by Gary | Feb 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
Raffaelo Monti (Italian), “Veiled Lady,” marble, 1860. A bust subsequent to his famous full-figure sculpture “Veiled Vestal,” seen in the 2005 film of “Pride and Prejudice.” Why did he return to the same subject? I suspect he...
by Gary | Feb 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
Odilon Redon (French), “Two Trees,” 1875, charcoal. I see trees as figures in motion. Actors on a stage, hitting their marks, performing a mysterious drama. They have bodies and limbs and gestures that suggest movement by the way they have grown in...
by Gary | Feb 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
Nikki McClure, “Start Over Time.” Paper cut. Olympia, Washington. A squirrel drey in a tree high above (where it belongs, not in my window AC where the fluffy little pea brains have been packing sticks and leaves). Like all of Nikki’s work, this...
by Gary | Feb 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
Katherine Stone, “Icarus III.” A fallen Ruby Crowned Kinglet, its wing feathers mirrored by the pages of an open book. This one touched my heart. A lifeless but miraculous creature to behold. I’m fond of these wee birds, the little wren, the...
by Gary | Feb 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi), The Deposition, c.1603. Also called “The Entombment of Christ,” but that’s not what is depicted. John and Nicodemus are laying the body of Jesus on the stone to be bathed and anointed before burial. We see grieving...
