tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8720084087539855728.post4009067212615566967..comments2023-07-07T06:32:43.264-07:00Comments on Art Matters: To See, or Not to SeeMarilyn Baumanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09221864675491721708noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8720084087539855728.post-32511954111685715662015-08-23T13:55:35.456-07:002015-08-23T13:55:35.456-07:00I agree Beth.I agree Beth.Marilyn Baumanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09221864675491721708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8720084087539855728.post-61104513261127301032015-08-22T17:54:31.504-07:002015-08-22T17:54:31.504-07:00Still yet another reason why art is so important i...Still yet another reason why art is so important in our world. Experiencing art can be as rewarding as creating art.Beth Camagnanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8720084087539855728.post-39608486440196801342015-08-21T08:43:26.398-07:002015-08-21T08:43:26.398-07:00I can think of no better reason to go to museums a...I can think of no better reason to go to museums and galleries as well as study art appreciation--it allows us to see more in our everyday world because of it. I enjoy this description by Aldous Huxley in "The Doors of Perception." Granted, he was under the influence of mescalin, but we can see what he saw because we know art. As he looked at his table, chair, and desk, this is what he saw: "The three pieces formed an intricate pattern of horizontals, uprights and diagonals--a pattern all the more interesting for not being interpreted in terms of spatial relationships. Table, chair and desk came together in a composition that was like something by Braque or Juan Gris, a still life recognizably related to the objective world, but rendered without depth, without any attempt at photographic realism. I was looking at my furniture ...as the pure aesthete whose concern is only with forms and their relationships within ...the picture space." <br /><br />That is what we do when we look at paintings objectively, and this transfers that skill to our everyday world without any need of drugs. Marilyn Baumanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09221864675491721708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8720084087539855728.post-16231592661395577482015-08-20T20:00:16.340-07:002015-08-20T20:00:16.340-07:00Often I can note a part of a landscape as a corner...Often I can note a part of a landscape as a corner of a familiar plein air painting or see a cityscape with scurrying people as a scene in a Rafael Soyer painting or the face of a withered old man as one Rembrandt might have painted. What an gift to know art and to realize how much it enhances everyday life.dmbrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10161630859604294183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8720084087539855728.post-52229598426980118762015-08-20T16:15:42.841-07:002015-08-20T16:15:42.841-07:00Nice to hear from you Ginny. Thank you for respon...Nice to hear from you Ginny. Thank you for responding!Marilyn Baumanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09221864675491721708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8720084087539855728.post-71801620373709343082015-08-20T14:26:48.123-07:002015-08-20T14:26:48.123-07:00Fascinating, Marilyn. I loved the "connection...Fascinating, Marilyn. I loved the "connections" you were able to make between your photos and the Glackens paintings. Informed Perception indeed! Very enlightening. Thank you.Ginny Lovitznoreply@blogger.com