Too Soon for Thunder (1943)
Kay Sage
American, 1898-1963
Oil on canvas
Kay Sage, an American, was associated with the Surrealist movement, which explored the expression of an alternative reality through the unconscious mind and dream imagery. Too Soon for Thunder is a desolate landscape, filled with enigmatic, architectural motifs and draped, skeletal phantoms. Of a similar image Sage explained, "It's a sort of showing what's inside-things half mechanical, half alive. The mountain itself can represent almost anything-a human, life, the world, any fundamental thing…I do know that while I'm painting, I feel as though I am living in the place." 🔺
Maverick Mist 
How very interesting
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Yes, different. 🙂
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I like this a lot with the mix of cir ed lin
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Fat finger problem: … mix of curved and straight lines and angles. My very fist thought on seeing the painting was morrel mushroom with a cape.
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Now that you said it I can see the morrel mushroom. 🙂
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Love the feel of this. The organic forms really pop out amidst the linear landscape. Stunning use of shadows. Thanks for sharing. ❤
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Thanks for your nice comment Olga. 🙂
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Surrealism has always intrigued me..the painting always has layers of meaning to it.
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Some of can be very good and as you say have layers of meaning. 🙂
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Yes I was introduced to surrealism through Salvador Dali.And I got hooked to it.I gave written apoem around his melting clocks theme .will share some day
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