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This past weekend we took some visiting friends to the Getty to see The Surrealist Muse It was the greatest. I've never been terribly exposed to Lee Miller's work, but my god was a i blown away. Of course I always get a hard on and feel in the presence of greatness when i see a Man Ray print, but Lee Miller's work blew me away. her work during WWII was particularly moving as she was one of the few women photographers who had carte blanche. There are pictures of her and her friends sitting in Hitler's bathtub after his fall. Photos of Third Reich officials and their families who had committed suicide when the Allies took Berlin and many others. Check out her archive here and still, many of my favorites are not on display here, but this seems to be the most comprehensive site. Unfortunately, I can't locate, right away, some Man Ray images of Lee Miller, because they were, by far, some of the best images i've ever seen from him. At times like this, i have to step away. I can only look at the images for seconds. I get so worked up, so inspired, so titillated that i sometimes have to stop looking. This goes the same for my photobooks as well.I can only look at them so much. Have you seen anything as of late? |
I was really disappointed by the Corcoran -- I don't know if they were renovating or what, but all the hordes of John Singer Sargents and Roy Lichtensteins they claim to have were nowhere in sight. They had some other 19th century American painters on exhibit and some interesting modern art, but nothing that great. The Renwick museum has a large exhibit of Frank Lloyd Wright's stained glass windows, which were cool. The rest of the museum houses some modern artsy textiles (quilts made of metal wire, carved wooden vases, etc.). I like this Lee Miller photo. |
this was one of my more favorite images of the war. There was another, where someone in the London during the bombing, had made a sign using a plant potter and a scrap piece of wood warning of live bombs in the ruins ahead and placed the sign in the middle of the street. This was another favorite. ohhh i found more galleries... Im not sure who this woman is, but i love the image. its clean lines work for me |
I liked the image I linked to because it's neat how the lens of the camera mirrors the mouthpiece of the gas mask. The Corcoran had this interesting painting by Ida Applebroog, called "Mother mother I am ill" -- it's kind of hard to explain but bear with me. Heh. It showed in outline a bear about to smash a sleeping girl over the head with a rock. Around the girl were images of people talking, a man behind a desk, and other jumbled/confused pictures in red and yellow. I couldn't figure out if the images were supposed to be dreams that the girl was having, or if certain ones (yellow ones?) were real and the others were dreams, or who the bear was, or what. But it was neat. |
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The windows/screens were displayed so as to give us an idea of how they would look set in the walls of a house. Some were very simple, consisting mostly of lead lines with maybe one tiny square of colored glass set in the bottom, and some were very elaborate, showing lots of colors and different shapes. My favorite window there was designed for the (or one of the) prairie house(s) he built, and it showed what looked like two thistles side by side. Very pretty. |
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Some of them had designs that looked like wheat and other plants. Really pretty. Ever notice how tired you get walking around museums? It almost seems like you'd get more tired strolling around an art museum than walking quickly around the city for the same period of time. |
When I decided to go to the Corcoran a few weeks ago, that sketch was #1 on the list of things I wanted to see. (You know I'm fascinated by blindfolded figures in art.) Not only did I not see the sketch, but....the tickets were only $5. So, I'm thinking...maybe the museum got rid of a lot of its art? And now they're charging visitors less because there's less to see? |
i dont doubt the translusence of the windows. im just thinking of actual implimentation. im thinking strategic light application. nevermind. speaking of application and ultra coolness....check this out http://www.cm2a.com/ Artist Cameron McNall. Go to Projects. Check out his "Hollywood Shadow Project' and the "R-G-B" project at SCI-Arc. SCI-Arc is a progressive private architecture school that is housed in a former railroad cargo station....meaning, its a bldg about a 1/4 mile long. I havent actually seen the installation yet, but it sounds fanfucktastic |
