Thoughts about "The way of Silence"

Thoughts about "The way of Silence"

1. The road would ever end

František Kupka has painted an interesting series of paintings, where are sphinxes. Those paintings can think to form the harmonic entirety, which begins from the road, where the sphinxes are side by side both sides of the road, and that painting might symbolize the calm, but somehow feeling, where the entire planet will wait for something.

There might be seen the character, who is walking in that alley, but there is no way to see, where that road will end. The thing in those paintings is that when the person is walking on this road, that character cannot turn away from it. The thing is that the night is calm and cold. but if the person would not reach the end before the sun is rising, that would cause problems.

2. Like turning to wrong way

In the painting "The way of Silence" František Kupka has trapped the feeling, what happens if the person would turn to shortcut, but that road would turn difficult, and the reasonable person would turn back. But the proud of the person would not let that walker do that.

That person would continue to walk on this road because that is the question of honor. If a person turns back, that means that the inmate confesses being wrong. And that means that the journey continues. Maybe Kupka played with the thought that the road is like life. If the person turns the wrong way, that means that the road must still walk until the end.

3. The "Resistance"

In this painting, what might portray the end of the road, is the giant sphinx, what will control the system. Or this is the way, how Kupka might think that thing. There is always the end of the road. And at the end of every road is the biggest actor, who controls the entire system.

So in this time, when I think about those two paintings, "The Road of Silence" and "The Resistance", I just think that has František Kupka been in some institute, where the entire personnel works as couples. And each group of those couples is consisting of the lines. But in the back of each line is the big and powerful character, what operates by using those couples.

4. Where Kupka taught the idea of those paintings?

The problem of that powerful character is that it can look only in one direction. That means that if the person is behind that character, it would not see that person or observer. That big and powerful character is only the shadow, what is treating the world, but it's unable to see small individuals.

When we are thinking about the names of those paintings, that might mean that there is a road or line, where are things, what is kept silent. And when we are following the line of people, who are silent, we would always face the truth. The thin, what uncovers the hidden secret is, that those people, who are taken part of the secrecy often become nervous when the thing is under discussion. And when we are following the line, we can face the truth.

Links to those paintings


The way of silence: http://moniqs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/kupka1.jpg

Resistance: https://66.media.tumblr.com/3f44c022e773707b8db514ce1603d110/tumblr_msqkz3Rim71sb4urwo1_1280.jpg