My Eyes at the Moment of the Apparitions | August Natterer | 1911-13 Select Size:48" x 32" blurring the boundary between menace

blurring the boundary between menace and mockery

Cogniet’s decision to exclude blood and action makes the scene far more powerful—the true violence lies in the mother’s fear and helplessness

The painting is rich in symbolism

which was banned and ordered to be burned by the Church at the Council of Trent

My Eyes at the Moment of the Apparitions | August Natterer | 1911-13 Select Size:48" x 32" blurring the boundary between menaceAbout the artwork: My Eyes at the Moment of the Apparitions by August Natterer (191113) is one of the artists most revealing works, a drawing in which he attempts to capture the exact instant he believed he witnessed a supernatural vision. Rather than depicting a literal pair of eyes, Natterer constructs an abstract, almost mechanical structure that seems to fracture and multiply the act of seeing, as if his perception itself had broken open. The