Bursting

This is a peice I found in art gallery in New York well on their sight. I Know I am not an art critic this caught my eye and I wanted t take some time to take it in and share it with you. I really believe art is for people if they do not feel or feel like they can it is a waist. I hope you enjoy this and that I have something to share about what took in and that you do as well share what you feel about this with me and others.

Listen to Living

Roberto Matta (Chilean, 1911-2002)

The first impression I get is about destruction and life with just the colors and shapes the volcano looking thing erupting with the life below but as I looked longer I stopped focusing so much on the face image I saw in the blue "smoke" in you will from the eruption trying to look at just the colors I love the light and dark in this the vibrating with the void of the black. The 'lava" I first saw became more person like like bursting forth in celebration and the volcano more like legs like a mother giving birth. I found objects in the warp of the painting I think this is a painting about the environment and the flow of life destruction and birth. It is brilliancy bring both into the same image this way. the flowers and animals as much of it as the people images.

What did you see?

Taking me back.

This is an image from Paul wright's painting It just popped out to me when looking for what I was going to look at for today. Take at least 10 min and let it affect you. it is so hard in our days to do that we are so used to flipping through pictures so fast making quick judgments about them we miss the effect that one piece can have on us.

I see so much dignity in these faces they remind me of my own grand parents the loss of life drips off of them but the vibrant people they are shines through even if life has worn them down. this makes me want to cry at the hardness of life and the beauty of it too. the strength she holds and the kindness of his heart lives in his eyes. they are in love with the closeness of how they sit but it is a tempestuous thing for them. This may be just me putting my grandparents in this with their nick names for each other being you old crow said with such playful affection. The is so much sadness dripping from their eyes. Her hands seem more wringing now than closed off. I am over whelmed with the desire to want to know them they seem like they have so much to say stories I need to know of life and loss. the way this is painted brings so much life to it so much of what I think is in side the people bursting out. It makes me long for my grand parents all sides everyone, but they are all gone now. I wish I knew them more as people not as a child sees an adult but really know who they are. To see them as individuals not just mom dad or grandma and grandfather. This seems briming with longing for me.

What does this say to you? Please share with me.

This is the sight I got this off of please if you enjoyed this visit and enjoy more of his work. http://www.escapeintolife.com/painting/paul-wright/

Winged Victory of Samothrace

I want to look at this image of this sculpture and divorce it from the faces and thing you might now about it and just take in what you see here let it talk to you what does it make you feel what is the artist saying with in this sculpture. what questions does it bring to mind. this is not for the arterati who can  speak about meaning of this swoop here and meaning of that movement there mean bla bla bla. This is about art real art affects people it sticks you in side and brings forth something anything really no wrong answer it is just what it says to you. At least 10 min and just look at it without trying to come up with any thing then take the next 10 to write down your thoughts on it. 

This is what I felt in looking at this work without knowing the history of it, it wrecked it when I did but this is how I saw it.

                                                     "Where is the head? How old is this thing? If the arms are wings what would the head have been? Did they break it or find it broken? OK OK hypocrite start just feeling flight freedom grace. wait it doesn't have a foot either would the foot have been a foot or a claw oh maybe a cheetah foot.... or would the bird thing have continued talons to rip you to shreds.  SO how old is this they just had reality then no photoshop or anything how does one go from reality to wing arms with just the imagination this was pretoilet how does one do that? ok ok focus breath it in let it feed your soul. boldness anticipation mystery in direction with the leg covered like that. strength beauty This had to be made by a man the female form is beautiful but this had to be made by a man. ripped dress to show the navel just like the graphic novels this could be the birth of those pictures. Great now I am seeing this artist as the comic book guy from the Simpsons. This is kindda prof that the geek crowd has been a while for a long time for all time this is super old. The birth of summer block buster is right here battle star Galactica birthed in this stone. Oh great now I actually have to write that if I am going to be honest about what I thought and felt about this as I looked at it wonderful. Stop it stop it just look take it in . moving forward this looks like uncertain with the wind only storms blow wind like that. This makes me feel courageous like braving a new direction with boldness."


SO then I looked it up and found out it was in fact an image of Nike goddess of victory riding a ship she was made in Greece around 190 BC she was riding on a ship (in my defense was not in the picture I studied.).  The original is in the Louver in France, the picture I studied for my impressions was on their web sight. So good or bad this is what I felt thought and saw what did you feel think and see?