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Poussin, Landscape with St. John
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It was a tremendous building campaign and I think about the extravagance spaces of the church of il Gesu with its extraordinary illusionistic ceiling. this was operatic, it was theatrical.발음듣기
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It's hard to imagine how at a very same time there we have that broke theatricality we have the classicism, the repose, the peacefulness the rationalism of Poussin.발음듣기
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We know this is Saint John because of the eagle that stands beside him, which is a traditional symbol of this Evangelist.발음듣기
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We're looking at Saint John sitting in the foreground writing the book of Revelation, writing about the end of time, the second coming of Christ are really violent moments, but within this incredibly serene and peaceful landscape.발음듣기
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And of course it's Pussain who has been credited with inventing the ideal landscape and that's exactly what we have here.발음듣기
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And those who painted landscapes in this way, with a sense of rigor and order and rationalism, in a kind of ideal landscape, became known as poussinists.발음듣기
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He's placed the main figure in the foreground but he's really quite small in relationship to the landscape.발음듣기
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In fact we think that Poussin took this pose directly from representations of river gods from ancient Rome.발음듣기
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And also in the background, where we see the ruins of a classical temple and an ancient obelisk.발음듣기
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So he's in this landscape that has a sense of the passage of time as he's writing his book about the end of time.발음듣기
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The notion of passage, I think, is important to understanding the way Pussin constructs a landscape.발음듣기
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Saint John is placed in the very foreground, right at the bottom of the painting, but we can't raise back to the middle ground where that temple is that you had mentioned.발음듣기
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So instead, our eye meanders over to the right and we see a road that seems to go back, but it draws our eyes slowly through this landscape so that we slow down and enjoy the space that he's created.발음듣기
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And at each point in this landscape he gives us something to look at, the foreground with Saint John and the ruins, that path way punctuated by trees, into the middle ground with that temple and obelisk and then again into the background with the mountains and further back with the area perspective and more mountains and clouds.발음듣기
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This is very much a collage of ideal forms and it makes sense for an artist whose aesthetic has been shaped by Rome, which itself is layers of cultures.발음듣기
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Look for instance at this painting where you've got the classical Greek or Roman temple but it's next to an Egyptian obelisk.발음듣기
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The idea here by showing those ruins is to show that there is a new Christian order that will be eternal, foretold by Saint John's book of Revelation.발음듣기
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But that is so counter to what we expect or what we think about Saint John writing the Apocalypse.발음듣기
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It's an important reminder that this artist was actually studying stoic philosophy from ancient Greece, this idea that the control of emotion was of the utmost importance.발음듣기
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Then the pope's commissioning these theatrical works of art in the churchers of counterreformation.발음듣기
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Poussin found a circle of painters, many of whom were interested in stoic philosophy, and that he painted canvases like this one.발음듣기
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