MET Trip

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The piece of art that caught my attention during my trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art was Bohemian Lies by the Sea made in 1996 by Anselm Kiefer. This beautiful piece of artwork is in the Modern and Contemporary Art Collection. The actual painting depicts a poppy field and is made out of oil emulsion, shellac, charcoal, and powdered paint on burlap.
The white wall surrounding the painting is very contrasting to the dark material used in the painting. It is a very somber painting and the way it is presented only makes it more evident. The title comes from a poem by the renowned Australian writer Ingeborg Bachmann. Bachmann's poem actually is influenced by Shakespeare: his play, The Winter's Tale contains the stage direction, " Bohemia. A desert Country near the Sea". Both the play and poem have a similar theme which is in essence about longing for utopia while recognizing that it could never be found, and that theme is attached to the painting by Kiefer. In the play, the former king of Bohemia, confined in Central Europe, can never lie by the sea. 


 

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