First Set:
The Wedding Dance by Pieter Brueghel, the Elder
Night Hawks by Edward Hopper
Second Set:
American Gothic by Grant Wood
The Kiss by Gustav Klimt
Third Set:
Nude on a Red Background by Fernand Léger
Gypsy Woman with Baby by Amedeo Modigliani
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Dude, you are telling a love story.
The first set is a lesson in social psychology. It represents community at two ends of the curve. It is also how people "hook up." Both works were created before online dating.
The second set I would title "adoration." One attempts to gain it through an ideal image. The other is the rapture of union. I'm taken by where the eyes of the subjects are fixed. The first allows the male to address the viewer as the woman looks away. In the second, the male is lost in the moment, as the woman's face tells the love story. Both are chapter two in the story of boy meets girl.
The third is attatchment. The child is in union with the caregiver. If these were 21st century works, you could also see a father as the attachement figure. It is chapter three of the love story.
This is fun. man!
Oops! I also noticed in the third set the glow of the model in the second painting. It is illuminating from the self of the mother. It is looks almost organic. Maybe even freely given.
In the first, the mother is transposed against a warm background. Resentful? Numb? I'm not sure. Perhaps oppressive demands are being illustrated in the first.
Okay. I'm done.
-Aaron
Dear Aaron,
It is astonishing how, as our friendship lengthens, I find out how much alike we are. There is apparently no measuring the quixotic way that you move through the world and that is just like looking in a mirror. Thank you for being a rich part of my life!
As expected, I had to look up "quixotic." We may think alike, but you will always have much cooler hair than I can ever dream of obtaining.
When can we expect your thoughts on the art?
Also, are you in town next Tuesday morning? I'm hosting a consult at my place at 10am. I'd love to show off the man responsible for my career.
Be Well,
Aaron
If I might add to the already spot-on comments posted... For me these works represent, also, a feeling of introvert versus extrovert. That is, for us shy souls, hooking up in a scene such as in Night Hawks, admiring and respecting our partners in a more refined way as in American Gothic, or proudly depicting ourselves as caretaker but modestly so as in Gypsy Woman with Baby is comfortable for us. Most days the quiet paths may feel like home. On the other hand, introverts can just as easily “turn it on,” whooping it up to take part in a wedding celebration, passionately displaying our affection, or experiencing our roles in the rawest sense.
We humans are complex creatures. And what fun it is to compare and contrast even within ourselves.
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