De Profundis, 120x80cm, oil by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley
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This painting forms a part of a small body of work that has been inspired by the ballet The Metamorphosis based on Franz Kafka’s short story. The work was very affecting and deeply moving. The title may be considered to have a religious context which is not the case. The phrase describes the state in which the protagonists find themselves in the most complete and concise way. There is a gallery on my website that shows the other work in this collection.
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Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley
"The good painter has to paint two principal things, that is to say, man and the intention of his mind. The first is easy and the second difficult, because the latter has to be represented through gestures and movements of the limbs." (MK388) From: Leonardo da Vinci: The Graphic Work, p16, J…
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