The Picardy landscape in van Gogh style (Transformation Two, blue ribbon) represents the second variation of the original “Picardy landscape” motif. The original photograph has been transformed with an overall bluish tone, and the second half rendered in a van Gogh-inspired style that differs slightly from the first variation. In the van Gogh-styled portion, modern wind turbines have been replaced with late medieval windmills.
This landscape photograph was taken shortly before reaching Amiens in Picardy. The image has been modified in both color (blue ribbon) and partial stylistic treatment. It forms part of the “Arable and wind farming” theme and belongs to the Dinard series.
[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.