In Los Angeles while going to art school in 46'- 49, I managed to see Sculptor Simon Rodia built his Watts tower one bucket of cement and a trowel at a time up and down his steel structure a few times.Years later I learned of Antoni Gaudi , and wondered if Sam Rodia ever new of gaudi's work from fotos,because there some similarities on a much smaller scale. Gaudi became a sculptor whose work I had to see some day. That day came in 93'0r 94' when our visit through Spain finally ended in Barcelona. I was surprised that construction was still going on, but some of the towers were available for climbing, so we did. The circular stairway was a tight squeeze for two bodies passing each other up and down. On our first climb, the tower was very crowded, but after waiting a while found myself the only one on top. The steps were so precise that the sound of my shoes were making sounded like i was tap dancing. It so impressed me that I went up for the third time just to enjoy my new found talent.
Now I wonder what Derek thinks of his work. For me , he was a genius equal to the best of them. mando On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Derek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of the > things I find so fascinating about Goya is the way he leaves > you hanging in a disturbing state of indecision. Is the head of that > character on the right a skull, or is it just an emaciated head that > looks very skull-like? Imagine trying to talk sensibly about this work > in terms of notions like beauty, harmony,elegance, grace, etc (a > definition of art I read not long ago from a leading analytic > aesthetician...) > > http://picasaweb.google.com/derekalla/Images2?authkey=hkLQ1OpKJWE > > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of > picasaweblogo-en_US.gif] > > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/jpeg which had a name of > email.jpg]
