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I like the communications tower in the centre of the picture, rising above everything in its surrounding.Wednesday, July 7, 2010
THE EVENING SKYLINE
I like the communications tower in the centre of the picture, rising above everything in its surrounding.
Monday, July 5, 2010
THE AMERICA WINDOWS BY MARC CHAGALL
“For me a stained glass window is a transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world. Stained glass has to be serious and passionate. It is something elevating and exhilarating. It has to live through the perception of light.”Marc Chagall
I first came across Marc Chagall while working on an art project in the 12th grade and since then the work of this Russian-French artist has always absorbed me. His interrogation of life in the light of a refined, anxious, childlike sensibility, a slightly romantic temperament combining with a blend of sadness and gaiety was characteristic of a grave view towards life.
His work with stained glass windows was one medium that allowed him to further express his desire to create intense and fresh colors and had the added benefit of natural light and refraction interacting and constantly changing.
Words do not have the power to describe Chagall's spirituality behind colors, its singing quality, its dazzling luminosity, its ever more subtle flow, and its sensitivity to the inflections of the soul and the transports of the imagination. It is simultaneously jewel-hard and foamy, reverberating and penetrating, radiating light from an unknown interior.
According to art historians Ingo Walther and Rainer Metzger,
“His (Chagall’s) life and art together added up to this image of a lonesome visionary, a citizen of the world with much of the child still in him, a stranger lost in wonder — an image which the artist did everything to cultivate. Profoundly religious and with a deep love of the homeland, his work is arguably the most urgent appeal for tolerance and respect of all that is different that modern times could make.”
I first came across Marc Chagall while working on an art project in the 12th grade and since then the work of this Russian-French artist has always absorbed me. His interrogation of life in the light of a refined, anxious, childlike sensibility, a slightly romantic temperament combining with a blend of sadness and gaiety was characteristic of a grave view towards life.
His work with stained glass windows was one medium that allowed him to further express his desire to create intense and fresh colors and had the added benefit of natural light and refraction interacting and constantly changing.
Words do not have the power to describe Chagall's spirituality behind colors, its singing quality, its dazzling luminosity, its ever more subtle flow, and its sensitivity to the inflections of the soul and the transports of the imagination. It is simultaneously jewel-hard and foamy, reverberating and penetrating, radiating light from an unknown interior.
According to art historians Ingo Walther and Rainer Metzger,
“His (Chagall’s) life and art together added up to this image of a lonesome visionary, a citizen of the world with much of the child still in him, a stranger lost in wonder — an image which the artist did everything to cultivate. Profoundly religious and with a deep love of the homeland, his work is arguably the most urgent appeal for tolerance and respect of all that is different that modern times could make.”
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