Editing Atlantis (section)

==Artistic representations==
{{See also|Atlantis in popular culture}}

===Music===
The Spanish composer [[Manuel de Falla]] worked on a dramatic [[cantata]] based on Verdaguer's ''L'Atlántida'', during the last 20 years of his life.<ref> Garcia, Carlos. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140408124219/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbO0U3BMEfo ''MANUEL DE FALLA.- ATLÁNTIDA'']. 16 September 2013. Via YouTube.]</ref> The name has been affixed to symphonies by [[Jānis Ivanovs]] (Symphony 4, 1941),<ref>collectionCB2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZN83Q11GZg ''Janis Ivanovs (1906-1983) : Symphony No. 4 « Atlantida » (1941) 1/2 **MUST HEAR**'']. 17 May 2012. Via YouTube.</ref> [[Richard Nanes]],<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160306175412/http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=1538965 ''Sym No.1 'Atlantis-The Sunken City': I. Andante/II. Scherzando'']. Recorded by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, 1990s. Via cduniverse.com.</ref> and Vaclav Buzek (2009).<ref>COMPONIST56. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvUUfewPZa8 ''Symphony Atlantis 1st mvt part 1 "The Last Day" / Vaclav Buzek'']. 10 March 2009. Via YouTube.</ref> There was also the symphonic celebration of [[Alan Hovhaness]]: "Fanfare for the New Atlantis" (Op. 281, 1975).<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/w/122552| title =Hovhaness - Concerto No. 2 for Guitar and Strings, Op. 394|publisher= Presto Classical}}</ref>

The Bohemian-American composer and arranger [[Vincent Frank Safranek]] wrote ''Atlantis (The Lost Continent) Suite in Four Parts''; I. Nocturne and Morning Hymn of Praise, II. A Court Function, III. "I Love Thee" (The Prince and Aana), IV. The Destruction of Atlantis, for military (concert) band in 1913.<ref>''The Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music'' by William H. Rehrig, ed. by Paul Bierley. Westerville OH: Integrity Press, 1991. vol. 2, pp. 655–656</ref>

The [[opera]] ''[[Der Kaiser von Atlantis]]'' (''The Emperor of Atlantis'') was written in 1943 by [[Viktor Ullmann]] with a [[libretto]] by [[Petr Kien]], while they were both inmates at the [[Nazi]] concentration camp of [[Theresienstadt Ghetto|Theresienstadt]]. The Nazis did not allow it to be performed, assuming the opera's reference to an Emperor of Atlantis to be a satire on [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]]. Though Ullmann and Kiel were murdered in [[Auschwitz]], the manuscript survived and was performed for the first time in 1975 in Amsterdam.<ref>Beaumont, Antony (2001), in [[Amanda Holden (writer)|Holden, Amanda]] (Ed.), ''The New Penguin Opera Guide'', New York: Penguin Putnam. {{ISBN|0-140-29312-4}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Karas|first=Joža|author-link=Joža Karas|year=1990|title=Music in Terezín, 1941–1945|location=Hillsdale, New York|publisher=Pendragon Press}}</ref><ref>Unknown author (26 April 1977), [https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2014/apr/26/archive-1977-death-takes-holiday "From the archive: Death takes a holiday"], ''The Guardian'' (London), 26 April 1977; reprinted on 26 April 2014</ref>

[[File:Atlantis_Monsu_Desiderio.jpg|thumb|right|[[François de Nomé]]'s ''The Fall of Atlantis'']]
[[File:N.Roerich_"Gibel Atlantidy".jpg|thumb|right|upright=1|Nicholas Roerich's ''The Last of Atlantis'']]
[[File:Terror Antiquus by L.Bakst (1908).jpg|thumb|right|upright=1|[[Léon Bakst]]'s vision of cosmic catastrophe]]

===Painting and sculpture===

Paintings of the submersion of Atlantis are comparatively rare. In the seventeenth century there was [[François de Nomé]]'s ''The Fall of Atlantis'', which shows a tidal wave surging toward a Baroque city frontage. The style of architecture apart, it is not very different from [[Nicholas Roerich]]'s ''The Last of Atlantis'' of 1928.

