Welcome to another "hump" day. And here's the picture that has been waiting for you.
Overcast this morning--showers are expected to start later today with maybe moisture actually hitting the ground. That will be unique.Our second look today is just a little to the south of the above. It's one of those scenes where a portal or hole has seemingly opened up in teh clouds.
If you go in really close, it becomes a background that a baroque or rococo painter might use for some spiritual being or saint making an arrival or departure--it's the ethereal train station... |
| On this rococo church ceiling Jesus is perched on a rainbow (unfortunately the unicorn they scheduled was ill that day) |
Speaking of Jean Baptiste Greuze, he has always been one of my favorite painters. I first learned of him when my freshman Survey or Western Art touched on the baroque for a week. He inspired me to take the upper division course in baroque art later. We know he did not take criticism well (he got really pissed off when the Academy rejected one of his portraits presented in application). However, he did pretty well, but lived a high life and had a wife who enjoyed spending all his money such that he eventually died in poverty.In reconsidering his works, I've come to the conclusion that he must have been a pretty good lover. There's a sense of relaxed satisfaction and mild exhaustion that he puts on many of his young women subjects that I have only seen on very happy females "after the fact (and deed)." Maybe I'm imagining things? Gentlemen, you tell me when and where you have seen this expression before ... Greuze knows it well.
Check out more of his stuff ... it's a LOT easier to understand than Francis Bacon or Giacometti.
OK, art history lesson is over. Time to pay the rent. Have a great Wednesday.
Love,
Pops
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