117
Monolith
(lemmy.world)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2024
117 points (98.3% liked)
Art Share🎨
4500 readers
223 users here now
This is a friendly community for everyone who wants to share their art with the world! Everyone is welcomed 🎨
Rules
AI Art: While we appreciate AI generated art, there are more appropriate communities to post that type of art to. Please keep posts to non-AI generated art only. This rule includes AI art that was then manually manipulated (e.g. drawing on top of something generated by AI).
Nudity: Nudity is and has always been a part of art, but it may be something that some users don't wish to see or cannot view in certain circumstances (e.g. at work). If your work contains nudity, please mark it as NSFW. Work that contains nudity that is not marked as NSFW will be taken down. As long as the NSFW tag is used, we welcome nude subject matter.
Spam: Please do not spam this community. Self promotion is fine if you just want people to be aware of your work, but blatant attempts at spam will result in the past being removed and possibly a ban. If you aren't sure if what you are posting is spam, please contact the moderator first.
Conduct: Be nice, and don't be a jerk. Constructive criticism is OK, but don't be mean. Encouragement is always welcomed.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
This got me thinking about Childe Rowland as described in Robert Browning's poem and "2001: A Space Odyssey". I started making strange connections between these three pieces of art: Monoliths and Dark Towers, Elf Kings and alien intelligences, Knight's or astronauts sent on quests that others have failed. I guess most of those comparisons have more to do with the poetry and prose than the painting, but the painting seems to fit in well to either narrative. There is something inhuman in the look of that tower, like the Elf King's dark tower and Clarke's monolith. And there is a feeling of bleak dark awe to the painting, the poem, and the science fiction.
I tried tapping into the platonic ideal of the foreboding dark tower that we see in so many of our narratives, so I'm glad my piece managed to send you down this path! Including 2001 of course (though not quite a tower), hence the name. I wasn't familiar with Robert Browning's poem, thanks for the link!