Video: Fingal's Cave that inspired Turner, Mendelssohn, Pink Floyd and Matthew Barney
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Fingal's Cave, located on the Scottish island of Staffa, looks like it straight out of the pages of some fantastic epic. Or as a decoration from Lego. Film . It is not surprising that for three centuries it has been a place of artistic pilgrimage, and has inspired the work of many famous artists, musicians and writers.
Celtic legend says that the cave was once part of a huge bridge across the sea, built by giants to fight each other (the other end of the bridge is the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland, famous for its similar "blocky" landscape). Science claims that it was formed from lava, which, as it slowly cooled, shattered into long hexagonal pillars, like mud that cracks as it dries in the sun.
In Gaelic, the cave is called "Uamh-Binn", which can be translated as "cave of melodies." Thanks to the dome-shaped vault, this place has a unique acoustics. The whimsically transformed sounds of the surf are heard throughout the interior of the cave, which makes it look like a gigantic cathedral not made by hands.
The discoverer of the cave was the naturalist Joseph Banks, who visited these places in 1772. Attracted by the fame of this miracle of nature, the island was visited by Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Alfred Tennyson, Jules Verne, August Strindberg (the cave is the scene of one of his works), Queen Victoria and the artist Joseph Turner, who painted a landscape with a view in 1832 caves. In the same year, the composer Felix Mendelssohn named his overture after her.
The cave continued to attract creative people as the 19th century romanticism gave way to modernism and postmodernism. One of Pink Floyd's unreleased soundtracks to Antonioni's Zabriskie Point is called Fingal's Cave. It also served as the filming location for the third film in the experimental series Cremaster (2002) by American contemporary artist Matthew Barney.
Another amazing cave that we talked about in the last review is called Apostle Islands National Lakeshore and is located in the north of the United States of America.
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