Comments on: If I was to heist a gallery… http://piereth.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/if-i-was-to-heist-a-gallery/ when do you learn that what you have is a blessing? Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:21:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: piereth http://piereth.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/if-i-was-to-heist-a-gallery/#comment-457 piereth Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:47:34 +0000 http://piereth.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/if-i-was-to-heist-a-gallery/#comment-457 Hey Truce, I'll have to see what you've done here, what's a pingback? I'm so ignorant! You're right of course, National Gallery of Scotland, downstairs. It's tiny in the flesh, only about 2 foot square. mamatried, I'm really glad you like it - Truce and I were at college together and we spent some time lurking in the various galleries of our college city.... this one really caught my attention. Seeing the paint on the canvas is so much more effective - you get the 3-D quality and much more of the artist's intention... I'll check out that painting you mention - sounds wonderful! Hey Truce, I’ll have to see what you’ve done here, what’s a pingback? I’m so ignorant! You’re right of course, National Gallery of Scotland, downstairs. It’s tiny in the flesh, only about 2 foot square.
mamatried, I’m really glad you like it - Truce and I were at college together and we spent some time lurking in the various galleries of our college city…. this one really caught my attention. Seeing the paint on the canvas is so much more effective - you get the 3-D quality and much more of the artist’s intention… I’ll check out that painting you mention - sounds wonderful!

]]> By: mamatried http://piereth.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/if-i-was-to-heist-a-gallery/#comment-455 mamatried Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:47:19 +0000 http://piereth.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/if-i-was-to-heist-a-gallery/#comment-455 I absolutely love the painting! I also know that some of my favorites became so after seeing the real thing. One of them is the 'Old Man & Guitar' which hangs in the Art Institute of Chicago. It is this enormous painting and so beautiful and I like the reproductions but they don't match the intensity of the original :) I absolutely love the painting! I also know that some of my favorites became so after seeing the real thing. One of them is the ‘Old Man & Guitar’ which hangs in the Art Institute of Chicago. It is this enormous painting and so beautiful and I like the reproductions but they don’t match the intensity of the original :)

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]]> By: truce http://piereth.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/if-i-was-to-heist-a-gallery/#comment-453 truce Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:35:10 +0000 http://piereth.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/if-i-was-to-heist-a-gallery/#comment-453 I've seen this in the 'paint' as it were, but I can't remember where - it was definitely in a downstairs room, at the foot of a flight of stairs I think. Is it in Edinburgh? I, too, remember its other-worldly beauty with pleasure. I'm going to try and figure out how to link to your post and do my own "What I would steal"... I’ve seen this in the ‘paint’ as it were, but I can’t remember where - it was definitely in a downstairs room, at the foot of a flight of stairs I think. Is it in Edinburgh?

I, too, remember its other-worldly beauty with pleasure.

I’m going to try and figure out how to link to your post and do my own “What I would steal”…

]]> By: piereth http://piereth.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/if-i-was-to-heist-a-gallery/#comment-451 piereth Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:02:54 +0000 http://piereth.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/if-i-was-to-heist-a-gallery/#comment-451 Jenny, it's called 'St Bride' and it's by John Duncan, a Scottish artist working around the start of the 20th Century. He wa something of a mystic, but deals in Christian iconography as you see- My thought was always, there's a little girl, saying her prayers, and the angels carry her to God over the sea... strange, but I love it. I know it can be seen as sad but the colours, and the care on the angels' faces, makes this a very happy picture for me. It's saturated with goodness. On the original, which I've had the privilege of seeing, the angels are outlined in red paint - very symbolic. Jenny, it’s called ‘St Bride’ and it’s by John Duncan, a Scottish artist working around the start of the 20th Century.

He wa something of a mystic, but deals in Christian iconography as you see- My thought was always, there’s a little girl, saying her prayers, and the angels carry her to God over the sea… strange, but I love it. I know it can be seen as sad but the colours, and the care on the angels’ faces, makes this a very happy picture for me. It’s saturated with goodness.

On the original, which I’ve had the privilege of seeing, the angels are outlined in red paint - very symbolic.

]]> By: Jenny http://piereth.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/if-i-was-to-heist-a-gallery/#comment-450 Jenny Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:19:31 +0000 http://piereth.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/if-i-was-to-heist-a-gallery/#comment-450 Interesting ... kind of sad, but comforting in a way. Who's the artist? Interesting … kind of sad, but comforting in a way. Who’s the artist?

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