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Last updated on November 23, 2024.
Ferdinand Hodler was one of the best-known Swiss painters of the nineteenth century.
His early works were portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings in a realistic style. Later, he adopted a personal form of symbolism which he called "parallelism".
When you look up at the sky, you have a feeling of unity which delights you and makes you giddy.
Color exists simultaneously with form. Both elements are constantly associated but color strikes you more - a rose for instance - sometimes form - the human body.
The work of art will bring to light a new order inherent in things, and this will be: the idea of unity.