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拍品專文
Carl Johan Forsberg's 'lunar landscapes' stem from centuries of imagery and legends associated with the moon. Shakespeare's plays are among a significant quantity of literature that makes symbolic use of the moon, and by the turn of the 16th century, physicians across Europe were legally bound to calculate the position of the moon prior to complex medical procedures. However, by the early 20th century - the time of these pieces' conception - lunar imagery took on a very different meaning. Popular posters of the 1900s and 1920s represented figures sitting on, or above, the moon, thus implying that technical and industrial advances were such that even the moon was within our reach.
Dr. Robert H. Goddard, an American physicist and professor, strived to cover the distance between Earth and its natural satellite. Towards the end of his 1920 report, a mere five years after Forsberg's works, Goddard put forward the possibility of a rocket reaching the moon and depositing flash powder there to mark its arrival. He remarked, ''It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow". With this quote in mind, Carl Johan Forsberg's works could be seen as the 'dream' that preceded the successful testing of a liquid gas-fuelled rocket in 1926. Their subject matter was entirely unique, even fantastical, at the time they were created. Nevertheless, it did make an accurate prediction of the achievements to come. The pieces are also highly imaginative from a visual point of view, bearing in mind that the first manned moon landing only occurred in 1969 - over five decades later.
Dr. Robert H. Goddard, an American physicist and professor, strived to cover the distance between Earth and its natural satellite. Towards the end of his 1920 report, a mere five years after Forsberg's works, Goddard put forward the possibility of a rocket reaching the moon and depositing flash powder there to mark its arrival. He remarked, ''It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow". With this quote in mind, Carl Johan Forsberg's works could be seen as the 'dream' that preceded the successful testing of a liquid gas-fuelled rocket in 1926. Their subject matter was entirely unique, even fantastical, at the time they were created. Nevertheless, it did make an accurate prediction of the achievements to come. The pieces are also highly imaginative from a visual point of view, bearing in mind that the first manned moon landing only occurred in 1969 - over five decades later.