A famous painting starts to live in 3 dimensions: Film "Satan and Death with Sin Intervening"
Looked at and interpreted in a radically new way. NightArt takes a different approach: Within 6 -- 7 minutes a painting is shown in situ, the artist is briefly presented and then the painting is examined from various angles which go beyond the two-dimensional work of art on canvas.. All or part are re-constituted in the studio to give the viewer a chance to take a look from within and experience what the models might have seen and the perspectives the artist might not have chosen to commit to canvas. By this change of point of view we believe the understanding of the work of art presented is greatly enhanced. This is particularly true of relations between the persons depicted.
Johann Heinrich Füssli painted "Satan and Death with Sin Intervening" in 1802 in order to illustrate the world-famous epic poem "Paradise Lost" by the great English poet John Milton, whose overwhelmingly powerful verses tell a story from an era before Adam and Eve. The central figure in the poem is Satan, who is portrayed as a strong, self-confident hero. Consumed with rage, he flies through chaos. He has heard about God's creation -- Paradise -- and he wants to destroy it.
But the gates of Paradise are guarded by Sin. She is Satan's daughter, the creation of his own mind. Satan afterwards mated with her, and the fruit of their incestuous love was Death.
Füssli's paintings never reached a large audience during his life, but he later exerted an important influence on many painters and draftsmen. He also acquired cult status in Satanic circles -- in part because he elevated the Devil to heroic status.
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