Khnopff I Lock The Door Upon Myself

We re in munich at the neue pinakothek and we re looking at the work of a belgian artist fernand khnopff.

Khnopff i lock the door upon myself.

The title of the painting is a quotation from a christina rossetti poem. Aside from the curvilinear form of the woman locked behind a table of some sort or is it an altar or a tomb the painting is dominated by circles squares and rectangles and everything including the woman herself is painted. Khnopff s similar establishment of an age worn interior as trance inducing space in i lock the door upon myself although not noted in current literature was highlighted by emile verhaeren in an 1892 review of the work when it was first exhibited with les xx. Watts edward burne jones and their circle.

But who shall wall self from myself most loathed of all. Fernand khnopff was not a pre raphaelite painter but i wanted to share his 1891 painting i lock my door upon myself which draws inspiration from christina rossetti s poem who shall deliver me. Background detail fernand khnopff i lock the door upon myself 1891 oil on canvas 72 7 x 141 cm neue pinakothek munich in the foreground of the painting are the three distinct sets of withering orange irises which punctuate the three part composition. I lock my door upon myself and bar them out.

And all the voluntary solitude the abandonment of others for the. Fernand khnopff i lock my door upon myself 1891 oil on canvas 72 7 x 141 cm neue pinakothek munich painting and poetry the aim of the symbolists was to turn away from what they saw as the materialism of impressionism. I lock my door upon myself. Khnopff s title comes specifically from this stanza.

The title of the painting is i lock my door upon myself from a poem by christina rossetti called who shall deliver me. In the 1890 s khnopff regularly visited britain and established friendships with g f. Inalienable weight of care.