X Marks the Spot
Quote de jour
“A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.”
~John Singer Sargent
Art week continues...
Sargent's famous crowd pleaser at The Met is his life-sized portrait of Madame X (real name: Madame Pierre Gautreau). She feels utterly contemporary. The dress could have been designed yesterday, but painting created a scandal when exhibited in the 1884 Salon in Paris. Sargent kept the painting in his Paris studio, and later in his London studio. Eventually the painting was exhibited and sold to the Metropolitan Museum of Fine Art in 1916.
A guard preventing me from using a flash and to prevent a scandal of my own, I made this montage in her honor instead.
To turn the tables, lets look at women looking at art. The new exhibit of African art impressed with size and scope. These are ancestor totems.
So much art, so little time. Same old story, I wanted to sit awhile. Hard benches beckoned but what I really wanted...
was to climb onto this ancient Roman bed and dream of who slept in this "Princess and the Pea" bed...to be transported to another time and place. Art has a way for playing with our imagination. This story continues tomorrow, but I leave you with three questions today: how will you play? What spot is so important, you'll want to mark it with an "X"? What might spark your imagination? Come on, it's the beginning of a new month. Have fun!
“A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.”
~John Singer Sargent
Art week continues...
Sargent's famous crowd pleaser at The Met is his life-sized portrait of Madame X (real name: Madame Pierre Gautreau). She feels utterly contemporary. The dress could have been designed yesterday, but painting created a scandal when exhibited in the 1884 Salon in Paris. Sargent kept the painting in his Paris studio, and later in his London studio. Eventually the painting was exhibited and sold to the Metropolitan Museum of Fine Art in 1916.
A guard preventing me from using a flash and to prevent a scandal of my own, I made this montage in her honor instead.
To turn the tables, lets look at women looking at art. The new exhibit of African art impressed with size and scope. These are ancestor totems.
So much art, so little time. Same old story, I wanted to sit awhile. Hard benches beckoned but what I really wanted...
was to climb onto this ancient Roman bed and dream of who slept in this "Princess and the Pea" bed...to be transported to another time and place. Art has a way for playing with our imagination. This story continues tomorrow, but I leave you with three questions today: how will you play? What spot is so important, you'll want to mark it with an "X"? What might spark your imagination? Come on, it's the beginning of a new month. Have fun!
Posted by Layla Morgan Wilde at 2/1/2012 12:05 AM 
Categories: Design, New York, Humor, Art, Photography
Tags: x marks the spot sargent-madame x-portrait-quote ancient roman art-bed-met-NYC
Categories: Design, New York, Humor, Art, Photography
Tags: x marks the spot sargent-madame x-portrait-quote ancient roman art-bed-met-NYC
I'm loving this continuing narrative.
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