Actually listed as "Untitled" this large work by the German artist Anselm Kiefer is dated 1945.

"This work belongs to a series of images that Kiefer created by juxtaposing the dark fossilized forms of sunflowers with images of a naked man. For Kiefer, dead sunflowers with their heads packed with seeds are potent symbols of death and rebirth. Here, they are joined by a figure who resembles the artist but may be Robert Fludd, a sixteenth-century English occultist who believed that every plant in the world had its own equivalent star in the firmament. In this dramatic woodcut presentation, with its attendant nationalistic connotations, Kiefer suggests a link between the individual and the cosmos."

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 915.

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Over the Palisades and the Hudson River. Then the rain came.

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This being the final year of Lord &Taylor Fifth Avenue, there isn't much to see. But I have a few oldies that I've never posted.

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The waterfall in the Thomas H. Everett designed Alpine Rock Garden of the New York Botanical Garden.

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