Posted on May 5, 2025 
by arslohgo
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“Picardy Landscape (Blue Ribbon)”—A brief stop on a French national road and a quick photograph of the surroundings provide the foundation for the complete work “L’agriculture picarde et éoliennes” (Arable and Wind Farming in Picardy). The work consists of three differently colored ribbons, each featuring four variations of the original image.
Do wind turbines conflict with cultivated landscapes? Do they destroy landscape aesthetics? How does a van Gogh-inspired rendering compare with photorealistic representation? Does replacing modern technology with structures from van Gogh’s era improve the landscape’s visual impact? Or is land consolidation the only solution?
In my view, the juxtaposition of wind power and nature possesses its own aesthetic appeal without truly destroying the landscape. After all, landscape “destruction” began much earlier through cultivation itself. Aren’t wind turbines simply another expression of our drive to cultivate?
[A] The combination of the background of the picture and another visual object may evoke an (English) term that is ambiguous in German and thus “calls up a second theme”.
[B] In addition, this combination may result in a new subject or an invented word through an equally pronounced but differently spelled word combination, as well as through a differently pronounced but equally spelled word.
[C] Sometimes it is the title of the work that reveals the background and thematic association of the image.
[D] And in the one or other case it is just a modified photograph.