AMOTQ: Favorite art
Lee S. Billings
stuff again. So here's the question: What is a piece of visual art
which has moved you greatly, and why did you like it so much?
My answer (one of many): A piece by Alan Clark titled "For Jilted
Love", of which I have a framed print. It shows a graveyard, with the
shade of a woman standing in front of one tombstone. Thru her body, you
can read the inscription: her name, the dates (early 1800's), and the
verse "For jilted love / her own life taken / all salvation / thus
forsaken". And if you look a little more closely... in her left hand is
the shade of a fetus.
This is one of the strongest pieces of art I've ever seen. It tells an
entire surface story visually, while at the same time providing subtext
and back-story on several different levels by implication. The artist
assumes that his intended audience will be familiar enough with history
and the societal constraints of the era to pick up the implications. I
just wish he'd provided the print in a larger size...
Who's next?
Celine
--
"Art comes from the heart, but the heart is instructed by the culture."
-- Janet Kagan, _HellSpark_
j.w.
Lee S. Billings <stard...@mindspring.com> wrote in article
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> With all the serious threads running, I think it's time for some fun
> stuff again. So here's the question: What is a piece of visual art
> which has moved you greatly, and why did you like it so much?
Donatello's statue of David. I remember first seeing it in an Art History
book in high school. We were supposed to be looking at the Michelangelo
version, but this one caught my eye. This David has the look of a
mischievous little boy, caught playing with his slingshot. Many years later
I was in Florence, and saw, as a matter of course, the more famous statue.
After gazing at it in something less than awe we went to visit the Uffizi
(sp?) Gallery. There, on the third floor, surrounded by no crowds, no
ropes, just...there, was Donatello's David. I hadn't realized it was there,
and turning a corner and coming across it was an extraordinary experience.
I know this gallery had a fire a few years later. I don't know what
happened to this statue, I hope it was safe.
j.w.
p&e
sylvia
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> With all the serious threads running, I think it's time for some fun
> stuff again. So here's the question: What is a piece of visual art
> which has moved you greatly, and why did you like it so much?
> Who's next?
Hmm. There are many pieces of art that have moved me, but the
one that immediatly came to my mind is a painting I saw on my
last visit to MOMA, entitled 'Childhood' IIRC. It was large -
about 5' by 6', and contained a multitude of images ranging from
innocent pleasures to 'monster under the bed' fears. IOW it covered
the entire range of child experience, good and bad. It left me shaken
impressed and moved. I hope someday to own a print of it, though it
won't be hung where I see it daily, but safely stored to view on demand.
Next?
--
PhoenixWench
Mike Gallagher
infodumped,
>With all the serious threads running, I think it's time for some fun
>stuff again. So here's the question: What is a piece of visual art
>which has moved you greatly, and why did you like it so much?
>
'Antigua' by (I think) Monet. It doesn't tell a story, it's basically
a landscape painting. The reason I like it is that I first saw it on a
sunny afternoon passing the window of an art print store and the
painting was brighter than its surroundings. It gives more than the
impression of the scene, it gives the warmth.
Genise Ghee
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| stuff again. So here's the question: What is a piece of visual art
| which has moved you greatly, and why did you like it so much?
I was in France a year ago, and went to the Louvre. Once inside,
I got lost, which wouldn't suprise anyone who knows me. I walked
into the Egyptian Room, and there were these life-sized statues
of just ordinary people, and they had african features! Talk about
finding your roots! It wasn't until that moment, that I understood
why some black people were upset when Elizabeth Taylor was
cast to play Cleopatra. I mean, it never occurred to me until
that moment that Egypt is on the African continent. It was
an eye-opener for me.
gog
The Trinker
Cleopatra was GREEK.
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Genise Ghee
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Man, is my face *red*! I *know* that! And yet, I must admit, that my
thought processes went just as I described them above. Oh, well.
I think I go to sleep now.
gog promises to re-acquaint herself with history and maybe some
geography, soon!
