작품 상세

Artist: A. M. CASSANDRE (Adolphe Mouron, 1901-1968) Size: 24 1/8 x 38 1/8 in./61.5 x 98.6 cm Alliance Graphique, Paris “Instead of ‘a sleek oceangoing vessel,’ as writers often describe modern ships, Cassandre’s rendition [of The Atlantic] becomes a mammoth wall of steel that towers in fantastic and unreal fashion over a minuscule tugboat. He further adds to this startling effect by collapsing the upper decks and the three smokestacks so that they appear almost flat. [He] also distorts perspective in an ingenious way; the stern of the ship extends into the front of the top decks as well as down from them ... into the ocean to form a reflection. When taken together, all of these elements, along with the block of text, form one awesome rectangular shape that passes through a ‘wreath’ formed by the coming together of the smoke from the tugboat and the steamship” (Brown & Reinhold, p. 16).