“Cartas a niños”
While in “Melencolia Nova” there is a preexisting engraving inserted in the painting, on the contrary, “Cartas a niños” (“Letters to Children”) (2014) uses an inner image to emphasize the contrast between the environment of the children, strange but peaceful, and the threat the arises from the painting between them, showing a character painted in dark colors against a white background. The girl is taking the frame apart, as if stopping the effect coming from the painting, whilst from it, the figure conjuring up a shameful world seems to look at the child who is innocently playing with the pieces of a construction game and setting them up as an echo of the towers in the background, inspired by the ones we see from the foot of the castle of Trujillo. The blue book placed vertically in the basket at the left of the painting, Letters to Children, a collection of those written by Lewis Carroll to Alice Riddle and her friends, proposes that which, with a small variation, will be the title of the painting.
While in “Melencolia Nova” there is a preexisting engraving inserted in the painting, on the contrary, “Cartas a niños” (“Letters to Children”) (2014) uses an inner image to emphasize the contrast between the environment of the children, strange but peaceful, and the threat the arises from the painting between them, showing a character painted in dark colors against a white background. The girl is taking the frame apart, as if stopping the effect coming from the painting, whilst from it, the figure conjuring up a shameful world seems to look at the child who is innocently playing with the pieces of a construction game and setting them up as an echo of the towers in the background, inspired by the ones we see from the foot of the castle of Trujillo. The blue book placed vertically in the basket at the left of the painting, Letters to Children, a collection of those written by Lewis Carroll to Alice Riddle and her friends, proposes that which, with a small variation, will be the title of the painting.