Jesse Linch
Billings) wrote:
>With all the serious threads running, I think it's time for some fun
>stuff again. So here's the question: What is a piece of visual art
>which has moved you greatly, and why did you like it so much?
Jacek Yerka painting, Ilegal Light Painting. I wish I could afford the
$800 limited print.... It captures a shift in perspectives
beautifully. On the left hand side the painting is a trail in the
wilderness and a full moon. This fades over to the right side, where
the sky blends into the wall of the inside of a medival cottage. It is
wonderfully done.
--
Jesse Linch <jli...@one.net> (despammed address)
Why am I in a handbasket, and where are you taking me?
Anne Marie Sereg
>With all the serious threads running, I think it's time for some fun
>stuff again. So here's the question: What is a piece of visual art
>which has moved you greatly, and why did you like it so much?
>
I started out working as a photo-journalist in college and then as a
tech assistant at an art school. I gave up photography for painting
(gouache on paper, acrylic on canvas) because I wanted to express
abstractions that I felt/saw internally. They just don't make cameras
for that.
So, I began painting. One of the paintings had an area that was a
quilt of eyes(no faces- just the pointed ellipses of open eyes forming
a pattern). I was very shocked when I later found the work of Alex
Grey in Sacred Mirrors(a book of his collected work).
He had used the exact same imagery (different colors) in one of his
paintings. I had never seen anyone else using the same "language".
As I looked through his book, I realized we also shared ability to
sense auric and chakra energies. His artistic vocabulary, so to speak,
is much more refined than mine; his works have a level of detail and
delicacy which mine do not begin to possess. It was a marvelous
revelation that I was not alone in my way of seeing things--quite an
inspiration.
Apart from Alex Grey, I have also been very moved by the works of Rene
Magritte, a surrealist painter, and Claude Monet, an impressionist.
But I do love art in general and am happily amazed by new (even
alive!!) artists all the time. In the Atlanta area, I particularly
have enjoyed the works of Michael Venezia (painter) and King Thackston
(painter/collagist). The Lowe gallery at Bennett Street consistently
has much better exhibits of contemporary art than the local so-called
'art' museum which generally plays it safe with dead folx's art.
(And if you're ever in Asheville,NC - check out Blue Spiral gallery)
p&e
Martin Julian DeMello
> Cleopatra was GREEK.
Macedonian, to be precise.
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> | > Lee S. Billings <stard...@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> | > | With all the serious threads running, I think it's time for some fun
> | > | stuff again. So here's the question: What is a piece of visual art
> | > | which has moved you greatly, and why did you like it so much?
> | >
> | > I was in France a year ago, and went to the Louvre. Once inside,
> | > I got lost, which wouldn't suprise anyone who knows me. I walked
> | > into the Egyptian Room, and there were these life-sized statues
> | > of just ordinary people, and they had african features! Talk about
> | > finding your roots! It wasn't until that moment, that I understood
> | > why some black people were upset when Elizabeth Taylor was
> | > cast to play Cleopatra. I mean, it never occurred to me until
> | > that moment that Egypt is on the African continent. It was
> | > an eye-opener for me.
> |
> | Cleopatra was GREEK.
>
> Man, is my face *red*! I *know* that! And yet, I must admit, that my
> thought processes went just as I described them above. Oh, well.
> I think I go to sleep now.
Genise, no reason to blush, it happens. It's also easy to just
say "Africa" and "African features", but when you look closer,
Saharan Africa and Subsaharan Africa aren't the same thing (Morocco
vs. Uganda, for example), and even in Subsaharan Africa, Ugandans
don't look like the Masai people of Kenya.
> gog promises to re-acquaint herself with history and maybe some
> geography, soon!
Let us know what you learn?
minmei
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> Lee S. Billings <stard...@mindspring.com> wrote in article
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> > With all the serious threads running, I think it's time for some fun
> > stuff again. So here's the question: What is a piece of visual art
> > which has moved you greatly, and why did you like it so much?
