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Bulletin du Musée National de Varsovie — 23.1982

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Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna: Navigatio Vitae: elements of Emblematic Symbolism in 17th century Dutch seascapes
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15. Wols, Le bateau ivre (after Beitrage zur Moiivkunde des 19. Jahrhunderts, Miinchen, 1970,

p. 244)

The concept of navigatio vitae was particnlarly dear to the times of Romanticism. Paintings
hy Delacroix, Gćricault and notably by Friedrich illustrate, perhaps the most convincingly,
the eternal wandering of man between birth and death, pain, slavery and suffering, and even
the fatalism of history. They present the terrifying mood accompanying the element of the
sea that the Romantics also identified with the energy of the liberating spirit, with rebirth and
catharsis60. Does Wols's abstract painting Le bateau ivre of 1945 not unspire the same feelings?61
Perhaps the tangle of lines here is the complex nexus of the man's fate who could say after
Arthur Rimbaud:

Plus leger qu'un bouchon j'ai danse sur les flots
Qu'on appelle rouleurs eternels des yictimes...62

€0. See: M. Kruszewska, Inlroduction to: S. Przybyszewski, Na morzu [On the Sea), Gdańsk, 1978, p. 8.

61. Cf. E, Hiłttinger, op. cit., p. 240. .....

62. A. Rmjbaud, Bateau ivre. ■ , i

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