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Between Scylla and Charybdis by Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl
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Artist: Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl
A naked man clings to a mast in a vertical wall of water between two deaths: the strait as a Symbolist vision of pure terror, painted in Rome in 1910.
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Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl, a Hungarian painter who spent the second half of his life in Rome, took Homer’s strait and removed everything but the fear. There is no ship, no crew, no monster with six heads and no whirlpool that you can point to. There is a man, naked, clinging to a spar, and a sea that rises around him like a wall, lit from somewhere below. Between Scylla and Charybdis is the title, and the painting is the phrase made visible: no way forward, no way back.
Painted in 1910, it belongs with the Symbolists’ Homer, alongside Renan’s Charybdis and Scylla and Böcklin’s islands, where the monsters have become states of mind. Our hand-painted reproduction is made in oil on canvas from the original, in its tall format, with the water built up in blues and greys.
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