>
not religious but I adore that one.
I was in Metropolitan Museum of Art store at my local mall this weekend with
my 8 year old son, we were looking through the poster repro's of the
painting they have. My son pointed out all of the Matisse paintings. Last
year he has a short lesson in school on Matisse, I was amazed he still
remembered so much that he could pick them out from 40 or so other pictures.
He seems to really like Matisse.
minmei
Alan Follett
<big snip>
> Cleopatra was GREEK.
To quote from unreliable memory one of the better bits of dialogue from
the Taylor-Burton epic:
Antony: I like almost all Greek things.
Cleopatra: As an almost all Greek thing,
I thank you.
--
Alan Follett
Anne Marie Sereg
>I'm a surrealist freak, I love Dali especially his cubist Crucifixion, I'm
>not religious but I adore that one.
>
There is a fabulous Dali museum in the TampaBay area should go
travelling in that area. They have a full sampling of his work, early
to late, and a wonderful gift shop that is hard to resist.
onward...
Elaine M. Brown
I'm having Blackadder series 1 flashbacks...
"What's not Greek but sounds like Greek... That's a good one milord!"
-Elaine
--
"There is no spoon." -Matrix
sweetvenom
Why didn't the Greek want to leave Greece?
He didn't want to leave his little brother's behind.
Bob
I just want revenge. Is that so wrong?
Deety Carter
> stuff again. So here's the question: What is a piece of visual art
> which has moved you greatly, and why did you like it so much?
Hmmmm . . .pretty much anything by Escher. His pieces where all the
figures interlock are incredible - imagine being able to fill an entire
space without leaving any blanks, and making all of the complete figures
fit together. Of course, his paradoxical pieces are equally facinating;
almost every time I look at the picture of the monks on the stairs, or
the waterfall, I see something new. IOW, I just *dig* looking at his
work :) I can get lost for a time trying to figure out what it would be
like to try and reproduce the artwork in real life.
I've also got a promotional poster from the 1992 Shaw Festival in
Niagara-On-The-Lake, Ont. Canada, that always caught my eye. It a photo
of a group of well-dressed people (in Victorian- or thereabouts- era
costumes) standing on a beach (probably Port Dalhousie), ankle-deep in
the water. They are all looking off in the distance, in different
directions, as if they are listening to some kind of ubiquitous music.
Some of them are holding toy sailboats, and there are a few more in the
water around them. I've always wondered what they were waiting for, how
they had got there, and why no one was concerned that they might get wet
:)
(Sorry this is so long . . . :)
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>> stuff again. So here's the question: What is a piece of visual art
>> which has moved you greatly, and why did you like it so much?
>
Most evenings, and some mornings, I see the sunset and sunrise
displayed so marvellously across the sky that I am close to tears.
I'll consider that "God's Canvas" and choose it as my favorite work
of art. The immensity of scope and constant fluctuations and
variations are incredibly impressive. And I always see something
I hadn't noticed before! <G>
E*Borg Someday We'll All Assimilate This Way
>stuff again. So here's the question: What is a piece of visual art
>which has moved you greatly, and why did you like it so much?
Andrew Wyeth's "Christina's World." Christina is a frail woman who lives
her entire life with her brother on a small farm in Maine in the middle of
the twentieth century. She does not have the use of her legs. Wyeth
himself, lived in Greenwich Village at the height of the sixties, but
Christina and her brother's farm could have been out of the nineteenth
century. Wyeth paints them over a period of three decades.
"Christina's World" is painted on a day in which Christina has decided she
is tired of her rocking chair and wants to pick blueberries. In the
painting, she is sitting on the ground and looking off to the horizon and,
despite the fact that you're mostly looking at her back, you can just feel
the sense of contentment coming off of her.
It moved me in a way I can not describe without sounding corny.
