tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774681833222176907.post1270370057817387379..comments2024-02-18T06:21:45.375-06:00Comments on ~<i>The Three Prayers</i>: Fiat!Janet Cupohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01037555111680888247noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774681833222176907.post-74652330020235194652012-03-28T11:37:21.980-05:002012-03-28T11:37:21.980-05:00Yeah, but think of all those postcards you stuck i...Yeah, but think of all those postcards you stuck in my copy of <i>A History of the Low Countries</i> and all those Egyptian postcards. It takes a lot of postcards to get one result. And the one of the altarpiece wasn't really a post card, it was a little cut-out of the whole thing. It was intriguing.<br /><br />AMDGJanet Cupohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01037555111680888247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774681833222176907.post-6123111009817775542012-03-28T11:27:54.896-05:002012-03-28T11:27:54.896-05:00Also: I'm amazed that sending somebody a postc...Also: I'm amazed that sending somebody a postcard can produce such rich reflections. I'll have to do it more often!Paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774681833222176907.post-29831243915029661502012-03-28T10:22:05.743-05:002012-03-28T10:22:05.743-05:00Thanks, Paul!Thanks, Paul!Janet Cupohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01037555111680888247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774681833222176907.post-24566079079356548702012-03-28T09:46:35.757-05:002012-03-28T09:46:35.757-05:00Not that this is the "real" meaning - ju...Not that this is the "real" meaning - just one set of additional overlying (or underlying) meanings.Paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774681833222176907.post-74759657479044453632012-03-28T08:54:46.844-05:002012-03-28T08:54:46.844-05:00Pipes and newspapers are also signs of ephemeralit...Pipes and newspapers are also signs of ephemerality/vanity. Dead birds for providence (sparrows at least; not sure about pigeons). Apple for temptation, pomegranate for fertility, grape for redemption, strawberry for joy, sunflower for devotion, lemon for concealed bitterness; a jug of water - purity. And on and on and on.Paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774681833222176907.post-30653790442590418752012-03-27T21:47:44.900-05:002012-03-27T21:47:44.900-05:00Yeah, I always have assumed still-life paintings w...Yeah, I always have assumed still-life paintings were done just because the artist thought the things looked cool, and wanted us to see them in the same way. But I don't know nothin about art.Machttp://lightondarkwater.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774681833222176907.post-72982023230900472562012-03-27T17:52:11.489-05:002012-03-27T17:52:11.489-05:00Dinner? I really don't know for sure, but I wo...Dinner? I really don't know for sure, but I wonder if it wasn't more a matter of technique than anything with meaning, unless, of course, they had a skull and then they were <i>vanitas</i> paintings which were a kind of <i>memento mori</i>. You have all these nifty things, but remember you are going to die.<br /><br />AMDGJanet Cupohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01037555111680888247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774681833222176907.post-83262309442153837012012-03-27T16:55:28.246-05:002012-03-27T16:55:28.246-05:00I have sometimes wondered about how to "read&...I have sometimes wondered about how to "read" those still-life paintings that were all the rage in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (I think). It's a painting of some fruit, a bowl, and a dead bird. What am I supposed to be seeing here?<br /><br />In the van Eyck painting above I particularly like the symbolism of the light striking and filling the vase.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774681833222176907.post-3975094488403045132012-03-27T14:22:34.788-05:002012-03-27T14:22:34.788-05:00I usually have a hard time myself, but I spent a v...I usually have a hard time myself, but I spent a very long time looking at it and reading about it. When I go to a museum, I'm always looking at pictures and thinking, "I know that means something," but I never have enough time when I get home to find out what it is. <br /><br />AMDGJanet Cupohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01037555111680888247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774681833222176907.post-81000729515320189022012-03-27T13:13:25.286-05:002012-03-27T13:13:25.286-05:00Fascinating. This makes me realize that, as much a...Fascinating. This makes me realize that, as much as I love the art of this period, I am not able to "read" it as well as I would like to.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com