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Isle of the Dead - Camera 9

Artist: Alberto Lavoradori (All)

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Title:	Isle of the Dead - Camera 9
Artist:	Alberto Lavoradori (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	1,966
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Added to Site:	10/14/2019
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Description

This piece is an homage to the Swiss Symbolist artist Arnold Böcklin and his series of the "Isle of the Dead" paintings, produced between 1880 and 1886.

These paintings depict a desolate and rocky islet seen across an expanse of dark water. A small rowboat is just arriving at a water gate and seawall onshore. An oarsman maneuvers the boat from the stern. In the bow, facing the gate is a standing figure clad entirely in white. Just behind the figure is a white, festooned object commonly interpreted as a coffin. The tiny islet is dominated by a dense grove of tall, dark cypress trees—associated by long-standing tradition with cemeteries and mourning—which is closely hemmed in by precipitous cliffs. Furthering the funerary theme are what appear to be sepulchral portals and windows on the rock faces.

Böcklin did describe it as “a dream picture: it must produce such a stillness that one would be awed by a knock on the door.”
Many observers have interpreted the oarsman as representing the boatman Charon who ferried souls to the underworld in Greek mythology. The water would then be either the River Styx or the River Acheron and his white-clad passenger a recently deceased soul transiting to the afterlife.

Greek island Pontikonisi, near Corfu, was probably the inspiration for the painting as well as the English Cemetery in Florence, Italy, where the first three versions were painted. The cemetery was close to Böcklin's studio and was also where his infant daughter Maria was buried.

Here we have the character Camera 9 (alias Stefan Vladuck), 00 Channel cameraman, as the soul, with his belongings, being ferried to the Isle of the Dead.

Please find in the additional images a digitally colored version (over the pencils) by Lavoradori himself.

Huge thanks, Alberto!

Paper size: 21 x 29.7 cm

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