Volker Fischer, Master Curator, Art Historian and Critic, Former Senior Curator of the Museum of Arts and Craft (MAK) Frankfurt, Former Vice Director of the German Museum of Architecture (DAM) Frankfurt, Honorary Professor of the Academy of Art and Design, Offenbach am Main / Frankfurt. Color lithograph plate-signed by Salvador Dali from the edition of 4 980 published by Armand & Georges Israel in 1983. Additionally, the Cosmos that the artist has applied to this image resets Homer’s Trojan Horse, to its original context of mythology, exculpated from rational classicism. The birth of historiography is therefore the narration. Preceding any historically accurate tradition was the narrative, a poetic disclosure of past events, for which Homer is known as the first exponent. The background at the image’s centre is lightened, so that an almost baroque illusionary space arises. The Trojan Horse stands in a field of archetypal and mythological creatures that seem to belong more to the legends and the demi-mondes of JR Tolkien than to the ancient epic of Homer. Pencil Hb-8b / 300gsm card Tags: #abstract #landscape #abstract art #abstract landscape #surrealism #fantasy #surreal art #mysterious #fantasy art #mythology #historical #fantasy landscape #surrealist #myth and legend #myth #trojan horse #trojan Volker Fischer, Master Curator, Art Historian and Critic, Former Senior Curator of the Museum of Arts and Craft (MAK) Frankfurt, Former Vice Director of the German Museum of Architecture (DAM) Frankfurt, Honorary Professor of the Academy of Art and Design, Offenbach am Main / Frankfurt. The Greeks could not enter the city or win the war. The Greeks waged war on Troy to win Helen of Troy back. The war started when Helen, the queen of Sparta, was kidnapped by Paris, prince of Troy. In the Trojan War, the Greeks were fighting against the city of Troy. The Trojan War was one of the most important events in Greek mythology. The Trojan Horse is a large wooden horse from the Trojan War in Greek mythology. The birth of historiography is therefore the narration. The Building of the Trojan Horse and The Procession of the Trojan Horse are part of a series illustrating the fall of Troy, an ancient city on the coast of Turkey that was besieged by Greek armies for ten years.
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