Four Paintings Starring the Moon – Coleridge & Symbolic Language

Four paintings by Adam Cope starring the Moon

 

‘Le Noyer’
1997
87 x 70 cm
Oil on Canvas
© The Artist.

 

‘L’Esperance’
2004
73 x 54 cm
Oil on Canvas
© The Artist
‘La Lune Rousse’
2007
30 x 40 cm
oil on panel
© the artist


‘Landorre, Quercy’
2008
6 figure (41 x 33 cm)
oil on panel
© the artist

 

Coleridge talking about the looking at moon & symbolic language

In looking at objects of Nature while I am thinking, as at yonder moon dim-glimmering through the dewy window-pane, I seem rather to be seeking, as it were asking for, a symbolical language for something within me that already and for ever exists, than observing anything new. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge . April14 1805.