Endlessly fascinating!!! I love the little open gate and the little house attached. Thank you so much for sharing this discussion and for including the list of images at the end!
So glad you liked it. Just fyi, we always list, in order of appearance, all the works of art shown in a video on what we call the end card. The exception would be our very early videos from many years ago.
What a unique piece, I adore it. To bad one can't just buy a print to have it in some way ^^ I feel like the girl lying in the grass is dead, and the girl with the knife tries to chase the nightingale away. She thinks the bird has something to do with the death, not realizing it actually was the man (death?, a reaper?, a murderer?, war?). The figure in his arms representing the life/soul of the dead girl, which he literally takes away. The girl with the knife turns against a harmless bird, the closest creature she could see next to the other girl, making it responsible and maybe even trying to get revenge. She's too busy going after the perceived culprit to know who is the real one. And the world might seem a bit distorted and out of shape due to grieve or trauma, or during war times.
Really intriguing. I wonder what the open gate means? Is it showing hope or freedom from whatever has happened. Also like how he analyzes the background of the picture perhaps being historical or metaphorical.
I couldn't help but check out the nightingale song, and I wonder if Ernst was in part connecting the staccato part to WWI machine guns: th-cam.com/video/XdlIbNrki5o/w-d-xo.html. He could be borrowing the juxtaposition the bird itself uses, of lovely melody to staccato hammering, as a metaphor that becomes part of the painting through its title. Some titles, such as this one, seem intended as an element in the painting.
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I find this piece SO fascinating. Thank you, as always for sharing this illuminating discussion!
These videos make me feel smart 😊
Endlessly fascinating!!! I love the little open gate and the little house attached. Thank you so much for sharing this discussion and for including the list of images at the end!
So glad you liked it. Just fyi, we always list, in order of appearance, all the works of art shown in a video on what we call the end card. The exception would be our very early videos from many years ago.
I enjoyed hearing all the speculation about this painting - especially when Dr. Zucker spoke about potential metaphors. So interesting. :)
that things gonna be fun to restore
What a unique piece, I adore it. To bad one can't just buy a print to have it in some way ^^
I feel like the girl lying in the grass is dead, and the girl with the knife tries to chase the nightingale away. She thinks the bird has something to do with the death, not realizing it actually was the man (death?, a reaper?, a murderer?, war?). The figure in his arms representing the life/soul of the dead girl, which he literally takes away.
The girl with the knife turns against a harmless bird, the closest creature she could see next to the other girl, making it responsible and maybe even trying to get revenge. She's too busy going after the perceived culprit to know who is the real one.
And the world might seem a bit distorted and out of shape due to grieve or trauma, or during war times.
Muchas gracias Smarthistory.
You're welcome!
Thank you for a beautiful video.
Our pleasure!
Thank you so much for your insight!
You are so welcome!
I can't understand why would someone give this a thumbs down.
Really intriguing. I wonder what the open gate means? Is it showing hope or freedom from whatever has happened. Also like how he analyzes the background of the picture perhaps being historical or metaphorical.
Cool!
I couldn't help but check out the nightingale song, and I wonder if Ernst was in part connecting the staccato part to WWI machine guns: th-cam.com/video/XdlIbNrki5o/w-d-xo.html. He could be borrowing the juxtaposition the bird itself uses, of lovely melody to staccato hammering, as a metaphor that becomes part of the painting through its title. Some titles, such as this one, seem intended as an element in the painting.
Love this thought
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What if the woman is the nightingale not the bird?
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The Dadaists totally failed in their response to the war.
Dada wasn’t about anti war. It was about anti everything. The Dadaists were so hopeless that they decided to reject everything. Including art