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Post by holajonathan on Dec 29, 2021 12:48:03 GMT -5
Beautiful cabs and I love the red theme going through that batch! I have to agree with the others that the red lightning is a stand out! Thanks, Brian. I didn't notice the red "theme" until you mentioned it. One of the reasons I enjoy posting photos of my cabs is that others notice things that I didn't, even though I have spent a long time looking at the cabs by the time they get posted here. Now that I look at all four of them with the idea of there being a red theme, I notice that the Ohio flint cab has a unique color palette. The pastel colors stand in sharp contrast to the bold colors in the Mexican agates and jaspers. Thanks for helping guide my eyes in a new way.  |
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Post by Brian on Dec 29, 2021 15:07:13 GMT -5
Beautiful cabs and I love the red theme going through that batch! I have to agree with the others that the red lightning is a stand out! Thanks, Brian. I didn't notice the red "theme" until you mentioned it. One of the reasons I enjoy posting photos of my cabs is that others notice things that I didn't, even though I have spent a long time looking at the cabs by the time they get posted here. Now that I look at all four of them with the idea of there being a red theme, I notice that the Ohio flint cab has a unique color palette. The pastel colors stand in sharp contrast to the bold colors in the Mexican agates and jaspers. Thanks for helping guide my eyes in a new way. We have one of the world’s coolest museums that few have ever heard of right here in Philly called the Barnes Foundation. It is full of world-class art from many of the great artists from Impressionism and newer. The man who collected it wanted people to view the art in a different way and wanted his collection to educate people. To do that he arranged the pieces in a very peculiar way. He would hang seemingly random everyday objects near a groups of paintings or a mixture of sculpture and paintings or a group of paintings from various artists or time periods and try to challenge the viewer to make connections between the pieces. Some may be connected by color, some by a unique style of brushstroke, or some by similar shapes or curves. The whole point was to break up the traditional way of viewing a piece of art on its own and making you think how it may be connected or inspired by other art or objects. It’s a truly fascinating museum and unfortunately was mired in controversy. He had a very specific set of instructions for the art in his will and just about every demand he made was ultimately broken. When it comes to hundreds of millions (the linked article actually says that it is a $25 billion collection!) in art, a lot of people were willing to look the other way. There is a great documentary about the collection and the drama surrounding it called The Art of the Steal. m.imdb.com/title/tt1326733/ |
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Post by holajonathan on Dec 29, 2021 19:01:30 GMT -5
Brian This is interesting. I will see if I have access to that documentary. I have paid some attention to how the presentation of art affects its impact on the viewer. Two of my most favorite art museums are sort of the opposite extreme: large collections by a single artist. I am referring to the Botero Museum (Fernando Botero) in Bogota, Colombia, and the La Capilla del Hombre (The Chapel of Man), by Oswaldo Guayasamín, in Quito, Ecuador. Here are a few photos of the Guayasamin museum in Quito -- which is where my wife is from:    Guayasamin built the museum during his life (alongside his home) and actually painted some of the very large paintings right inside the museum, so they never had to be moved. The paintings in the second photo are HUGE, perhaps 20-30 feet wide. This will give you an idea of scale:  Guayasamin designed the building and its layout. He decided which works of art to include in the museum, and where to locate / juxtapose them in the physical space. The end result is quite impactful. The entire building in the work of art, with no emphasis on the individual paintings. In some rooms the walls are painted, and in others, the ceiling or floor. I do not recall there being any posted named of the works or narrative description of the artist or the art. (We did have an amazing guide, which is often the best way to experience a museum for the first time.) By the way -- Guayasamin did paint things other than tortured looking faces -- even if there are no shortage of those, as you can see. Guayasamin was clearly influenced heavily by Picasso, but it would be a mistake to say he "copied" Picasso. He clearly added his own touch to genre, while doing a lot of creative experimentation. I like this painting, which is a stylized "copy" of a famous European painting:  He then made a stylized copy of his own stylized copy:  Although I don't have a photo, he later stripped it down even more to a black and white drawing of mostly just forms, using only charcoal sticks. Like many modern artists, he appeared to have been exploring how much of the aesthetic value of the art could be stripped away without losing the emotion value or message. To me, that is modern art at its best. (I don't understand most modern art.) I'll stop rambling on about art, but you started it. 
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Post by rockjunquie on Dec 30, 2021 15:12:51 GMT -5
I keep coming back to look at this
It's such a nice cab. I love they way you framed it with a triangle inside the triangle. Top notch!
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Post by Brian on Dec 30, 2021 21:43:24 GMT -5
holajonathan, the Guayasamin sounds amazing. Seeing the art in a setting exactly as the artist envisioned it would be incredible. Especially for those pieces that he painted on site. I can certainly see the Picasso influence, but that picture has much more feeling in it that is often not seen in a Picasso. I would love seeing those large-scale paintings in person. I find it easy to lose myself in those. Particularly if they are in the proper setting so that you can appreciate it from near and far. I saw an exhibit of Matisse's cut-outs and found them so much more interesting in person than I ever had in pictures.
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Post by holajonathan on Dec 31, 2021 0:35:16 GMT -5
holajonathan , the Guayasamin sounds amazing. Seeing the art in a setting exactly as the artist envisioned it would be incredible. Especially for those pieces that he painted on site. I can certainly see the Picasso influence, but that picture has much more feeling in it that is often not seen in a Picasso. I would love seeing those large-scale paintings in person. I find it easy to lose myself in those. Particularly if they are in the proper setting so that you can appreciate it from near and far. I saw an exhibit of Matisse's cut-outs and found them so much more interesting in person than I ever had in pictures. It is an incredible museum. If you're ever in the neighborhood of Quito, Ecuador... The story of the museum is even more dramatic than I described. Guayasamin started (his own) museum late in life, and painted some of the enormous on-site works with failing health, or one might say, in anticipation of death. So if he had something left to say to the world, one can assume those works contain the message. His art is very much political. He was an ardent leftist, admirer of Fidel Castro, etc... Most of his works are about Latin Americans, particularly indigenous people, suffering, dying, being tortured, protesting, and so on. I can't say I share his political views, but they were certainly not uncommon ideas among the Latin American intellectual and artistic community in the 60s and 70s. Regardless, I am able to put politics aside and appreciate the art. More photos here if you care to take a gander: www.wikiart.org/en/oswaldo-guayasamin/all-works#!#filterName:all-paintings-chronologically,resultType:masonry |
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