1871-1957
Symbolist painter, illustrator, printmaker, cartoonist and graphic artist
The Way of Silence
1900-1903
Oil on canvas
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1871-1957
Symbolist painter, illustrator, printmaker, cartoonist and graphic artist
The Way of Silence
1900-1903
Oil on canvas
Although Kupka's painting certainly doesn't correspond to Poe's Dream-land (1850) in the particulars of its imagery, its depiction of a pathway through eternity certainly captures the atmosphere of the poem's opening stanza:
BY a route obscure and lonely,
Haunted by ill angels only,
Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,
On a black throne reigns upright,
I have reached these lands but newly
From an ultimate dim Thule —
From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime,
Out of SPACE — out of TIME.