On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 8:34 PM, frank theriault <knarftheria...@gmail.com> wrote:
<snip> > Wonderful shots of the Sistine Chapel. It must have been quite awesome just ~being~ in that space. I recently went to Toronto's Art Gallery of Ontario for the first time since the Frank Gehry re-design and it's absolutely amazing. It's beautifully organized and there is much more art to see. Stood for about 1/2 hour in front of Tom Thompson's ~West Wind~ (an iconic Canadian image), http://g7scans.freehostia.com/thomson_the_west_wind_1917.jpg then noticed they had the small "original" oil-on-wood-panel study that he did in the wilderness. Seeing something of the creative process like that almost took my breath away. The hastily painted study was so raw, and in some ways much more emotional than the much larger canvas, but seeing the two near each other was incredible. I don't mean to take over this thread; I guess my point is that sometimes "getting into" an artistic space can just take over one's being. If one image could affect me like that, I can't imagine what being in the Sistine Chapel would do... Thanks again for those images. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