--E*Borg
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The Trinker
E*Borg Someday We'll All Assimilate This Way wrote:
>
> stard...@mindspring.com (Lee S. Billings) wrote:
> >
> >With all the serious threads running, I think it's time for some fun
> >stuff again. So here's the question: What is a piece of visual art
> >which has moved you greatly, and why did you like it so much?
>
> Andrew Wyeth's "Christina's World." Christina is a frail woman who lives
> her entire life with her brother on a small farm in Maine in the middle of
> the twentieth century. She does not have the use of her legs. Wyeth
> himself, lived in Greenwich Village at the height of the sixties, but
> Christina and her brother's farm could have been out of the nineteenth
> century. Wyeth paints them over a period of three decades.
>
> "Christina's World" is painted on a day in which Christina has decided she
> is tired of her rocking chair and wants to pick blueberries. In the
> painting, she is sitting on the ground and looking off to the horizon and,
> despite the fact that you're mostly looking at her back, you can just feel
> the sense of contentment coming off of her.
>
> It moved me in a way I can not describe without sounding corny.
Oddly, while a print of that painting was the SO's favorite poster
when we met, that image fills me with dread. I think it's the
endless fields. (Having grown up nestled in hills, on the rim
of a valley, on a coastline, I find horizons over flat plains to
be terrifying.)
se...@nomaps.izzy.net
> With all the serious threads running, I think it's time for some fun
> stuff again. So here's the question: What is a piece of visual art
> which has moved you greatly, and why did you like it so much?
Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte". It makes
me think of Sondheim's musical "Sunday in the Park with George", which is
astonishingly beautiful.
--
Sandy se...@izzy.net
Be a trend-setter, take responsibility for the results of your actions.
I don't speak for anyone but myself, and sometimes not even that.
Chris Wesling
>
> With all the serious threads running, I think it's time for some fun
> stuff again. So here's the question: What is a piece of visual art
> which has moved you greatly, and why did you like it so much?
>
> Love", of which I have a framed print. It shows a graveyard, with the
> shade of a woman standing in front of one tombstone. Thru her body, you
> can read the inscription: her name, the dates (early 1800's), and the
> verse "For jilted love / her own life taken / all salvation / thus
> forsaken".
Am I the only one who thought "Burma Shave!" (xthread) after reading
that poem, or just the only one who dared admit it? 8-) (No dis-
respect intended to the painting; I haven't seen it, but it does
sound powerful.)
Regarding your question: Like Deety Carter, I love the works of
Escher. His art moves me not emotionally but intellectually -- I
delight in the intricacies and paradoxes he presents. I have two
framed prints [well, posters] hanging on the wall of my cube here
at work.
Chris W.
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from here." - Groucho Marx, on Chico Marx
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> Lee S. Billings <stard...@mindspring.com> wrote:
> > With all the serious threads running, I think it's time for some fun
> > stuff again. So here's the question: What is a piece of visual art
> > which has moved you greatly, and why did you like it so much?
>
> me think of Sondheim's musical "Sunday in the Park with George", which is
> astonishingly beautiful.
"Mmmm, nice choice, Sandy -- and a good association, too," says Jezebel.
"My own favorite piece is a small black-and-white etching -- an original
print -- of an aging woman's face. I was drawn to it more than 30 years
ago during a college art auction fund-raiser, because the face seemed
somehow filled with pain and beauty and hope and despair, all at the
same time. I wound up bidding and buying the print for only $40 -- the
first real piece of art I'd ever bought. It wasn't until later that I
learned about the artist, Kathe Kollwitz, a remarkable woman who devoted
her life's work to compassionate, haunting, completely unsentimental
images of the working poor, especially women and children.
"I still treasure her little self-portrait, and visitors often remark on
how striking it is.
"You can read a little about Kollwitz' life at:
http://www.webgalleries.com/pm/colors/kollwitz.html
"Some of her images can be seen at:
http://piranesi.anu.edu.au/midjpg/prints.midjpg/byartist/display00130.html
(the etching on the upper right is the one I own).
