Colour Emblematics and Chromotherapeutic Emotion in the Paintings of D. H. Lawrence

An interesting place to start a consideration of the significance of colour in Lawrence’s paintings is the picture entitled Close-Up (Kiss). The two main commentators of Lawrence’s artwork, Robert Millett and Keith Sagar, both feel that the picture is decidedly satirical. Robert Millett argues that...

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Vydáno v:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/lawrence,
Hlavní autor: Martiny, Erik
Médium: Article ou chapitre numérique
Jazyk:Anglais
Vydáno: Études Lawrenciennes 2013
On-line přístup:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Shrnutí:An interesting place to start a consideration of the significance of colour in Lawrence’s paintings is the picture entitled Close-Up (Kiss). The two main commentators of Lawrence’s artwork, Robert Millett and Keith Sagar, both feel that the picture is decidedly satirical. Robert Millett argues that the painting represents what Lawrence saw as the postlapsarian state which lead to merely “self-watching, self-conscious” desire (55). According to Millett, Lawrence’s “antagonism for the Cold Pas...