Monday, June 12, 2006
It's raining hard
...so I'm at home, catching up on news and yapping with poets. I love rainy days. I just spent some time over at wood s lot, a gorgeous, mind-widening site that has long been a favourite of mine. Today's post has certain relevance to an ongoing conversation that has been lighting up my inbox of late. Even on this rainy day, everything is incredibly bright.
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Thanks for this, B. I've linked to both you and wood s lot.
Thanks Berlynn. wood s lot consistently puts forward high quality, high impact posts. Great stuff. I spend a lot of time there, but it's always time well spent.
One of the largest canvases Schiele attempted was Conversion. This is a bit about it by Jane Kallir:
“In the 1913 painting Resurrection, [Schiele] showed himself (or a stylized surrogate) struggling toward consciousness within the prisonlike confines of a tomb that alluded not only to the artist’s literal incarceration, but to his metaphorical self-containment. Contact with the outer world—albeit of an ambivalent sort—was made in two monumental canvases, Conversion, and Encounter, both of which proposed to combine a row of disciples with the artist’s obligatory self-image. (Neither picture was ever finished.)”
Tracy, I swear you know more about Schiele than I know about myself. I love listening to you talk about him. Conversion is stunning, even in the little image online. I'd love to see it in person.
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