The early years...
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Starry
Night is the first painting I remember. My mom loved this painting... |
...and
her favorite flower was the iris. I will always associate Van Gogh's Iris
paintings with her and her love of the flower and the color purple. |
Monet
was also beloved in our house, especially the impressionist garden paintings.
|
The
DeYoung had an exhibit of Tiffany glass when I was a kid. It made a huge
impression on me... |
...especially
the nouveau flora. |
The
DeYoung also got the Tut show. It flabbergasted me, even at the tender
age of nine. I was especially fond of the Isis figures. |
Judith's
I & II by Klimt were my favorite paintings. But until college, I didn't
realize... |
...that
is a severed head at her fingertips! |
This
painting, 'Die Musik', also by Klimt, was destroyed in a fire many moons
before I was born and I am still lamenting its loss. |
I
discovered the Lady of Shalott through the PBS adaptation of Anne of Green
Gables and became obsessed with it. AGG also got me stuck on the poem
the Highwayman by Alfred Noyes. PBS feeds the young! Support
your local PBS station! |
J.W.
Waterhouse's Circe. Love him. |
My
mom was a fan of Gauguin and I spent hours pouring over the books she
had of his work. |
I
discovered John Singer Sargent on my own and this made him feel like he
was mine. |
Madam
X (aka Madam Gautreau) was my favorite. Originally the right strap was
off her shoulder - it was scandalous and had to repainted! |
When
my uncle Jamie found out I liked Sargent he got in the habit of giving
me a Sargent calendar for Christmas. He did it for six years. I saved
all of them. |
I
got to see this one when I was 16. I couldn't believe how small it was
and it gave me my first lesson in "small but powerful" painting,
a style I eventually decided to adopt for myself. |
Another
of mom's favorites to become one of my favorites was Winslow Homer. |
This
is my favorite Homer. I always thought the shock of red was stunning against
the blue. I still do. |
The
same trip that I saw Sargent's 'Red Room' we went to the O'Keefe show.
This painting was on buses and huge billboards all over Washington D.C.
I was stunned to see that the original was teeny tiny! This solidified
my understanding of "small but powerful". |
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