after-image painting. This dude did a lot of perceptual experimentation. It was kind of a fad at the time, and a few peeps went blind from staring at the sun too long.
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