CHRISTIANE POOLEY
CHRISTIANE POOLEY
RUDYARD KIPLING'S IF
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Format 30X40
Unframed poster. We also offer frames for sale on the site.
Old mill premium white paper 300g
Perseverance Collection
Interpretation of the poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling by the artist Christiane Pooley.
This is a poem that Rudyard Kipling dedicates to his son John, who has just entered adolescence. Written at the very beginning of the 20th century, it celebrates the virtues of stoicism in the Victorian era, where it was proper to hold back one's emotions and dominate one's passions. This society distinguished the strong, intrepid and hardened man from the weak man, slave to his feelings. Today, the interpretation is different. We are sensitive beings, and it is normal to express our emotions. We do not always choose what happens to us but we always have the power to choose how and react.
In the work, created by Christiane Pooley for Une histoire au mur, illustrating the famous poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling, the character blends into the decor. The desert void facing the young man invites us to contemplate the horizon. It symbolizes the path to be taken, without a clear path, to become "a man", and thus echoes Kipling's poem "If".
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