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See Naples and die

Ferdinand Kulmer1983

Museums of Serbia

Museums of Serbia
Belgrade, Serbia

An impressive painting with an interesting name "To see Naples and die!" Belongs to the expressionist style that he nurtured in the 1980s. taken from Goethe's quotation, to this day unexplained. Did Goethe, and thus Kulmer, think of Naples looking at history full of destruction, conquest and bloody conflicts, or a city that must be seen because of the miraculous overlap of cultural movements, gastronomy and interesting nature with Mount Vesuvius, which constantly dominates the whole area with constans activity? A dramatic painting with parts that break up the whole composition with flaming color and strong, precise strokes. Vesuvius broke through the background of swirling dust, smoke and soot. Under it, houses bend, consciously avoiding any precise element of architecture or life. The unusual griffin of a woman's body, in an attitude as if giving birth to a new time, creates a shield from everything that could happen to that city. To show who dominates the territory, Vesuvius decided to add heat, embers, ashes and smoke from the epicenter to the artificial fire - directly from hell. The author summed up every kind of hopelessness, misfortune, sadness and pain in one flaming image of a strange atmosphere.

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