Posted on 10/18/2002 3:18:25 PM PDT by rhema
Actually, Kincaid is a Mormon, a faith that offers a convincing superficial simulcrum of Christianity spread as a gloss over a heart of bizarre and unreal cultic mind-warp.
"The Fog Warning". One of the men Kipling wrote about in "Captains Courageous", about the same time period.
"Life Line".
"The Gulf Stream" - probably Homer's most well-known painting.
He had an amazing range. He could paint homely New England scenes, wild seascapes, intimate portraits. His Civil War work is wonderful. To-wit, the following little capsule summary of the war "Prisoners from the Front". He nails the characters of the men in this painting perfectly, and honestly - even though he was a New Englander himself, he knocks the prissy REMF Union officer off in one.
And in a completely different mood, with equal if not greater skill:
Every time I look at his work again I am in awe.
I will.
And when the Museum reopens, and the painting is on display once again, perhaps you'll get a chance to see it in person.
Ack! I just looked up online when it's scheduled to reopen -- Spring of 2005. That is depressing. I don't know why it has to take that many years. But then again, San Francisco does everything very very slowly.
Maybe I'll start a panorama file (desktop slide show) using art works. That would be fun.
Re the museum and its long-delayed opening: I would write or call them anyhow, and ask if (1) they are instituting a print sale program in connection with the renovation; and (2) if they have this work out on loan. Storage on those things (especially big paintings) is outrageously expensive, has to be climate controlled, etc. Most curators faced with a long down-time like this will have placed everything they can with other museums. SOMEbody will be willing to talk to you and explain what's going on.
As far as the print sales program, I contacted the Tate Gallery several years ago looking for prints of some of their works (I'm a big fan of British painting and they have a very nice collection). May have just been a coincidence, but after I started bugging them they instituted a very well-organized and comprehensive print order program. You can obtain all major and many minor holdings on archive-quality paper in different sizes. Of course, you won't get that lovely texture on the moon, but a really nice print would be better than nothing at all!
Unfortunately there is nothing like standing in front of the Real Thing. We went to the Five Rings exhibit when it toured in connection with the '96 Olympics. It was almost overwhelming -- a couple of large Russian seascapes had me looking for a life jacket -- my kids were horrified/ fascinated by Artemisia Gentileschi's "Judith and Holofernes" . . . it is undeniably shocking in larger-than-life and living (or dying) color.
This is the one I use: Panorama 32, version 1.31. You may want to use a more recent version (if one is available), but I find that this one suits me just fine. It's so easy to install. If I can install it and figure it out, then anybody can (I'm not technically inclined, at all).
. . . . the Prophet-General says for y'all to take this argument over there to the left somewhere and leave the artists alone . . . . ;-D
LOL! That's what I was thinking, only I didn't have the guts to say it.
An exhibition of 65 paintings at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, December 7, 2002 - February 9, 2003.
Here's the link:
Winslow Homer exhibit in San Francisco
Other venues:
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
April 19-June 29, 2003
There is precedent for a "studio" handling things this way -- for example, it's widely accepted that Leonardo da Vinci as a young student painted subordinate figures and backgrounds for his master Andrea Verrochio. Most notably, the left-hand kneeling angel in this "Baptism of Christ":
But somehow Kinkade doesn't rise to that level . . . ;-)
(LOL)
Talk about a microcosm of a particular artist's work! They do say that an expert knows more and more about less and less, but this is pretty funny! Imagine specializing in the fly-fishing watercolors of Winslow Homer!
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