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painting. This writer ponders
whether that color symbolizes
the synthesis in Darwin's
persona of the built, natural
and spiritual world.
Here, Darwin personifies the
made man, the fully formed, he
who is capable of inquiry, analysis
and thought, derived from the
worlds of engineering, science,
nature studies and the spiritual.
Occupying this emotional space
is a sort of death, the occupant
moving from the unaware to the
conscious, to the enlightened.
One is reminded of T.S. Eliot's
poem, "The Journey of the
Magi". Witnessing great events
or recognizing new truths result
in a death of old curricula and the
birth of the new. The artist's use
of violet to distinguish Darwin's
head seems, through the use
of a color often associated with
royalty and the high-born, to
imply a heightened position,
the primary colors, the godly
conduit.
HYLAND
