The Spartan Reader #2

Pablo Genovés: Precipitado

The enraged, lashing waves filling and tumbling through empty man made architectural structures of outstanding verticality, unfathomable depth, and intricate gothic design presents a sense of nature’s eerie dominance over the advanced civilizations and progress of the human race.  The acute detail in the architecture suggests the attentive and tedious hours spent on the miniscule features of the design.  The absence of human presence subtly displays an unsettling tragedy; it is as if a man spent his whole life on the wearisome work of development and improvement only to give up and leave it behind.  The length and depth of the buildings with their roman arches, gothic statues, and gaudy decoration creates an emphasis on the water’s ability to not only penetrate but completely fill any space.  The anger of the rolling waves reveals that the water is not only an inescapable presence, but is also an intimidating and overpowering force of nature.  The harsh waves and aggravated white caps seem to be screaming through the buildings and bursting through the walls as if the passionate rage of the sea is announcing its dominance over man.  Two of the world’s most beautiful, admired, and typically harmonized realms, nature and man-made artwork, are brought together to create an overwhelming contrast and scene of a hypnotic, apocalyptic chaos.