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FLYING HIGH
2018
“Le Penseur”
by Émile Louis Picault (1833-1915)
“ Great minds discuss ideas,
average minds discuss events,
small minds discuss people ” .
Eleanor Roosevelt
Such pearl of wisdom, passed on to us by Eleanor
Roosevelt, contains in a nutshell Picault’s essential
theory eminently expressed in his true-to-life statue
“Le Penseur” (i.e., “The Thinker”).
This discerning artist’s accomplished touch succeeded
in rendering all of the emotional and physical effort
the thinking process generally demands.
The slight furrows on the youth’s forehead combined
with his deeply meditative facial traits impart to his
overall expression a unique and faithful representation
of what serious and in-depth reflection habitually
exacts, especially in the strenuous attempt to find a
solution to some overly intricate issue.
The fingers of the youth’s left hand are slightly
touching his forehead – again – to clearly signify
the effortful mental exertion required by any and all
earnest train of thought.
The message written on the tablet held by this young
intellectual reveals the author’s initial postulation:
“C’est sur les hauts sommets que le penseur médite”
(i.e., “The thinker meditates on the highest of
summits”).
The towering presence of an eagle perched on a rock
accentuates all the more the author’s insightful ability
to read between the lines of human existence as
surrounded by the parallel existence of other sentient
beings that populate and enrich man’s own reality: a
reality which, although being finite from a physical
perspective, contains nevertheless countless inner
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