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Mémoire des paysages | Size (HxW) : | 40x120 cm Framed | Style : | Figurative Style | Technic : | Oil on canvas | Theme : | Imagination | Category : | Painting | Price : | Euros 750 | Year : | 2014 | Desc. : | “My God! They are so clearly visible, those trenches dug by our Engineers! They gradually zigzag to the top. Each of them seems to hide a big burrowing beast. It digs deeper and deeper, heaving and throwing bulges of clay on each side, then suddenly disappears before it soon reemerges on the other side of the hill that has been ripped open.” “Shells are falling: nothing else matters, it goes on and on. There are moments when you can hardly believe in the possibility of that ever-present reality, of that incredibly persistent din: the continuous shaking of the earth suffering repeated blows. There is that suffocating, corrosive smell in the air, and the plumes of smoke constantly rising and dispersing, and rising again here or there, in some place where they are to be seen all the time.” Maurice Genevoix, |
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