In art, sunset / sunrise is a problem. It has become such a cliché that you can't paint or photograph it anymore without being kitsch. Same happened with Italy - it's too beautiful. Yet, there are artists who found ways to do so. Take Cy Twombly who wrote the word sunset between brackets in his landscape for The School of Fontainebleau, 1960. This (sunset) left it to the viewer to create the according head-image.
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(sunset) in the left corner of The School of Fontainebleau, 1960 |
In 1972 Andy Warhol was commissioned to make a series for the Hotel Marquette in Minneapolis. He serialised the sunset in not less than four hundred seventy-two of prints.