Now look at this one:
I absolutely love it because I find it very inspiring. When I have a study of my own, I will put up a reproduction of this piece on a wall where I will always see it.
What does this piece tell you?
This artist has a language of his own, and this is why his art can be read like a book. Books, ladders and white birds are central to Gürbüz’s work.
A never-ending uncomfortable ladder. Very prosaic interpretation, i know. If I were a religious person it would lead me to God.
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I’m here by choice and I intend to reach the top.
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It looks like there is a satisfactory path. One still needs to be prepared for the unexpected.
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The climb is hard and long and just out of the climber’s reach, hence the ladder. But it is reachable. However the climber ultimate work rests on the hard work of other people, hence the pyramid, which is civilization, and not say, a mountain.
I haven’t ascribed a meaning to the sky — which is either sunrise or sunset. I don’t know whether the climber will reach the top of the pyramid before the end of the day but it doesn’t matter.
Very simple. And yet it isn’t as sugar coated as similar inspirational posters with the same message.
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I really like the point about the pyramid being the work of other people.
I totally dig this discussion.
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Not only the skills he expected to be helpful (the ladder) proved not to be so, but they even turned to do harm, since carrying a ladder makes climbing stairs harder. However, an unexpected path of the pyramid’s stairs seems to have been found. It’s harder than expected, but the man is determined not to give up. Whether he will reach his goal, we can’t know.
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I think what drives him is not so much the goal as the possibility of climbing.
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His work has very basic composition, which is normally a bad thing, but with his style it really helps to communicate the point. It has this this very elegant way of evoking the painting’s purpose before you stop to think and interpret it.
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I really like the nakedness of these pieces.
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No matter how high you go, there is always higher to go; sometimes you can only get so far, so you need extra help to get to what you know is there
I see this painting as being very hopeful, actually; the sky looks like dawn to me and in that case, this man is just starting out on his journey to climb as high as he can. If (on the other hand), it’s a sunset instead of dawn, perhaps he has almost reached the summit (heaven, perhaps?) but has the ladder just in case the stairs (his acts, his faith?) don’t go quite high enough.
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I like this reading, it is very close to my own.
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