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WINSLOW HOMER - ROCKY COAST (marked) Here is Homer's Rocky Coast with three objects animated. The boulder on the shore appears as an abstract face and also has an item protruding above the forehead. Especially with the protruding item above the forehead, the boulder suggests a Sphinx rock. The young man's face, in the top left marking, is very similar to the face in Vedder's painting Memory. At the same time, in spite of the realism of that face, the face is so amazingly subtle, that the clouds are not distorted by it, until after it is discovered. It becomes a switching image, switching between the face and the cloudy sky. Those two items, the Sphinx-like boulder and the young man's face, suggest that Homer's painting has a connection to his friend Elihu Vedder. The face on the top right is similar to Vedder's apprearance, but viewed in the context of the other two items, it seems to me that it actually is a representation of Elihu Vedder. The man on the shore, who is looking at the Sphinx-like rock, appears to represent Vedder's "Questioner." That man is holding a barrel, but I have not figured out the barrel's significance. |