Vilhelm Hammershøi, Danish
Dystopian Vision of a Future Where They Actually Do Ban TikTok, 1902
Oil on canvas
Follow That Is Priceless on Social Media and GoComics (the Link button):
Click to Follow This Blog or Share This Masterpiece:
MASTERPIECE #3318
Info about this artist is pointed to by links in my comment at another blog entry.
/// Colors muted, the room stark and plain,
daylight dimmed by a cold, steady rain.
Vilhelm’s wife sits alone.
She sighs… more like a groan.
“Melancholy” embodies this Dane.
/// The tall stove in the corner is cool.
Danes are frugal and don’t burn much fuel.
If the room became warm,
Ida’s look might conform.
Here, plain, dark, covered-up outfits rule.
/// Vilhelm thought their gray tablecloth dreary.
He replaced it with one bright and cheery.
But the red color takes
a toll— Ida’s head aches.
Stimulation has made her grow weary.
/// Ida reads from a book which devotes
several chapters to well-researched quotes
which the editors chose
as definitive prose
culled from hundreds of suicide notes.