
When The Forest Calls

by Theresa Tahara
Title
When The Forest Calls
Artist
Theresa Tahara
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
Chosen for the cover of an International Literary Magazine in 2014.
As if in a dream, a woman runs through a dark mysterious forest towards a beckoning light. Impressionist style of photography.
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. ~ John Muir
Symbolist Art
If there is one central tenet held by Symbolist artists, it is that life is fundamentally mysterious, and the artist must respect and preserve this mystery. Thus they insisted on suggestion rather than explicitness, symbols or equivalents rather than description, in both painting and poetry. Choosing music as their model, Symbolists found the creation of a mood to be as important as the transmission of information, and sought to engage the entire mind and personality of the viewer by appealing to the viewer�s emotions and unconscious mind as well as intellect. The recognition that there was a major portion of mental activity that is closed to the conscious mind confirmed the Symbolists conviction that there was more to life than could be explained through positivist science.
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This is a combination of two of my photographs with 3 textures added.
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October 1st, 2013
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Comments (95)

Reynold Jay
Simply wonderful and it is nice to see it graced the cover of ILM ! This is a lovely work of art. FAVORITE!

Gate Gustafson
This reminds me of the universe of Fernand Khnopff, and that of Leon Spilliaert. Fabulous.
Theresa Tahara replied:
How interesting. Although I wasn't familiar with these two artists until I looked them up just now, I love art from their era. Thank you for introducing me to them. :-))

Heather King
This is so INCREDIBLY beautiful Theresa, so enchanting and hypnotic, I am utterly SMITTEN with this piece it's a work of art!!! So beautiful that I wish I had created it! Stunning my dear FV/L