--Jezebel
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se...@nomaps.izzy.net
> se...@nomaps.izzy.net wrote:
>> Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte". It makes
>> me think of Sondheim's musical "Sunday in the Park with George", which is
>> astonishingly beautiful.
> "Mmmm, nice choice, Sandy -- and a good association, too," says Jezebel.
"Light. Balance. Harmony."
I may have the order wrong, but it still sends chills down my spine. It also
makes me think of the times I thought I needed to "finish the hat", something
to which I fall prey far too often.
It doesn't hurt any that I went to the Chicago Museum of Art while it was
hanging there (I don't know if it still is) well before I heard the musical.
The order of the painting, the making visible images from tiny bits of almost
nothing, that really appeals to me.
(Huh, I just spent 15 minutes searching for lyrics on the web. Couldn't
find any. Weird.)
Freyja
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> Lee S. Billings <stard...@mindspring.com> wrote:
> > With all the serious threads running, I think it's time for some fun
> > stuff again. So here's the question: What is a piece of visual art
> > which has moved you greatly, and why did you like it so much?
>
I'm not the only one, then! <G>
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se...@nomaps.izzy.net
> Pat Kight <kig...@ucs.orst.edu> wrote:
>> "Mmmm, nice choice, Sandy -- and a good association, too," says Jezebel.
> "Light. Balance. Harmony."
> I may have the order wrong, but it still sends chills down my spine. It also
> makes me think of the times I thought I needed to "finish the hat", something
> to which I fall prey far too often.
Called Donda, had her check the lyrics for me. "Balance, Light, Harmony".
Still, I was close.
Beth Jackson
bronchitis, overhears...]
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Celine:
>>With all the serious threads running,
>>I think it's time for some fun stuff again.
>>
>>So here's the question:
>>What is a piece of visual art
>>which has moved you greatly,
>>and why did you like it so much?
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[...and just has to respond, at least a little:
(gotta go back to work 8 a.m.,
Tues., Aug. 10 -- yuck }:-P)]
Hmmm... favorite art, eh?
(I do call myself "the *Canvas* Canary", y'know:)
While I'm not totally sure of any one piece of artwork which I'd call my
favorite, there are several artists whose work I most admire:
Jan Vermeer
(a Dutch-Renaissance painter)
(most of his work which I've seen, seems to have a fairly pleasant,
calming effect on me)
Bernini
(a sculptor in the Italian Renaissance)
(I like his work better than Michelangelo Buonarotti's; it seems to have
more joie d'vivre(sp?) in it...not to mention that the
gender-differences are more apparent in his work: Apollo and Daphne, or
Hades and Persephone, for instance)
Leonardo da Vinci
(a "multi-artist" <g> in the Italian Renaissance)
(especially I like his drawings and sketches)
Salvador Dali
(the sheer technical beauty of his detail-work *astounds* and delights
me)
Escher
(same reasons for liking Dali <g> besides the fact that, for my <g>
rather "vanilla-trained" tastes, most of his -- er -- subject-matter is
rather less unsettling:)
<suddenly looking at clock>
<slight dismay>
Ohh, gosh!
-- I guess I'd better call it a night,
and go off to bed.
(I'm still "a little weak on my pins", as Mark Twain had Huckleberry
Finn once put it:)
G'night, all;
wish me luck!
{:-\
[...and the Canary gets up from her chair, and goes back out thru the
Front Door, toward her North Carolina apartment.]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
the Canvas Canary
(Visit my new website:)
http://www.angelfire.com/nc/canvascanary/
Leonard Erickson
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> | Genise Ghee wrote:
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> | > Lee S. Billings <stard...@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> | > | With all the serious threads running, I think it's time for some fun
> | > | stuff again. So here's the question: What is a piece of visual art
> | > | which has moved you greatly, and why did you like it so much?
