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The Art of Robert Doisneau – Le combat du centaure ( sculpture 1888-1900 by Gustave Crauk. Mairie du VIe arrondissement, Paris. ), 1971

The viewers of this work of art are dwarfed. It speaks of the intention of the original artist of this sculpture. It was meant to make humans feel small and inconsequential. Hundred of years later, through a photograph, it is accomplishing the same thing.

At the same time, the image is also of the two people, man and woman, viewing the sculpture. They are becoming important to as they are photographed. They are now also a work of art. The viewers are rigid, static. The sculpture is writhing and appears to be moving. There is a play of contrasts here.

The figures in the foreground are dark, the sculpture is illuminated.

This is a comment on contrasts; large and small, light and dark, static and writhing …