When I was around 11 or so there was a traveling Matisse exhibition at the Smithsonian. There was one cut-out piece that took up the whole wall (can't remember the title) and it was so huge, vibrant, and lively. It was mesmerizing. Really got me into abstract stuff.
When I was studying classical art in my final year at secondary school, I went to Athens for a long weekend. Poked my way through a dimly-lit exhibition with no knowledge of what was inside (signs were in Greek), and right at the end was Diadoumenos, one of my set works. It was MAGICAL.
Just got back from an evening showing of the Silk Roads exhibition at the BM. Mind-boggling, overwhelming, spent two hours there. Go see it if you can. Too many photos I could share. Spooky late night museum vibes as well
Was at a Van Gogh exhibition at the Clark Museum and was just awestruck by "Landscape at Auvers in the Rain". I couldn't stop staring at it. (Embarrassingly, at one point I actually reached out toward it. I swear I wouldn't have *touched* it, but the guard politely asked me to back up a bit, sir.😬)
went to a shaker exhibition at a gallery here a few years and it was soooooo cool
2006. Random visit to MoMA in NYC. We ended up in the Odilon Redon "Beyond the Visible" exhibition & I was struck by his drawing "The Teeth." The depth of the lines around the mouth, like he had dug his fingernails in and clawed the paper, had me spellbound at the implicit frustration/rage.
Tremendous large format cyanotype nature photography exhibition currently on in New Plymouth…
Oh boy, the entire Inverted Utopias exhibition at MFAH om 2004 did that to me, but in particular Soto's "Penetrable in Yellow" stays in my mind. I wrote a lot about it, and I still just absolutely react just seeing pictures of it. I miss it. texaslawchick.livejournal.com/1076420.html
'Grander in conception than any of Martin’s paintings, “On a Clear Day” condenses through multiplication thirty ways of constructing a grid, of expressing happiness, beauty, freedom, and the impossibility of, though yearning for, perfection.' www.krakowwitkingallery.com/exhibition/a...