> | >
> | > I was in France a year ago, and went to the Louvre. Once inside,
> | > I got lost, which wouldn't suprise anyone who knows me. I walked
> | > into the Egyptian Room, and there were these life-sized statues
> | > of just ordinary people, and they had african features! Talk about
> | > finding your roots! It wasn't until that moment, that I understood
> | > why some black people were upset when Elizabeth Taylor was
> | > cast to play Cleopatra. I mean, it never occurred to me until
> | > that moment that Egypt is on the African continent. It was
> | > an eye-opener for me.
> |
> | Cleopatra was GREEK.
>
> Man, is my face *red*! I *know* that! And yet, I must admit, that my
> thought processes went just as I described them above. Oh, well.
> I think I go to sleep now.
>
> gog promises to re-acquaint herself with history and maybe some
> geography, soon!
Don't feel bad. I still realize the moment of *shock* I felt when one
day I realized that Sir Isaac Newton and the Puritans were
*contemporaries*!
I blame this mostly on the way US history is taught as if it was
*completely* independent of world history, and the way history of
science and engineering isn't covered at *all*.
--
Leonard Erickson (aka Nemo) kal...@krypton.rain.com
"I would not take a bet against the existence of time machines.
My opponent might have seen the future and know the answer."
-- Stephen Hawking
Rick Davis
>"Genise Ghee" <pha...@email.msn.com> writes:
>
>> gog promises to re-acquaint herself with history and maybe some
>> geography, soon!
>
>Don't feel bad. I still realize the moment of *shock* I felt when one
>day I realized that Sir Isaac Newton and the Puritans were
>*contemporaries*!
>
>I blame this mostly on the way US history is taught as if it was
>*completely* independent of world history, and the way history of
>science and engineering isn't covered at *all*.
This is why I really liked the James Burke series (_The Day the Universe
Changed_ and _Connections_) and Burkowski's(?) _The Assent of Man_ (my
loaned-out copy of the book disappeared :-( ).
--
Rick Davis rdd...@rica.net
"You've got to find what you like and let it kill you."
Liana Olear
: Lee S. Billings <stard...@mindspring.com> wrote in article
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: > With all the serious threads running, I think it's time for some fun
: > stuff again. So here's the question: What is a piece of visual art
: > which has moved you greatly, and why did you like it so much?
There have been a few pieces. An El Greco painting of Virgin Mary I found
in a small museum in Toledo where he once lived. The painting was
a fairly small portrait of a teenage girl who was simply radiating
innocence - with the tiniest glint of mischief as a reminder that she
is a person, not an icon. I love El Greco - the colors, and especially the
light that shines out of his art. In a giant room full of his paintings,
this small portrait in the corner just drew me to it and made me stop and
look.
The Repentant Magdalene by Georges de La Tour. Or rather, four of them
(of the 5 or 6 total that he's painted), each slightly different. They
were a special exhibit at the National Art Gallery first time I visited
DC. I remember turning a corner and walking into a small room, dark -
lit very subtly, so that the painting is seen clearly, but most of the
light seems to come from the candles within the dark paintings,
illuminating figures of a woman, deep in thought...
A painting I've just recently spotted walking through the National Art
Gallery. I am rather ashamed to say that I don't remember the artist, the
name, or for that matter the exact subject - it was either the Assumption
of Mary or the Ascension. A traditional early Renaissance painting,
rather small, the top of it dominated by the figure in the clouds,
surrounded by the usual angels and light. Far below, beneath the figure's
feet, there was a landscape - a small town and a forest. The entire
painting couldn't have been bigger than a standard sheet of printer paper
- the landscape was very small. Yet, you could see every branch of a
tree in the forest, if not every leaf... The detail of the painting
stunned me.
Liana
Lee S. Billings
kal...@krypton.rain.com says...
>I blame this mostly on the way US history is taught as if it was
>*completely* independent of world history, and the way history of
>science and engineering isn't covered at *all*.
