![]() Rounded lines are contrasted sharply vertical, almost real smoke emanating from the boiler. It characterizes the magician as a sovereign not only of the real world and the supernatural. In the Ancient East, the sickle was an essential symbol of Royal power, and in antiquity meant the division of the world of the living and the dead. In his left hand the magician holds a scythe, which is also known as the magic circle, and a shiny gold pot forms a circle and gives a special rhythm of the composition. Woman outlines in the sand with a thin cane magic circle around himself, while making it easy, if the staff moves by itself, continuing the line of the arm. She's obviously a witch, a prophetess or priestess. In the center of the composition in all growth shows a woman near a boiling pot of potion. The picture is permeated with Oriental motifs is one of the earliest Hobbies Waterhouse. And this is another feature of the painting is not a literary character and not an illustration to the poem, the play or the novel. "The magic circle" envelops these two pillars, forming a collective, but the individual appearance of the sorceress. Woman and magic for him is almost identical, they both have inexplicable power, both the power to decide the fate. The theme of magic, sorcery, and the underworld is one of the dominant in painting Waterhouse along with his famous female images. It falls in the center of his career and is the concentration of all the artistic ideas of the author. "The magic circle" - work brush Waterhouse, completed in 1886.
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