Life imitates Art July 28, 2010
Posted by t-maker in Painting, Photos.Tags: 366:8 The Meeting, art, Flickr, life, Oscar Wilde, Still Life With Roses, The Decay Of Lying, Wilde
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CYRIL. Well, before you read it to me, I should like to ask you a question. What do you mean by saying that life, ‘poor, probable,uninteresting human life,’ will try to reproduce the marvels of art? I can quite understand your objection to art being treated as a mirror. You think it would reduce genius to the position of a cracked looking – glass. But you don’t mean to say that you seriously believe that Life imitates Art, that Life in fact is the mirror, and Art the reality?
VIVIAN. Certainly I do. Paradox though it may seem – and paradoxes are always dangerous things – it is none the less true that Life imitates art far more than Art imitates life….
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life, and I feel sure that if you think seriously about it you will find that it is true. Life holds the mirror up to Art, and either reproduces some strange type imagined by painter or sculptor, or realises in fact what has been dreamed in fiction…
(Oscar Wilde, The Decay Of Lying: An Observation)
Heart’s desire June 18, 2009
Posted by t-maker in History, Painting, Quotes.Tags: Bertrand Russell, desire, George Bernard Shaw, heart, Heraclitus, life, Pino Daeni, soul
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Heraclitus, quoted by Bertrand Russell (in “History of Western Philosophy”), was very serious saying that
“It is hard to fight with one’s heart’s desire. Whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of soul. … It is not good for men to get all that they wish to get.”
George Bernard Shaw (in “Man and Superman” (1903), act 4) responded that
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
P.S. Visit Pino Daeni’s Art Collections (see also Progressive Art Media – Pino Page, Pino – Pino Daeni. LiveInternet)
‘Moonrise over the Sea’ (1822) by Caspar David Friedrich April 9, 2009
Posted by t-maker in History, Miscellaneous, Painting.Tags: art, Caspar David Friedrich, century, epoch, German, landscape, moonrise, Moonrise over the Sea, paint, painter, Painting, Romantic, sea, way of spending time
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Nobody definitely would call Caspar David Friedrich the greatest painter of all times, or even of his 19th-century. It is definite, as well, that any criterion of greatness does not exist, except one’s personal taste and preferences.
I would call Caspar David Friedrich one of my favourite painters. And his ‘Moonrise over the Sea‘ is one of my favorite paintings, maybe the most loved one. It depicts a small group of people on the coast of cold northern sea late in the evening. You can imagine that these women and a man are close relatives or friends spending their free time together. It is too dark to read, to late to speak. They left their home and made their way towards the sea. They made themselves comfortable on a boulder and watched the sea, the moon over the sea, sailing ships. Quiet picture of non-existent epoch and old-fashioned way of spending time.
Links
1. Caspar David Friedrich – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2. Category:Oil paintings by Caspar David Friedrich – Wikimedia Commons
3. File:Caspar David Friedrich 031.jpg – Wikimedia Commons
4. NGA – Caspar David Friedrich, Moonrise over the Sea, 1822
5. NGA – Spirit of an Age: Introduction
6. Friedrich, Caspar David: Mondaufgang am Meer [2] – Zeno.org
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