Notes from a walk in the Art Institute

Words in italics are scraps from my notebook as I wondered the Chicago Art Institute. The rest are things that struck me in no particular order.

Been so long since I have been in a museum. Interesting to see how I was drawn to form, sculpture, Buddhist art.

In a museum, each brushstroke a revelation of inspiration and technique.

Take lessons. Work more with canvas + materials non-trad for me. OIL AND SAND in with paint.

Red figure technique of pottery painting.

Interesting that the interpretive signs, some of them, tell us how to feel about the paintings. “May indicate Man’s destruction of Nature…” in addition to giving us the history of the work.

Compare to the interpretive sign for Turning Point of Thirst, by Victor Brauner 1934, wherin the sign scratches it’s head saying, I just don’t know what this one means when it’s obvious to the viewer (at least this viewer). Um, hello? AA anyone?

The above was painted as a response to Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks” (below).

One of the current exhibits was of contemporary Dutch photography. I loved Wijnanda Deroo’s work. Photograph empty spaces Take tripod back to Prescott.

18th Century “I got my eye on you” came from a tradition of wearing a miniature photograph of one’s lover’s eye on one’s lapel. From the interpretive sign on Magritte’s “The Eye”, which was of his wife Gertrude’s eye.

I loved Joseph Cornell’s Soap Bubble boxes.

Pollack’s Gray Rainbow

Do a collage with 10 panels called A New Threshold of Liberty in the style of Margarete Top right is X, bottom R is backwall/sky (empty) w/ a machine gun shooting X.

Great sketch for the famous “Rape of Sabine”.

Angel Planell’s Midday Sorrow

Picasso Head Oil and chalk on canvas.

Albright’s Dorian Gray a painting he did for the film which was based on the book by Oscar Wilde .