The Hall of Fire

Anyone called?

So good to bump into you again, dear Wyrd sis!

Thanks friends. It's not looking good, so any help, even prayers, are gratefully welcome.

Freedom.

You know TED, that, together with vison's post, is more beautiful and inspiring to me than the thousands of lines of religious poetry I've ever read.

Hi V!

I'm afraid "seeker" doesn't describe me. I am not looking. I'm already there , and I found it long ago. "Appreciator"? "Lover"? "Child of the Universe"? "Grain of sand"? I love "Grain of Sand", vison. I'm another one who can be described a...

What better entertainment when insomniac than posting about favourite art...

Sadly now I'm very much the opposite of insomniac and at work. Sigh.

*zzz*

yov... it's "Snowstorm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps". Turner wrote a poem to go with the painting, and one of the lines is "While the fierce archer of the downward year..." , from where I mercilessly stole my usual sig. For you, yov; some of my favourite modern artist...

http://www.picturalissime.com/t/friedrich_la_grande_reserve.jpg Caspar David Friedrich http://inkpot.com/classical/images/zephyr.jpg Sandro Botticelli http://www.eyeconart.net/history/Renaissance/MichLibyanSybil.jpg Michelangelo http://www.eduardoalbiniilustrador.blogger.com.br/constantine%20PIERO%...

http://www.artofeurope.com/turner/tur14.jpg J.M.W. Turner http://freespace.virgin.net/robmar.tin/worsley/lady1.jpg Joshua Reynolds http://hogarth.althacker.com/works/164.jpg William Hogarth http://www.bath.ac.uk/internal/news/images/gainsborough-daughters.jpg Thomas Gainsborough http://www.histoire...

Yes - in fact, she enjoyed her marital life fully, and noisily, apparently.

I still find those Surrounded Islands beautiful. And I still can't explain why.

Oh, I don't know. I haven't read the manifesto. But it strikes a chord with me... I just find it beautiful!

Ethel!
I'm not here either, you see... Too, too busy IRL! (darned students! Why don't they know all there is to know about colour? Why is it me who has to teach them? )
See you all very soon.

Tempting me, eh V?

I know nothing about this... but it reminded me of Christo's "Surrounded Islands", a project that I found much more beautiful than his (in)famous wrapping of the Reichstag...

http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/si.html

I'll be back. [/Terminator]

Monasterio de Piedra, Spain

And there were far fewer distractions; no "Lost" on television to keep the mildly intelligent entertained. :D I like Jackson Pollock too (well, his works; apparently, he was quite the cad personally!), although I haven't seen any of his works, I think. I definitely should visit the Tate Mo...

Some more Rothkos here: http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/visualarts/Image-Library/Rothko/ Jny - I find the hushed tones people normally use in an art gallery interesting, because it's a relatively new phenomenon and dates from the time when society started becoming more secularized, in the ...

(Hey! So this is where those posts went? :D) I don't know the song, Jny, but the lyrics read as poetry. :) I know very little about Rothko. Only that he liked to paint vast canvases, in what look like very restricted colours but, on closer inspection, turn out to be many variations on one or two hue...

(moved to the Rothko thread)

I mean, if I don't know what it is, then its only purpose is to bring a certain geometrical shape into the composition at this point. Now, it may be that this really is all what Whistler wanted, but for me it is a bit too basic, I must say. Putting shapes where they should be to achieve an effect i...