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Sunday, October 22, 2006

Love relationship Charlotte and Daberlohn

(pictures are used for educational purpose only)

On this gouache you see, Daberlohn and Charlotte. You can see this gouache as one of the most intimate of the whole series. It can express a couple of things. Either you see this gouache as the climax of their relationship or you can see it as the repression of Charlotte in their relation ship. Because of the way that this gouache is painted, we don’t think it expresses a lot of love. The yellow colour is not exactly very romantic. This is a prove that it isn’t easy for us to see the difference between making love or having sex. So now is the moment for you to decide which one defines this gouache…

4 Comments:

  • You can really see that this is no romance. The colour is very cold and the bodies have no expression.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Monday, October 23, 2006 3:05:00 pm  

  • It's hard to believe that Charlotte can live with the fact that Daberlohn is in love with her stephmother. That has to be very difficult for her and you can find that in her gouaches.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Monday, October 23, 2006 3:07:00 pm  

  • I can't understand that she could love someone knowing that that person was in love with someone else, especially when 'the second lover' is your stephmother!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Thursday, October 26, 2006 8:19:00 pm  

  • The way they are lying there expresses something primitive in my opinion.
    There's a huge distance between their heads and they are hardly looking at eachother? But I wonder why Charlotte would paint something she desired that much like it didn't mean a thing?
    ...
    Maybe she paints what she's scared of, that Daberlohn doesn't love her... (?)

    By Blogger firefly, at Tuesday, January 02, 2007 7:59:00 pm  

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