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Carel Willink
Landscape with a Nuclear Reactor, 1982
Carel Willink painted tolerable visions of the approaching apocalypse into his old age. Beneath furry looking clouds are two sculptures from the Italian sculpture garden Bomarzo. A nuclear power plant in the middle represents late-20th-century cultural pessimism. In his tribute to Willink, the poet
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Josip Brodsky wrote, ‘Perhaps this is the future. A setting for introspection. [...] Maybe also a past. Unsurpassable despair [...]. Mastery [is] an ability to live without panic.’
Text: Chris Reinewald
From: Museum MORE: 100 jaar realisme, 2020, Gorssel
Artist
Carel Willink
Title
Landscape with a Nuclear Reactor
Year
1982
Technique
Oil on canvas
Size
71 x 81 cm (h x w)
Type of object
Painting
Copyright
© Pictoright
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