One is the ever-increasing damage done to Venice's old buildings, paintings, frescoes, & sculptures by polluted air.
Buildings, paintings, and sculpture may survive longer than specific plants, but the constant cyclical growth and change in plants provide a continuous time dimension that static structures and sculpture can never achieve.
Opening when its subject is 40 and a rising authority on aesthetics, Volume 2 of this vast biography charts Ruskin's unraveling from passionate cataloger (rocks, plants, buildings, paintings, clouds) to tragic obsessive (irrigation, drainage, running water, little girls).
Opening when its subject is 40 and a rising authority on aesthetics, Volume II of this vast biography charts Ruskins unraveling from passionate cataloger (rocks, plants, buildings, paintings, clouds) to tragic obsessive (irrigation, drainage, running water, little girls).
Opening when its subject is 40 and a rising authority on aesthetics, Volume II of this vast biography charts Ruskin's unraveling from passionate cataloger (rocks, plants, buildings, paintings, clouds) to tragic obsessive (irrigation, drainage, running water, little girls).
Their social classes, political powers, oaths, buildings, paintings, music etc. were not something extraneous to the powers they summoned, spoke of, or revered in their day-to-day actions.
Around the building were paintings by Andy Warhol and sculpture by Jeff Koons, along with flat files filled with hundreds of precious drawings and works on paper.
If you can overlook the limitations of the Molloy College Art Gallery, a hallway in an administrative building where paintings are occasionally hung, there is a terrific selection of works in "Words Become Pictures".
This is why the process of building the paintings from abstractions is important.
They live the way buildings and paintings live, unchanging and forever.
