Melancholy

With graphics, it all begins - the first sketch in pencil, preceding any design. It is attractive, you want to consider and consider it, and there is always something to consider, and light and shadow, and day and night, and white and black, a line, a spot, a stroke, a dot.
One of the mysterious engravings of the past is Albrecht Durer's "Melancholy". In this paper, there are a lot of symbols, allegories, thoughtful compositions. The engraving depicts such a melancholy, not a depressive state of it, when everything is bad, but an easy state of fatigue and reverie. In this engraving there are a lot of riddles, it must be slowly considered and looked into each element of this work.

Melancholy

30.11.2017