The painting is by Themistokles von Eckenbrecher (1842-1921)
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And his name—Themistokles von Eckenbrecher—sounds ready for a novel, with its explosive combination of consonants and the perfect, almost Hölderlinian cocktail of Greek and German... The Athenian hero on the one hand and the 'breaker of edges' on the other
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And a superb translation into concrete by French painter Jean-Pierre Ugarte (b. 1950)pic.twitter.com/UokcvAc3FF
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The Ōi Dam, located between the cities of Ena and Nakatsugawa in Gifu Prefecture, Japan [Source: http://blog-imgs-45.fc2.com/z/i/n/zin/DSC01038.jpg …]pic.twitter.com/43DsbJEQug
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Ruataniwha dam, New Zealand [Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jslicer1/4993658196 …]pic.twitter.com/7mGu6zwtrD
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Xiluodu Dam, Yangtze River, Yunnan Province, China (2012) as photographed by Edward Burtynsky https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/projects/photographs/water …pic.twitter.com/8qcPMLMbpe
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À propos of water on concrete: Wayne Haag's Maze Runner Concept Art https://ankaris.artstation.com/projects/ZaxG0 pic.twitter.com/d7gHUFzAw3
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Concrete perspective by Nigerian painter Abiodun Olaku (born 1958)pic.twitter.com/QCLlz8qtNu
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Meanwhile, in Norway... https://www.flickr.com/photos/astrid/35291433663/sizes/l …pic.twitter.com/D7jkVMyWUj
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Somehow this image closes the circle... From Eckenbrecher's fjordscapes in Norway to brutalist fjords and through water running on concrete back to Norway with a waterscape cut by a zigzagging breach in the space-time continuum
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