as it turned out, the college card hours were over nearly an hour before i got there. so i didn't get the ticket and had to think of somewhere else to go. i wondered along huntington ave until i hit the mfa. at least i wouldn't have to pay for entrance. they had an exhibition of art nouveau jewelery with japanese motif going on. the jewelers actually took the pain to line thin thin thin edges with tiny tiny diamonds. wonderful stuff. my phone camera didn't work too well under that lighting. so you have to take my word for it.
then i went through egyptian and roman sections of the museum and spent the rest of my time in the early 20th century room. it's a very small room, but contains a few nice pieces. they have a good mary cassatt (in the loge), a good renoir (the dance), degas' little ballerina in bronze and some other stuff. for the first time i realised that the ballerina is not only standing chest up, but also her hip is swung slightly to the left. which makes the entire impression a whole lot different. weird i never saw it before. another thing i saw was that three of the native women in the gauguin are making eyes at the viewer, in a rather seductive way. exotic women in a seducing act, this definitely added value to the painting in his time! it is also weird that i haven't noticed that before. anyways, i wonder why i connect so much with these 20th century enruopeans. if only i had a time machine!
one last thing worth mentioning, when i was on my way out, i saw this piece of work (you can read about it in the caption at the end):
isn't it wonderful. all the bottles are contained in a mirror glass chest made of unidirectional mirror. so you can see what's going on inside, but light can't go in. the pattern thus formed on the bottles are quite magnificent!
2 comments:
wow. the concept actually translated to something that looks good. pretty modern art.
I was attracted by the same thing too and too a similar picture (the glass bottles).
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