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Per Vultus Speculum
This SupremePunk is inspired by CryptoPunk #561 and the work of Jonathan Borofsky. Jonathan Borofsky is a contemporary American artist best known for his sculptures for specific locations, color lithographs and prints. Known for combining the media and juxtaposing seemingly contrasting images, the artist's works use esoteric ideas related to dreams, labor, tragedy and numbers as catalysts for his ambitious projects. In his public sculpture "Going to Heaven" (2004), a 100-foot-high steel pole is tilted upwards with figures walking vertically towards the sky, in a poetic depiction of humanity's desire to explore and understand the universe.
Jonathan Borofsky — Walking to the sky, 2004
The sculpture is alternately put on public display in the largest cities of the world - at the moment the list already includes Dallas, Pittsburgh and Seoul. The height of the Walking to the Sky composition is thirty meters.
Marc Chagall — Over the City, 1918
Marc Chagall's paintings are surreal, unique. His early work "On the City" is no exception. The main characters of the picture, Marc Chagall himself and his beloved Bella, fly over their native Vitebsk (Belarus). Chagall portrayed the most pleasant feeling in the world. The feeling of mutual love. When you can't feel the ground under your feet. When you become one with your beloved. When you don't notice anything around. When you're just flying with happiness.
Marc Chagall's paintings are surreal, unique. His early work "On the City" is no exception. The main characters of the picture, Marc Chagall himself and his beloved Bella, fly over their native Vitebsk (Belarus). It seems that we see all the signs of a town, or rather a large village, which was Vitebsk 100 years ago. There is a temple and houses here. And even a more pompous building with columns. And, of course, a lot of fences. But still, the city is not like that. The houses are intentionally lopsided, as if the artist does not own perspective and geometry. A kind of childish approach. This makes the town more fabulous, toylike. Enhances our feeling of being in love. After all, in this state, the world around is significantly distorted. Everything becomes more joyful. And many things are not noticed at all.
Markus Lupertz — Style: Eurydice, 1978
Lupertz is considered to be part of the "new wild" movement, although he started before this name appeared. In the 1960s, he wrote on the verge of abstraction and objectivity, on a large scale, pathos and symbolically. Then the artist turns to the taboo topics in defeated Germany related to the mythology of the German spirit. The painting "Style: Eurydice" refers to a series of five works devoted to the theme of death, interpreted as a mystical ritual. The source of inspiration for the author is the ancient history of Eurydice, on the basis of which he creates a new mythology of the 20th century.
The artist places his large semi-abstract, semi-figurative forms as if on the stage of a classical antique theater decorated with goat skulls - symbols of death. Lupertz did not accidentally call his painting "dithyrambic": he really composes a solemn and at the same time disturbing chant about inexorable fate and a separate fate, about the inseparability of triumph and defeat. His praises are addressed to the painting itself, at that time celebrating its return to the field of contemporary art.

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