Jess, If All the World Were Paper and All the Water Sink
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Jess (Burgess Franklin Collins), If All the World Were Paper and All the Water Sink, 1962, oil on canvas, 96.5 x 142.2 cm (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco), © estate of the artist, a Seeing America video
Speakers: Emma Acker Associate Curator of American Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Beth Harris
That’s my lovely uncle. For real. I love you, Jess. I met you once when I was 4. I was at your memorial (invited. Thank you, Christopher W.). It was beautiful. ❤️ your (real) niece.
Wow, I find the painting itself very inviting and attractive and enjoy the style, but then realizing the subject is quite a shock ... an odd menagerie of images, but one well worth pondering. Thank you.
It's so nice to be able to spend time in my happy place and watch these videos with the careful consideration they deserve (rather than focusing on the soul-sucking rushing I need to do throughout the week, lol). 😌
The texture immediately got me on this one... I think I used to have low-grade, early stage pica or something because I'm one of the few people left on earth who enjoys the texture of Smarties and consistently have urges when I look at textured works.
Anywho, I love the whispy effect of it. It's completely unique to me - can't compare it to anything I've seen thus far.
My poor mom would've only been 10 if Jess' predictions were right... Thank goodness we went the other way.
I would've loved to hear the end of Emma's comment about Jess' name change, lol.
I thought about poker rather than tarot - the little colored blocks near him remind me of chips. Maybe the house isn't always winning this time...
So interesting. I really like this piece.
What a wonderful painting and examination! Studying HD, studying Duncan, I wanted to know, "What was Jess doing?" Thank you for this glimpse.
Great video! So much detail in this work.
To me, the shadow figure looks like Jess' partner, the poet Robert Duncan
Thank you for this beautiful analysis
So interesting - poignant in 2022 - thank you ~
The colored cubes remind me of over-head views of bare foundations after the bombs were dropped. Is it just me, or are all the children girls? I am not sure about this either, but the red colors in the sky look like angels.
Very interesting! I also noticed that the owl's right wing has some shades of red, could it be wounded? Some kind of wounded knowledge?
On the back of the cards/tarots there is a stylized image of an hourglass, I think this could mean something
yeah, i noticed that red .. he could have easily turned the owl's wings into a full-blown daisy and the owl's body into a fish, maybe too much mixed metaphors tho ..
@@allertonoff4 yeah, I think he purposely wanted to confuse the spectator... but, hey, colours matter
'The owl of Minerva takes its flight only when the shades of night are gathering.'--Hegel. Not sure why is interlocked with the parrot though, could be some escher esque play of opposites.
I made a beautiful MC Esher drawing (my own) in like 3rd grade. Thank you for reminding me of Escher
The artist worked on plutonium and was too scared where science was going so he paints, that's pretty fucking cool
A+ post / intriguing avians .. i envisage a right pareidolia comments-fest ;j