I'm Remembering!

One of my favorite works by Bruegel, The Return of the Hunters.  

I was lucky enough to see this in the real at the Kunsthistorisches Museum 

in Vienna.  You can feel how cold it is in the painting.  It's really hard

not to look at it.  It pulls you in.  Even as I write this post I keep

getting distracted and remembering the actual experience of seeing it.

When I first started art school I remember my introduction to visual 

language class.  Basically it was an art history class where students

are taught how to talk about the visual experience intelligently

 learning words like chiaroscuro and grisaille.  This was the first 

class I had to write papers about works of art.  I was terrified 

because I didn't know what I was "supposed" to write about.  It was 

the first paper I had to write using my brain.  There was no format 

to follow.  I ended up enjoying it and looked forward to writing

assignments.  It was a relief writing and knowing that as long as

 I backed up what I was saying I was free to write whatever I wanted.

I was one of those kids that did not thrive on multiple choice tests.

 

A while back I saw Museum Hours, a movie about a security guard

at the Kunsthistorisches Museum.  A movie about the art museum

and the experience of being with works of art. 

Maybe I will watch it again tonight.

 

Richard Tuttle Watercolors

The work of Christy Wittmer

Enjoyed seeing work at the CAC last weekend.  They were showing graduate work 

from the University of Cincinnati.  I especially enjoyed the works by

Christy Wittmer.

Contemporary Art Center

Recently I visited the Contemporary Art Center.

Some images.

 I really responded to the architecture and the materials

of the building itself.  I liked the building better than most 

of the exhibits.

 In fact, most of the floors were taken over by an 

art is craft interactive show that was a bit annoying.

Interactive displays asked you to scream, some displays

were noisy and it felt more like a fad than interesting

work.  Nothing sticks.  Three whole floors dedicated

to this stuff.  However, some elements caught 

my eye and I isolated them with my camera.

 Child art from one of the interactive galleries.

 Another nice element to the building was the views.

 The second floor had work by Hema Upadhyay.

The work is remniscent of the slums of India.

Collecting

I re-watched  Herb and Dorothy recently with Jace.  

I wish we were in the position to collect art.  

A collection of mine and Jace's blended aesthetics that change over time.  

We do have a few of Matt Lock's works 

and we have a postcard from a girl 

who makes photographs for postcards.  

I don't remember her name.    

Currently exhibiting at the Cincinnati Art Museum is a

show of selections from the collection of Emily Rauh Pulitzer

Think I will go see her this afternoon.

April entering

The Taft's carpets + vintage Christmas ornaments

The Taft Museum's Carpet... I told you they were nice.

Other nice articles from the Taft.  May have shown these before.

The Taft had an antique Christmas Ornament Show

on display while we were there.  A lot of nice texture.

More of the Cincinnati Art Musuem

One room of the Cincinnati Art Musuem has paneled wooden walls with 

faces at the top.  One is old and one s young, but they look like

the same person.  It was strange seeing them side by side.

Somehow, seeing them smiling above you in a wood

paneled room seamed so "twin peaks" to me.

 Here is Saint Anthony.  Nice posture and

turn of the head.

Patron saint of lost articles.

He died of Edema.

Happenings...

Taft Art Museum

Yesterday we went to the Taft Art Museum 

Funny, because whenever I hear William Taft

I think of him stuck in a bathtub.

The museum had an extremely nice asian

collection, mostly ceramics.

 All the fu dogs reminded me of my shih tzu, Ebe.

The museum also had great carpets.

I should have taken pictures.

 

Nathan Prouty

 

 

 

 

Nathan Prouty