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  Re: [WIP] The Blue Flower  
From: Mr  Art
Date: 25 Apr 2009 08:14:46
Message: <49f2feb6$1@news.povray.org>
Ah! I didn't know this. Thanks.

Ive wrote:
> Mr. Art wrote:
>> Just a question: Why is it called "The Blue Flower"? Is there some 
>> reference that I am missing?
> 
> There is no blue flower in the picture but there is a reminiscence to
> the "Blue Flower" seen as a symbolic reference to Romanticism - 
> including lyric, music and painting.
> Novalis, a German 18th century writer, used the "Blaue Blume" as
> metaphor for search for the unreachable, desire and unfulfilled love.
> 
> -Ive
>


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