Inspired: Art in New Orleans
This painting just got to me when I saw it in New Orleans. The painter is an anonymous artist out of Colorado who just flings paint on a canvas and creates amazing pieces of art.
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Beautiful. It makes me think that our lives are just a sequence of our thoughts, each done in a kind of spontaneity, one building on the other and coming from the other, like the freedom of this painter's brush, love the colors also, and the texture. Like even when we feel we are scratched up and imperfect, together, with all of those scratches, we are perfect. All of what may seem random and disconnected is really a beautiful tapestry.
When I was 13, there was this painting that really spoke to me, put me in this kind of reverence and respect for what was before me. I had spent the day walking around Toledo, Spain for the first time with my mother and grandmother, the city my great-grandmother came from, and where my grandmother spent much of her young life. We walked into this beautiful old church, Iglesia Santo Tomé, built 700 hundred years ago, and at this place inside, like an alter at the end of a wing, tucked safely into a space between two cobblestone walls and the glow of warm light, I saw this painting, "The Burial of Count Orgaz," by El Greco. It was painted in 1586, some 426 years ago, and there I was, beholding this masterpiece, still so alive, alone in the ancient church like a shrine. The image of a man, dead, his friends gathered around and holding his body in their arms, his soul rising, rising, up into this passage way like a birth canal, opening up into the heavens. I stood there and looked at it for a long time. How I fell in love with Toledo that day.
http://derekhough.com/user/photo/2763872/-the-burial-of-count-orgaz-by-el-greco -
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Wow...now this is artwork and not just some paint colors thrown on a canvas. I would love to own this! It's definitely an eye-catcher -
Wow. Amazing. I love Thomas Kinkade work. But I dont own any of the paintings, Would love to some day -
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