I've been living in this art assignment for weeks.It's changed my life forever.
I almost married an artist back in the day and my mom is an artist. One of the things that broke my heart in the relationship with the artist is that all of my life I've never experienced what my mom does in front of a painting at a museum. She has an experience of wonder and I don't. I just don't get it.
Until now.
I can't quite put it into words --but I've been brought through the looking glass. This was my whole hope doing this program in school and it's come true.
P.S. Here's one of the paintings of my project:
http://jimberkin.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/folesbergere.jpg
Verdi Cries, one of my all-time favorite songs since I was in junior high:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4pE9-_gL88
4 comments:
You know I was never really moved by art, until I went to Italy and I saw the Sistine Chapel, somehow that just amazed me. And really was an awakening.
Really? That's really cool and I totally know what you mean. Can't imagine you without an inner art connection now --that's such a lot of what I've learned from you is that world just in a different way, maybe than through painting.
Really? What about the relationship broke your heart? I don't understand that part.
I didn't see this until today sorry.
What I meant by that is hard to put into words but it's that I couldn't experience something looking at a painting like I saw other people do. I couldn't enter that world and didn't think I ever would. I feel like I have that now. I got it through reading art criticism which makes sense in retrospect being the avid reader that I am.
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