Marsden Hartley artwork - Painting No 48
The number 8 seems to explode into the foreground of this painting, separating itself from a vibrant pattern of colors and shapes. Writing from Berlin, where he painted this work, Marsden Hartley revealed that the painting represented the mystical embodiment of “eight” (in many religions, a number associated with transcendence from the material to the spiritual). Although he offered no additional explanation, hints of his experience of pre–World War I Germany emerge in the arrangement of forms that are suggestive of military insignias and the brash sounds of military bands - Brooklyn Museum.
Size: 4572px × 4606px
Location: Brooklyn Museum, USA
Photo credit: © steeve-x-art / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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