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| Posted on January 2, 2011 at 9:44 AM |
If money were no object, which original work of art would you most want to own and why?
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Reply Sue Ann Simar
01:01 AM on March 07, 2011?
I've never seen an Agnes Martin and would like to experience one "in person."
I'd like to own one of the Frank O'Hara/Larry Rivers collaborations.
Also, a Kenneth Patchen original.
These aren't the world's greatest artworks, but I would really enjoy them and find them inspiring.
I'd like to own one of the Frank O'Hara/Larry Rivers collaborations.
Also, a Kenneth Patchen original.
These aren't the world's greatest artworks, but I would really enjoy them and find them inspiring.
Hi Robert:
You've inspired me to look up the Biblical story. Also, until you pointed it out, I thought the women were looking across a river at Jacob and the angel (God). I wonder who they wanted to win? God or Jacob!
It's interesting how Scripture inspired Gauguin and art gives rise to new questions and ideas.
Christina
You've inspired me to look up the Biblical story. Also, until you pointed it out, I thought the women were looking across a river at Jacob and the angel (God). I wonder who they wanted to win? God or Jacob!
It's interesting how Scripture inspired Gauguin and art gives rise to new questions and ideas.
Christina
Here's a link to Gauguin's _The Vision after the Sermon_: http://www.paul-gauguin.net/The-Vision-After-The-Sermon-Aka-Jacob
-Wrestling-The-Ange-large.html
Christina, I've always been fascinated with that story from Genesis, and I think initially I was mainly struck by Gauguin's re-placement of it in such a distinctive new context -- with all those Breton women looking on. Since first encountering it, I've come to be taken with all sorts of elements: the distorted perspective, the composition (the way, for instance, Gauguin uses a spatial element--the tree--to divide the modern observers from the ancient strugglers), the way the title establishes a narrative frame for the painting (what would we have made of it without that title?), and the fact that it's a work of visual art that takes seeing as its subject (we're invited to observe a group of observers).
-Wrestling-The-Ange-large.html
Christina, I've always been fascinated with that story from Genesis, and I think initially I was mainly struck by Gauguin's re-placement of it in such a distinctive new context -- with all those Breton women looking on. Since first encountering it, I've come to be taken with all sorts of elements: the distorted perspective, the composition (the way, for instance, Gauguin uses a spatial element--the tree--to divide the modern observers from the ancient strugglers), the way the title establishes a narrative frame for the painting (what would we have made of it without that title?), and the fact that it's a work of visual art that takes seeing as its subject (we're invited to observe a group of observers).
I can't help but wonder what inspired you, Robert, about Gauguin's painting?
When I was a girl in London, I used to go to the National Gallery in London, and remember seeing these amazing religious paintings (no idea who/what), and feeling something touch a deep inexplicable place in my heart. I used to stare up at these massive canvases and wonder what in the world they meant. But I knew they meant something.
Jacob wrestling an angel--now that's interesting imagery which seems to apply to life--we are always wrestling with demons, but here is a struggle with an angel...hmmm what angels are we struggling with? What won't we admit into our lives, even though holy, I wonder?
When I was a girl in London, I used to go to the National Gallery in London, and remember seeing these amazing religious paintings (no idea who/what), and feeling something touch a deep inexplicable place in my heart. I used to stare up at these massive canvases and wonder what in the world they meant. But I knew they meant something.
Jacob wrestling an angel--now that's interesting imagery which seems to apply to life--we are always wrestling with demons, but here is a struggle with an angel...hmmm what angels are we struggling with? What won't we admit into our lives, even though holy, I wonder?
Robert,
I haven't heard of that one before, and it made me hunt for the painting and reseach the story. Fascinating.
If anyone wants to post a link to their chosen work of art, feel free!
I haven't heard of that one before, and it made me hunt for the painting and reseach the story. Fascinating.
If anyone wants to post a link to their chosen work of art, feel free!
I've never wanted to own a famous work of art; it's something I never even thought about 'til you asked. But I'll say Gauguin's _The Vision after the Sermon_, which I've liked since discovering it in a college art history class, and _especially_ since the joy of finding myself standing in front of it at the National Gallery in Edinburgh.
Picasso's "At Rest." She's beautiful just being herself.
Reply Eddy
10:09 AM on January 04, 2011?
I just can't choose between Breughel's "Hunters in the Snow" and Botticelli's Venus. The snow scene is so beautiful and bleak and makes the life seem so dear and the depiction of the birth of Venus is to me just the epitome of romantic beauty in the (yes, really narrow) western European fairy tale sense. So--somebody's going to have to buy me two paintings.
I have a tiny (3 inch) replica of the ballerina. When you win the lottery, Carter, I'd love to see the real thing in your livingroom!
Reply Carter Seaton
08:58 AM on January 03, 2011?
I'd buy Degas ballerina sculpture. Each time I go to Washington I visit it again. I love the pose, the face, and the use of added materials to the bronze. Wish I could have studied with him.
As you can tell by the photo that I posted that I'm drawn to the work of Andrew Wyeth, but there's one painting by Gari Melchers that I love called Mother and Child of a steely-eyed woman holding her baby: http://www.umw.edu/gari_melchers/melchers/how_to_identify_a_melch
ers.php. I have a print of it but would love to own the original that resides at the Art Institute of Chicago.
ers.php. I have a print of it but would love to own the original that resides at the Art Institute of Chicago.
I want to steal seabrooke's comment word for word, but since I can't . . . any painting by Marnelle North (www.marnellenorth.com) or Wolf Kahn. There is so much energy and passion pulsing beneath the surface in their work, even the quiet moments . . . especially the quiet moments.
I love late 19th c painting. It's hard to pick the painting I would most like to own but I'd have to choose Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh because it shows not only the physical but the metaphysical, what is there for the imagination to see if we only have eyes to look. This is as important for writers as it is for painters, maybe more important for writers because painters can paint only what's there but writers have to tell what's been there before & will come after & what possibilities exist in the human heart.
Reply lexcade
04:24 PM on January 02, 2011?
Discobolus. it's just beautiful. perfect. poetry. or any of the Rookwood Pottery collection at the Cincinnati Museum of art. i love pottery, and those are stunning.
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