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Friedrich von Amerling (1803-1887)
In Traumen Versunken
Oil on canvas
Private collectionok… excuse me…. i’m going to geek-out about art for a minute…
the thing about works like this is, you really have to be standing in front of them.
in art school a lot of the theory classes spoke about the ‘death of painting’ and ‘art in the age of reproduction’… and while i grant that i am extremely interested in these topics, i have to say that nothing has ever hit me upside the head like standing in front of sweerts’s “head of an old woman”.
when i first saw it at the getty in LA, i stood literally transfixed for about 20 minutes. i couldn’t leave it. i wanted to see it in my mind always. i tried with all my might to etch every detail - from her soft diverted eyes to the latches on her jacket - into my brain so that i would always be able to recall it.
a work unknown to me previously and yet one that shook me more than any other portrait before or since - i would have dismissed it in any art book, on any postcard and in any blog post.
go stand in front of art. there’s really nothing like it.
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this is so cool!
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Bjork by Erez Sabag
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