The_Athanor

The Athanor The Athanor Athanor was a large furnace used by alchemists who transmuted lead...into gold, as history states, "the fire which the alchemist tames is...not one of destruction but of purification." The nazis used this and in their minds it was for purification as well, but everyone else seen it as horrifying destruction. Anselm Kiefer created this painting in between the 1970’s and 1980’s. He himself a German, demonstrates the darkness of the holocaust in this piece of art. The Painting shows a hall that leads to a furnace door. The painting uses a good form of visual perspective. The vertical lines of the flooring tile lead you to the door, where as the horizontal lines drift you off to the sides some but not completely. The contrast of light and dark colors help with the continuation of this perspective as well. The lighter grays and other colors are up in the front of the painting, where as, the further back the painting athanor, painting, furnace, colors, visual, today, shows, purification, piece, perspective, look, lines, kiefer, holocaust, door, destruction, darker, dark, creating, created, art, anselm, work, word, very, vertical, using, upon, trying, transmuted, toward, tone, tile, thus, throughout, textured