Everyone wanted to know how Helen Keller perceived colour.
Some of this knowledge was prurient; some was strictly informative - there is no doubt that it palpated with fascination.
When I read Joseph P Lash's magisterial biography - and how he used interviews with Nella Braddy Henney [the writer of Annie Sullivan's biography] - I was particularly captured by the way she described pink.
Helen had a very beloved little sister Mildred - and that was how she was able to observe the warmth and tenor of "a baby's cheek"
and thus call it pink.
Now of course when a baby cries it can grow red and sometimes it grows puckled.
Robin: I too used an artist. In my case it was Pablo Picasso.
The Winter Masterpieces have celebrated Picasso. Many works came from the Pompidou [France] to the National Gallery of Victoria [Australia] - and many collective works were also used from private and government people.
I am up to the section CUBISM SETTLES DOWN [after the First World War and into the 1920s and 1930s - so Picasso being in his early and mid-career; along with his friends like Juan Gris; Marie-Therese Walter; Georges Braques] and learning all about the great influences.
Ah - the connection between genius and intentionality!
I have seen the afterlife of Van Gogh in clothing and in fashion - especially STARRY STARRY NIGHT.
And it would be natural to extend to homeware furnishings - for example curtains; comforters; pillows; fitted sheets; shelving - to take only someone's bedroom. Even change mats and white noise machines and, well, PINK NOISE machines.
The craft aspect of Picasso interested me a lot. He was the first artist I know that embraced periodicity.
Monet and the Impressionists [remember van Gogh is a POST-impressionist - like Paul Cezanne] were much more "place" people than "time" or "in their time" people.
[and even there I detect exceptions in their practices - for example some moments in Monet's Garden which I experienced about or over 10 years ago].
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Unintentional genius.
Rusty Ring: Van Gogh's bedroom
https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2022/09/ww-van-goghs-bedroom.html
Happy WW!
Robin
Rusty Ring: Reflections of an Old-Timey Hermit
Everyone wanted to know how Helen Keller perceived colour.
Some of this knowledge was prurient; some was strictly informative - there is no doubt that it palpated with fascination.
When I read Joseph P Lash's magisterial biography - and how he used interviews with Nella Braddy Henney [the writer of Annie Sullivan's biography] - I was particularly captured by the way she described pink.
Helen had a very beloved little sister Mildred - and that was how she was able to observe the warmth and tenor of "a baby's cheek"
and thus call it pink.
Now of course when a baby cries it can grow red and sometimes it grows puckled.
Robin: I too used an artist. In my case it was Pablo Picasso.
The Winter Masterpieces have celebrated Picasso. Many works came from the Pompidou [France] to the National Gallery of Victoria [Australia] - and many collective works were also used from private and government people.
I am up to the section CUBISM SETTLES DOWN [after the First World War and into the 1920s and 1930s - so Picasso being in his early and mid-career; along with his friends like Juan Gris; Marie-Therese Walter; Georges Braques] and learning all about the great influences.
Ah - the connection between genius and intentionality!
I have seen the afterlife of Van Gogh in clothing and in fashion - especially STARRY STARRY NIGHT.
And it would be natural to extend to homeware furnishings - for example curtains; comforters; pillows; fitted sheets; shelving - to take only someone's bedroom. Even change mats and white noise machines and, well, PINK NOISE machines.
The craft aspect of Picasso interested me a lot. He was the first artist I know that embraced periodicity.
Monet and the Impressionists [remember van Gogh is a POST-impressionist - like Paul Cezanne] were much more "place" people than "time" or "in their time" people.
[and even there I detect exceptions in their practices - for example some moments in Monet's Garden which I experienced about or over 10 years ago].
That's a cute rhyme, i'll have to remember it!
Mimi:
Oh, yes
"Days like summer; nights like fall".
I remember November nights in particular being SHORT and COLD.
September and October - not necessarily so harsh - not before Hallowe'en.
And I imagine the fall-like night causing conflict.
We are coming up to the Equinox.
Something else I remember encoded in song is HOT SUMMER NIGHTS by a band called Night.
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