What I enjoy the most about this sculpture is the unstudied, unaffected aspects of it. The nudity is very natural, the curves very real. It’s only when you reach the facial features that you suddenly realize that the sculptor has gotten a little careless and his model’s face has become something more simplistic and expressionist than realistic.
Thursday
This painting is a bit like ‘choose your own adventure’ but with colors and shapes. You know it’s meant to be goats and you know it’s meant to be mountains, but everything else is subjective.
Wednesday
You can read about the painting all you want, but until you look at it, you don’t understand it. To me, the real focus of the picture is in the background, in the moonlight glow – the focal point for the rest of the action is there. The campfire and lighthouse become evident only after you see the moonlight, and the reflection of the moonlight off the water. Everything about this composition is about light, even in the darkness. It is everything.
Tuesday
This particular work reminds me of Mrs. Hughes from Downton Abbey for some reason. I don’t know why; it just does.
Monday
There is a lot of crossover between Rococo design and Victorian Impressionism; the repression of sexuality in public while glorifying it in private, all the while alluding to it in portraiture, sketches, etc., is very similar. Renoir’s palette of ‘girly’ pastel hues and feminine lines makes this painting flirty, fresh, and inviting in a borderline naughty way.
Sunday
There is something very powerful about the nature of this work; it screams strength in solitude, but also strength in nature’s embrace. Without one, you cannot have the other. There is beauty in the madness, and softness in the darkness.
Saturday
This particular painting is very small but very mighty in its mastery of spacial acuity, color, dimensional flow, and everything else that goes with holding the attention of an audience. By far, it is my favorite of the newest additions to the collection.
Friday
This is another sculpture where you can feel the emotions that are meant to be communicated without any kind of extraneous filler nonsense. Rodin knew his shit.
Thursday
The textures of this sculpture are really something else. There is a richness and a feel to it that is lacking in many other similar works. The overall feeling of pained resignation and a determination to carry personal dignity right to the very end is literally leaping out of the bronze.
Wednesday
This is like the precursor still life to all of those random still lives we saw in the 1980s that ended up in washrooms all over the USA. It’s like the Golden Girls of still lives: and I don’t mean that in a bad way. It’s just a very specific style that’s been reused so many times over the years.