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The Arts; Renzo Piano reboot of Harvard Art Museums
Topic Started: Nov 14 2014, 11:36 PM (242 Views)
LillyBee
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From the Guardian today.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/nov/14/renzo-piano-reboot-of-harvard-art-museums-largely-triumphs

One of the reasons I loved Chicago was the fact magnificent art was everywhere.

I can see where this might be last on the list of some people's needs but when people are feed and happy it is such a nice addition to a full life....the appreciation of the eloquence of it all.
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The only time I usually visit a museum is when I am on holiday. When I lived in a big city, I only went when I had visitors from abroad. Through the internet and books and magazines, we have more access to images than people had when famous art works were made for rich patrons. I do appreciate how it is aesthetically different to see exhibits on display but that is not so easy for the majority.

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It .. It is GREEN !!
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Heinrich
Nov 15 2014, 12:25 AM
The only time I usually visit a museum is when I am on holiday. When I lived in a big city, I only went when I had visitors from abroad. Through the internet and books and magazines, we have more access to images than people had when famous art works were made for rich patrons. I do appreciate how it is aesthetically different to see exhibits on display but that is not so easy for the majority.

well yes i can appreciate that, and indeed there are a number of online resources created spefically to give people remote access to facsimiles of works of art and cultural artifacts of historical significance. And I have lost count of the number of times I have meant to call in at the cathedral to see the Mappa Mundi but ended up at the bottom of the Barrella Cider instead, to itemise just one of my personal failings in this area.

But there are some aspects of this you cannot "do" online, IMO. Years ago I wandered round Scotland's National Gallery in edinburgh, there were paintings in there a good sixty feet long ... you need to go and stand there and feel belittled by it as the artist intended ...

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you need to go and stand there and feel belittled by it as the artist intended ...


There is a small but interesting museum in Fredericton New Brunswick ... the Beaverbrook museum that holds Lord Beaverbrook's private collection. Originally, here was a rather magnificent, bloody great Dali right as you walk in ... Santiago El Grande. It is stunning, breathtaking. They moved it from the entrance for whatever environmental reasons.
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I did see Picasso's Guernica last year in the Queen Sofia Museum, Madrid. It takes up a whole wall.

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I just love Picasso, here is one of my favorites, it is called 'Asleep

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g306/minnie50/03-Asleep.jpg
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Funny, I used the direct link from photobucket so it should have posted and not just link. Oh well no biggie.
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Curious Cdn
Nov 15 2014, 03:16 AM
you need to go and stand there and feel belittled by it as the artist intended ...


There is a small but interesting museum in Fredericton New Brunswick ... the Beaverbrook museum that holds Lord Beaverbrook's private collection. Originally, here was a rather magnificent, bloody great Dali right as you walk in ... Santiago El Grande. It is stunning, breathtaking. They moved it from the entrance for whatever environmental reasons.
The very top of this link shows some of his best. His Chapel is such a magnificent piece of art as well.

http://dali.exhibits.wag.ca/promos

These had to be the ones you spoke of in your post.
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Nov 15 2014, 02:48 AM
Heinrich
Nov 15 2014, 12:25 AM
The only time I usually visit a museum is when I am on holiday. When I lived in a big city, I only went when I had visitors from abroad. Through the internet and books and magazines, we have more access to images than people had when famous art works were made for rich patrons. I do appreciate how it is aesthetically different to see exhibits on display but that is not so easy for the majority.

well yes i can appreciate that, and indeed there are a number of online resources created spefically to give people remote access to facsimiles of works of art and cultural artifacts of historical significance. And I have lost count of the number of times I have meant to call in at the cathedral to see the Mappa Mundi but ended up at the bottom of the Barrella Cider instead, to itemise just one of my personal failings in this area.

But there are some aspects of this you cannot "do" online, IMO. Years ago I wandered round Scotland's National Gallery in edinburgh, there were paintings in there a good sixty feet long ... you need to go and stand there and feel belittled by it as the artist intended ...

I have to come back to this one to look over again.

https://www.nationalgalleries.org/visit/introduction-114
Edited by LillyBee, Nov 16 2014, 02:25 PM.
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Nov 16 2014, 02:08 PM
I just love Picasso, here is one of my favorites, it is called 'Asleep

[url]http://i59.photobucket.com/al
Asleep and Georgia O'Keeffe's Poppy are on a full wall in Chicago as well as the brilliant one you posted Heinrich.
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LillyBee
Nov 16 2014, 02:30 PM
LillyBee
Nov 16 2014, 02:08 PM
I just love Picasso, here is one of my favorites, it is called 'Asleep

[url]http://i59.photobucket.com/al
Asleep and Georgia O'Keeffe's Poppy are on a full wall in Chicago as well as the brilliant one you posted Heinrich.


I too enjoyed Chicago and learnt something when there.
Chicago vied with New York to be the US centre for excellence and competed with NY to host the 1893 World Exposition - all about trade and inward investment.
That's when the first ferris wheel was designed and built - Chicago it seems saw itself as the Commercial Capital, still does or aspires to be. I was told that the term 'Windy City' refers not to the weather but to the character of Chicagoans ..... mouthy!

Regardless, Chicago was a delightful experience - in September and temperatures in the low 20s centigrade = Warm.

In a sky scraper looking down on sky scrapers is a sight I will never forget.



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Nov 16 2014, 02:10 PM
Funny, I used the direct link from photobucket so it should have posted and not just link. Oh well no biggie.
LillyBee, you must use the IMG link and delete the URL section.

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Nov 16 2014, 02:08 PM
I just love Picasso, here is one of my favorites, it is called 'Asleep

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g306/minnie50/03-Asleep.jpg
An image which captures the very essence of the act, minimalism at its most superb.

See, I can "do" brian sewell
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Heinrich
Nov 19 2014, 05:53 PM
LillyBee
Nov 16 2014, 02:10 PM
Funny, I used the direct link from photobucket so it should have posted and not just link. Oh well no biggie.
LillyBee, you must use the IMG link and delete the URL section.

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Asleep
Really :) IMG will bring it up. Thanks Sir.
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Nov 19 2014, 08:01 PM
LillyBee
Nov 16 2014, 02:08 PM
I just love Picasso, here is one of my favorites, it is called 'Asleep

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g306/minnie50/03-Asleep.jpg
An image which captures the very essence of the act, minimalism at its most superb.

See, I can "do" brian sewell
You sure can. 8-)
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My favorite Picasso sculpture that stands over Chicago looking down and protecting it.

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Here are some of the details: http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/chicago_s_publicartthepicassountitledsculpture.html
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