F T Kettering
ArtistUSA
About Artist:
“You will want to learn this by heart,” our German teacher said, while handing out copies of Herbsttag. She was right. Rilke’s musical, elegiac poem comes to mind every autumn. Sometimes, walking alone in the woods, I find myself reciting it aloud. Like most great poems, Herbsttag resists a satisfying translation. Here is the matter without the music:
Fall Day Rainer Maria Rilke
Lord, it is time. Summer has been grand.
Lay your shadows now across the sundials;
let your winds flow free upon the fields.
Tell the tardy grapes to ripen.
Give them just a few more southern days.
Urge them to perfection then, and chase
their sweetness into weighty wine.
Who has no house now, will never build.
Who is now alone, will long remain so;
will lie awake and read and write long letters,
and wander to and fro on tree-lined streets,
restless, as the leaves come floating down.
About Artwork:
Fall Day differs from my previous diptychs. Again the left side records a memorable moment; the right side, a response to it. Here, however, both what I saw and what I felt were shaped by the imagery and moods of Rilke’s poem.
F T Kettering
Fall Day
- 2019
- 75 x 36 inches
- Fine Art Category: photography
- Medium: Pigment print
- Origin: USA
- Signed: Signed verso
- Comments:
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Fall Day is a new work, never shown before.
Each diptych will ship in a sturdy mailing tube, as two high-quality, semi-gloss digital inkjet prints, each 36" by 36" (or smaller, if you prefer). Both sheets will be numbered and signed en verso - one with my name, one with my monogram.
Buyers are encouraged to choose their own format for framing and display, e.g. fine art foam board; narrow (black) metal frames; a wooden, hinged, free-standing, diptych frame.
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- Price: $5,000.00 USD
- Seller: F T Kettering, USA
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- Artplode ID: 4714
- Artplode Seller ID: 1520
About Artist:
“You will want to learn this by heart,” our German teacher said, while handing out copies of Herbsttag. She was right. Rilke’s musical, elegiac poem comes to mind every autumn. Sometimes, walking alone in the woods, I find myself reciting it aloud. Like most great poems, Herbsttag resists a satisfying translation. Here is the matter without the music:
Fall Day Rainer Maria Rilke
Lord, it is time. Summer has been grand.
Lay your shadows now across the sundials;
let your winds flow free upon the fields.
Tell the tardy grapes to ripen.
Give them just a few more southern days.
Urge them to perfection then, and chase
their sweetness into weighty wine.
Who has no house now, will never build.
Who is now alone, will long remain so;
will lie awake and read and write long letters,
and wander to and fro on tree-lined streets,
restless, as the leaves come floating down.
About Artwork:
Fall Day differs from my previous diptychs. Again the left side records a memorable moment; the right side, a response to it. Here, however, both what I saw and what I felt were shaped by the imagery and moods of Rilke’s poem.
