Lena Hades' Oil Cycle From Nietzsche's 'Zarathustra'
These surreal oils by Russian artist Hades were part of a mid-1990s series illustrating certain scenes within Friedrich Nietzsche's 'Also Sprach Zarathustra' ... the music is Nietzsche's 1862 composition 'Ungarischer Marsch' ('Hungarian March') for piano ...
In order (using English translations of the German text in the works):
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"I tell you: one must still have Chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star..."
1997, oil on canvas, 54 by 70 inches
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"And the blindness of the blind one, and his seeking and groping, shall yet testify to the power of the sun into which he hath gazed,- did ye know that before?"
1996, oil on canvas, 35,5 by 43,3 inches
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"Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit."
1996, oil on canvas, 31 by 39 inches
In order (using English translations of the German text in the works):
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"I tell you: one must still have Chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star..."
1997, oil on canvas, 54 by 70 inches
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"And the blindness of the blind one, and his seeking and groping, shall yet testify to the power of the sun into which he hath gazed,- did ye know that before?"
1996, oil on canvas, 35,5 by 43,3 inches
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"Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit."
1996, oil on canvas, 31 by 39 inches
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