Posted on 08/04/2021 4:43:11 PM PDT by simpson96
Early in his career, the actor Bill Murray was depressed, mulling suicide, and walking around Chicago when he wandered into the Art Institute. There, he came across a painting that saved his life: The Song of the Lark (1884) by the French painter Jules Breton, as he explained at a 2014 press conference that has suddenly begun circulating online. (The event was for The Monuments Men, in which he stars.)
The painting shows a girl lost in thought, taking a break from working in a dimly lit field with a sickle.
Murray: “I thought, ‘Well, there’s a girl who doesn’t have a whole lot of prospects, but the sun’s coming up anyway and she’s got another chance at it. So I think that gave me some sort of feeling that I, too, am a person, and I get another chance every day the sun comes up.”
As it happens, the Breton is on view at the museum now, in Gallery 222, where it perhaps feels a bit overshadowed by works from bigger names, like Manet, Courbet, and Constable. No longer!
(Excerpt) Read more at artnews.com ...
Could also be a sunSET, Bill, and she’s about to play out a slasher movie...
That girl looks a little like my wife - when she was younger.
So the movie What About Bob was autobiographical
My mom, a Kansas girl, always loved the sound of the meadowlark. It was worth stopping and listening.
Am I cynical enough to surmise this article was written right now, to trick people into sympathy for Hunter Biden? That artwork is therapeutic, that it can be life changing for the good? Am I THAT CYNICAL? Yes, yes I am.
That’s a good painting. It almost looks like an early stage version of something Andrew Wyatt would have done.
Great anatomy from a raised perspective.
But in looking up this artwork, I found that the title alludes to it being a sunrise, because the Lark sings at daybreak.
Since her right heel is up, I'd say she's walking and, unless french girls are more often mouth-breathers than not, I wouldn't call that expression "lost in thought".
I'm not sure you can conclude the whether the sun is rising or setting either.
If I took a whirl at mind reading, I'd say the expression indicates:
If morning: "Crap, not only did I forget my shoes, I came all the way out here with my sickle and there's nothing to cut!" (note the bare field)
If evening: "Crap, I left my bundle behind!"
Maybe Groundhog Day was autobiographical.
Funny, though. Watching What about Bob while reading this thread.
How stupid are we??
Looks like she is looking for someone trying to force her to be vaccinated.
Lol
I had lunch with the dude. Straight up down home kind of guy but definitely strange as hell.
“I feel good, I feel great, I feel wonderful!”
I also thought it was sunset.
I believe you mean Andrew Wyeth
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