I've picked up a lot of science and engineering history by reading
Isaac Asimov's collected essays from F&SF. He was always careful to
place things within their historical background. I intend to see that
Blair reads these books too in a few years -- right now I think they
might be heavy going for her.
Celine
--
"Art comes from the heart, but the heart is instructed by the culture."
-- Janet Kagan, _HellSpark_
Victoria
>
>
> Regarding your question: Like Deety Carter, I love the works of
> Escher. His art moves me not emotionally but intellectually -- I
> delight in the intricacies and paradoxes he presents. I have two
> framed prints [well, posters] hanging on the wall of my cube here
> at work.
>
> Chris W.
> --
> (Email munged; spell my name as Christopher to email me.)
>
>
My co-santera and friend Arlene Cisneros Sena's latest "La Sagrada Familia"
....she captured the essence of purity and beauty beyond belief.
Victoria
"a woman's heart is an ocean of secrets"
Martin Julian DeMello
> This is why I really liked the James Burke series (_The Day the Universe
> Changed_ and _Connections_) and Burkowski's(?) _The Assent of Man_ (my
> loaned-out copy of the book disappeared :-( ).
Bronowski. Absolutely wonderful book.
--
Martin DeMello/zem
Chris Wesling
>
> My co-santera and friend Arlene Cisneros Sena's latest "La Sagrada Familia"
> ....she captured the essence of purity and beauty beyond belief.
Pardon my ignorance, but what is a "co-santera"?
Oh, and welcome to the Place, Victoria!
Chris W.
--
(Email munged; spell my name as Christopher to email me.)
"My attempts to eliminate some of my bad habits are meeting with
fanatical resistance." - Ashleigh Brilliant
Rick Davis
Yes! Thanks! First time I read it was in 1975 while watching the PBS
companion series for a history of science class. I reread it a couple
times after that, but loaned it to a "friend" sometime in the '80s who
moved away without giving it back. Someday I've got to get another
copy.
Myschyf
>
> With all the serious threads running, I think it's time for some fun
> stuff again. So here's the question: What is a piece of visual art
> which has moved you greatly, and why did you like it so much?
"There are a lot of them...but one of my favorites was one I came upon
in the San Diego Museum of Art. I turned a corner and there was
this...fairly large...painting of a city street...the scene was drenched
in night, most of the colors were muted, except the light from windows
which burned golden...it was raining. In the lower right corner is a
car...looks to be from the thirties...and a man is helping a woman step
up into the back seat."
"I don't know why it made me catch my breath or why I stood, taking it
in, for at least ten minutes the first time I encountered it. But I
don't have to know why...it makes me happy. That's enough."
"The Artist is Charles Burchfield and the painting is called Rainy
Night. I know this 'cause I bought a small print of it that day."*smile*
Gesi
--
"My darling girl, when are you going to understand that 'normal' is not
necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage."
- Aunt Frances, Practical Magic
bet...@earthlink.net
stard...@mindspring.com (Lee S. Billings) wrote:
> With all the serious threads running, I think it's time for some fun
> stuff again. So here's the question: What is a piece of visual art
> which has moved you greatly, and why did you like it so much?
Michaelangelo's 'La Pieta.'
The detail and expressions just say so much so powerfully.
Picasso's 'Guernica.' There is a story that a Nazi officer came to
visit Picasso's studio and saw a print of that piece on the wall.
Pointing to it, the officer asked Picasso 'You did that, didn't you?'
To which Picasso replied, 'No, you did.'
--
BetN -- NEVER parry with your head
sylvia
me to www.bev-doolittle.com which gives a miniscule taste of what
you described - thank you! As it happens I was familiar with one of
her works - Sacred Circle - without knowing who to thank. BOYC?
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Q'vaD <qv...@cdcbetleH.net> wrote in message
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> On 6 Aug 1999 20:56:10 GMT, stard...@mindspring.com (Lee S.
