Builders of the Cathedral
With the exception of the figure in Meteor, touching his lip as if in a speechless rapture, Bílek accompanied each of the images displayed here with a statement that the figure might have said. The figure is thus depicted as a hieroglyphic symbol with a specific meaning and the body as a lexicon. Through an interplay of gestures, movements and facial expressions, each figure utters words, sometimes of the most intimate nature. The upward gaze, for example, symbolises the relationship between the human and the transcendental. Just as the body in Březina's poem asks about the soul’s adventures in the air, so does Bílek’s figures address God, who is usually made manifest by rays or a flood of light.
| Subject: | Others |
| Author: | Březina, Otokar |
| Title: | Builders of the Cathedral |
| Date: | 1899 |
| Publisher: | Moderní revue 1899 |
| Origin: | library of Petr Holman |
| Licence: | Free license |
