Yes, isn't it hard to describe one's reactions to a painting like
that? One wants to say that one 'likes' it, but the word seems oddly
out of place. I find myself, as you say, 'seized' by it. It seems so
desolate. It makes me think of certain desolate moments in literature
- Macbeth with his 'Tomorrow and tomorrow' speech, Raskolnikov in his
awful isolation after the murders, King Lear on the heath, ('Mad
world,mad kings mad composition'). It's an image of a world that has
lost its soul, a terrible, terrible world...
That's its effect on me anyway.
DA
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 1:57 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In a message dated 5/14/08 11:55:04 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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> > Well, so far I have been very disappointed in the (non) reactions to
> > my Goya.
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> I liked it a lot. Speaking metaphorically, I was seized by it.
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