The most dramatic depiction of the catastrophe was [[Léon Bakst]]'s ''Ancient Terror'' (''Terror Antiquus'', 1908), although it does not name Atlantis directly. It is a mountain-top view of a rocky bay breached by the sea, which is washing inland about the tall structures of an ancient city. A streak of lightning crosses the upper half of the painting, while below it rises the impassive figure of an enigmatic goddess who holds a blue dove between her breasts. [[Vyacheslav Ivanov (poet)|Vyacheslav Ivanov]] identified the subject as Atlantis in a public lecture on the painting given in 1909, the year it was first exhibited, and he has been followed by other commentators in the years since.<ref>{{cite book |first=Pamela |last=Davidson |title=Cultural Memory and Survival: The Russian Renaissance of Classical Antiquity in the Twentieth Century |series=Studies in Russia and Eastern Europe |volume=6 |publisher=School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL |location=London, UK |year=2009 |url=http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/69111 |pages=5–15 }}</ref>

Sculptures referencing Atlantis have often been stylized single figures. One of the earliest was [[Einar Jónsson]]'s ''The King of Atlantis'' (1919–1922), now in the garden of his museum in [[Reykjavík]]. It represents a single figure, clad in a belted skirt and wearing a large triangular helmet, who sits on an ornate throne supported between two young bulls.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2452/3695419751_47fc7eecd1_b.jpg| title = 3695419751_47fc7eecd1_b.jpg |website=Flicker}}</ref> The walking female entitled ''Atlantis'' (1946) by [[Ivan Meštrović]]<ref>{{cite web| url = http://previews.123rf.com/images/shufu/shufu1212/shufu121200021/17025830-Atlantis-Ivan-Mestrovic-bronze-sculpture-1946-Stock-Photo.jpg| title = Atlantis: Ivan Mestrovic bronze sculpture 1946 Stock Photo.jpg|website=123rf.com}}</ref> was from a series inspired by ancient Greek figures<ref>Meštrović, Matthew, "Meštrović's American Experience", [http://www.studiacroatica.org/jcs/24/2411.htm ''Journal of Croatian Studies'', XXIV, 1983]</ref> with the symbolical meaning of unjustified suffering.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.weatherforecast.co.uk/europe/croatia/the-metrovi-gallery-17403.html| title = The Meštrović Gallery 7 Day Weather Forecast|website=weatherforecast.co.uk}}</ref>

In the case of the [[Brussels]] fountain feature known as ''The Man of Atlantis'' (2003) by the Belgian sculptor {{Interlanguage link|Luk van Soom|nl|3=Luk van Soom}}, the 4-metre tall figure wearing a diving suit steps from a plinth into the spray.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.brusselspictures.com/wp-content/photos/statues/de-man-van-atlantis.JPG| title = De man van Atlantis |publisher=Brussels Pictures}}</ref> It looks light-hearted but the artist's comment on it makes a serious point: "Because habitable land will be scarce, it is no longer improbable that we will return to the water in the long term. As a result, a portion of the population will mutate into fish-like creatures. Global warming and rising water levels are practical problems for the world in general and here in the Netherlands in particular".<ref>Kunstbus article quoting [http://www.kunstbus.nl/kunst/luk+van+soom.html "Luk van Soom"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216221819/http://www.kunstbus.nl/kunst/luk+van+soom.html |date=16 February 2016 }}</ref>
 
[[Robert Smithson]]'s ''Hypothetical Continent – Map of Broken Clear Glass: Atlantis'' was first created as a photographical project in [[Loveladies, New Jersey]], in 1969,<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.robertsmithson.com/photoworks/hc_atlantis_300.htm| title = Hypothetical Continent – Map of Broken Clear Glass: Atlantis|website=Robert Smithson|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120107223810/http://www.robertsmithson.com/photoworks/hc_atlantis_300.htm|archive-date=7 January 2012}}</ref> and then recreated as a gallery installation of broken glass.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://worleygig.com/2015/07/27/modern-art-monday-presents-robert-smithson-map-of-broken-glass-atlantis| title = Modern Art Monday Presents: Robert Smithson, Map of Broken Glass (Atlantis)|publisher=Dia Beacon Gallery| date = 27 July 2015 }}</ref> On this he commented that he liked "landscapes that suggest prehistory", and this is borne out by the original conceptual drawing of the work that includes an inset map of the continent sited off the coast of Africa and at the straits into the Mediterranean.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.robertsmithson.com/drawings/map_of_broken_glass_374.htm| title = MAP OF BROKEN CLEAR GLASS (ATLANTIS)|publisher=Robert Smithson| access-date = 11 February 2016| archive-date = 21 March 2016| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160321063927/http://robertsmithson.com/drawings/map_of_broken_glass_374.htm| url-status = dead}}</ref>