A Passion for Color
The Whitney Museum of American Art is exhibiting Oscar Bluemner: A Passion for Color until February 12. The museum's website states, "Examining Bluemner's evolution from a budding architect to a key innovator in the modernist shift to abstraction, the exhibition surveys the artist's entire oeuvre, from the pictorial, architectural renderings of his early years to the richly symbolic, color-infused landscapes that established his place among the leading artists of his day."
The painting shown here, "Aspiration (Winfield)" (1911, repainted 1916-1917) lifts the gaze with its impression of refracted light. Exhibition curator Barbara Haskell says, "The effect was of looking at nature through a prism."
The Fresnel lens of a lighthouse intensifies light through refraction. A prism breaks it into distinct colors. Both magnify the display of glorious light. So let this be our aspiration: As we enjoy the radiant glory of God, may we reflect it back to Him. May we refract and display His beauty in the world that He has made.
Bob
(image scanned from American Art Review, Sep-Oct 2005)
The painting shown here, "Aspiration (Winfield)" (1911, repainted 1916-1917) lifts the gaze with its impression of refracted light. Exhibition curator Barbara Haskell says, "The effect was of looking at nature through a prism."The Fresnel lens of a lighthouse intensifies light through refraction. A prism breaks it into distinct colors. Both magnify the display of glorious light. So let this be our aspiration: As we enjoy the radiant glory of God, may we reflect it back to Him. May we refract and display His beauty in the world that He has made.
Bob
(image scanned from American Art Review, Sep-Oct 2005)
posted by Joni and Bob at 1:29 PM
1 Comments:
bob, how do you maintain this bouyancy, this total inclusion of everything going on around you and in you? it is so right to do so, and to continually /constantly reflect how it all affects/effects our relationship with God! eternal sunshine of the believing mind!
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