> Billings) wrote:
>
> >With all the serious threads running, I think it's time for some fun
> >stuff again. So here's the question: What is a piece of visual art
> >which has moved you greatly, and why did you like it so much?
>
> About all that comes to mind is an artist, not a particular work --
> and that's Bev Doolittle.
>
> I couldn't tell you specifically *which* one, but my sister had a
> coffee-table book of her work, and I remember flipping through it and
> going "OK, another bunch of Southwestern landsca -- heeeyyyyy, that's
> *cool*!"
>
> (For those of you not familiar with Bev, she does "camoflauge art" --
> you think you're looking at -- for instance -- a couple of mountain
> men standing in a grove of snow-covered birch trees...and then your
> eyes shift focus, and you notice that in amongst the trees are a row
> of Appaloosa horses blending in (nearly) perfectly with the
> background...and *then* -- way over on the right side of the painting
> -- you notice two even-more-perfectly-disguised-but-not-quite Native
> American warriors (don't recall the tribe) stealthily undoing the
> leads to the horse at the end....)
> ----
> qv...@cdcbetleH.net
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Anne Marie Sereg
(snip)
> But I don't have to know why...it makes me happy. That's enough."
>
>
>"The Artist is Charles Burchfield and the painting is called Rainy
>Night. I know this 'cause I bought a small print of it that day."*smile*
>
>Gesi
a song about Burchfield. Made me curious, so I found the reference.
Very beautiful work.
I still like both of 'em a lot.
Myschyf
>
> Myschyf <mys...@99main.com> wrote:
> (snip)
> > But I don't have to know why...it makes me happy. That's enough."
> >
> >
> >"The Artist is Charles Burchfield and the painting is called Rainy
> >Night. I know this 'cause I bought a small print of it that day."*smile*
> >
>
> a song about Burchfield. Made me curious, so I found the reference.
> Very beautiful work.
> I still like both of 'em a lot.
"That's so cool. What's the song title, please?":)
Anne Marie Sereg
>"That's so cool. What's the song title, please?":)
>
It's called Burchfield Nines on the Burchfield Nines CD(warner 1978).
The cover has a Burchfield on it next to the artist.
As I listened to a clip on a music site, I realized it was much slower
than I remembered it. That album/CD also has my favorites: 'wrestle a
live nude girl' and 'meet me in the deerpark'.
sylvia
on the web, I'd like to share this site
http://artcyclopedia.com/artists/burchfield_charles.html
Besides links to some really nice samples of Burchfield's
work, go to the home site to hunt down other artisis as well ;-)
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Anne Marie Sereg <ann...@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> Myschyf <mys...@99main.com> wrote:
> (snip)
> > But I don't have to know why...it makes me happy. That's enough."
> >
> >
> >"The Artist is Charles Burchfield and the painting is called Rainy
> >Night. I know this 'cause I bought a small print of it that day."*smile*
> >
> >Gesi
Myschyf
"Thank you much.":)
Myschyf
>
> Now that I'm getting the hang of tracking down art and artists
> on the web, I'd like to share this site
> http://artcyclopedia.com/artists/burchfield_charles.html
>
> Besides links to some really nice samples of Burchfield's
> work, go to the home site to hunt down other artisis as well ;-)
>
"Thank you so much. Its been bookmarked for perusal at a later date.":)
Sneaky Furfoot
>which has moved you greatly, and why did you like it so much?
>
Vermeer's "The Geographer".
My mother had a fine print of it when I was small, and I was fascinated by it.
The incredible detail, the look of intent concentration and joy on his face,
the sheer energy in his stance, and the paradoxical feeling of peace and joy.
He was doing exactly what he wanted with his life, and loved it. I wanted to
be like that when I grew up.
I finally saw the real thing, when the National Gallery hosted the Vermeer
exhibition a few years ago. Stared at it for over an hour before Andy dragged
me away to see the rest of the pictures. Can't find a decent print of it
anywhere, now.
/K@