Source<\/a><\/p>\nIncidentally, the painting is for sale for $300, or it is possible to buy prints for $30 at the above site.<\/p>\n
There is much to like about this painting.\u00a0 The colours are rich and dramatic, and the setting is interesting.\u00a0 The dark sky at the top of the painting creates a slightly imposing and forbidding impression, maybe symbolising both the coming of night and of a disaster.\u00a0 From a technical perspective if it also interesting.\u00a0 First, the artist has captured the role of tectonic setting in landslides.\u00a0 On the fight, at the toe of slope, there is a clear fault – presumably a thrust given the configuration – implying a danger of earthquakes.\u00a0 The skies are clear, so maybe this is meant to symbolise an impending earthquake-triggered event. \u00a0 The lithologies under the village show small amounts of tectonic folding too – perhaps parasitic folds on the major fault.\u00a0 The thicknesses of the individual units vary considerably, maybe suggesting that these are young, Flysch-type deposits on the margin of the mountains.\u00a0 The landslide itself is clearly rotational;\u00a0 the main block has been heavily disrupted, suggesting an older feature.\u00a0 Extending up the slope are two retrogressive components; part of one of is threatening two houses, both of which have lights on (i.e. the are occupied).\u00a0 Note that the lithologies are displaced across the shear surfaces – movement has already occurred on these surfaces.\u00a0 The steep scarp in the middle block may hint at some earlier movement event.<\/p>\n
All-in-all this captures the silent, threatening nature of landslides, with an unsuspecting population at risk of disaster.<\/p>\n
Thoughts and comments please on both this series of posts and on this particular piece, and I also welcome ideas for future postings on this theme<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The latest edition of landslides in art, this time featuring a painting by the Italian artist Raimondo Motta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":2573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[502,469,36,139],"class_list":["post-2572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art","tag-featured","tag-italy","tag-painting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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