thanks to the internet, I could have
the world’s best art on my walls.
I’ve always had the world’ best literature
in my bookcases/Kindles and now I could
have the pictures to go with it.
Downloaded art may not have the intimacy
ofreal-life brush work or the excitement of
light gleaming on a paint smear and maybe
the colors aren’t exactly the same, but
Leonardos and Picassos and Hocknes
on my very own walls? Thrilling.
Every time I walk past one of my favorites,
I beam and savor another detail of
Uccello's beautiful compositions,
grin at Picasso's arrogant angles,
wince at the agonies of Bacon.
Living with great art makes you
straighten up as you pass a masterpiece
and aim a little higher in your endeavors.
GUERNICA - a mural-sized painting 11′ 6″ x 25′ 6″
Oil on canvas by Spanish artist Pablo PICASSO
April 26, 1937–June 1937, in Paris.
(Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain)
Oil on canvas by Spanish artist Pablo PICASSO
April 26, 1937–June 1937, in Paris.
(Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain)
- Picasso requested that Guernica should remain
at MOMA in NY until Franco died and
only then be returned to Spain.
Being an expressionof national outrage,
this painting has never been sold.
at MOMA in NY until Franco died and
only then be returned to Spain.
Being an expressionof national outrage,
this painting has never been sold.
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Crucifixion, 1962 Oil and sand on canvas by Francis BACON
Irish-born British artist 1909-1992
(The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York)
- Bacon’s work isn't easy on the eye but
- Bacon’s work isn't easy on the eye but
I do like the cheery tangerine of
these three paintings despite the
cowering lumps of bloody gristle.
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Paolo UCCELLO. Tempera on wood panels. 1435 - 1460
(National Gallery, London /Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence /
Musée du Louvre, Paris)
- Uccello is easy on the eye: fat, prancing horses, designy lances,
- Uccello is easy on the eye: fat, prancing horses, designy lances,
colorful pennants and turbaned warriors fighting in an orange grove.
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