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This is where I put things I like and want to share. There's not a whole lot here right now, but it might still be worth a visit.
Historic Art Exhibit
Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room
James McNeill Whistler, Thomas Jeckyll, 1877
James McNeill Whistler, Thomas Jeckyll, 1877
This room is an archetypal example of Art Nouveau's attempt to bridge the esoteric world of fine arts and the every day banality of ordinary life.
It is reasonable, perhapse, to criticize the decadance and exclusivity of works such as this which resulted from the Art Nouveau movement, but one cannot help wondering at the ideal of a world where fine art is a thing for all people to participate in throughout their daily lives.
Jupiter and Semele
Gustave Moreau, 1895
Gustave Moreau, 1895
This painting depicts a scene from the mythology of the god Dionysus. It is very dense with symbolism, and to describe all of it would be quite impossible.
Semele, beloved of Zeus and mortal mother of Dionysus, is provoked by wrathful Hera, and demands that Zeus come to her undisguised. Oathbound to fulfill any wish she desires, Zeus appears before Semele in his full divinity, and she is destroyed by his glory.
The work represents divine love and its inseparability from death.
Campbell's Soup I
Andy Warhol, 1968
Andy Warhol, 1968
A screen print of a can of soup.
If you cannot even find beauty in something as lowly as a soup can, you are truly doomed.