Thursday, August 23, 2012
Saturday, September 1, 2012
"Set Relaxing"
9:27pm
It began with seeing a cool photo of a kangeroo shared by 'Positivity Toolbox' via the interwebz.
I couldn't look at that 'roo and NOT see Set. I hadda have a draw.
"Klimt's 'Hopeful' Painting"
9:33pm
 Gustav Klimt Austrian, 1862-1918 Hope II, 1907-08 Oil, gold, and platinum on canvas, 43 1/2 x 43 1/2" (110.5 x 110.5 cm). MOMA, 468.1978 |
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Earlier, I was hunting a photo for the Photo Friday theme of "Modern Life". I settled on one taken from the outdoor grounds at MOMA in New York. I thought the looming skyscrapers suggested 'modernity', while the green life below surges. While on that hunt, I came across this photo of Klimt's painting.
Eric Kandel, the author of that book Julia read quotes to me, is much impressed with Klimt. He says biology had a "profound influence" on Klimt and cites the medical historian Tatjana Buklijas, "a closer look at Klimt's work in the years immediately after 1903 reveals an abundance of shapes ... reminiscent of epithelium [cells] with black 'nuclei' in whiteish 'cytoplasm'." |
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