Edward Onslow Ford (1852-1901) - The Singer (1889) and Applause (1893), more or less face to face for the first and so far the only time - Tate Britain, Sep 2010
You could look on this one as "arty" or "impressionistic"... but in reality it's just blurred. However, the title pretty much says it all. It's a rare record of the only time Ford's two Egyptian girls were ever seen together. The Tate website has a feature about them that actually states that the two are best viewed as a pair. So what has the Tate done since then? It originally put ONE of them back on display and kept the OTHER locked in the vaults. When they finally took the other one out of the vaults they put them in the same room, but at right angles to each other so they have no meaningful spatial relationship. Seriously? An art gallery that doesn't appreciate spatial relationships?? Where are those people's heads at?
Edward Onslow Ford (1852-1901) - The Singer (1889) and Applause (1893), more or less face to face for the first and so far the only time - Tate Britain, Sep 2010
You could look on this one as "arty" or "impressionistic"... but in reality it's just blurred. However, the title pretty much says it all. It's a rare record of the only time Ford's two Egyptian girls were ever seen together. The Tate website has a feature about them that actually states that the two are best viewed as a pair. So what has the Tate done since then? It originally put ONE of them back on display and kept the OTHER locked in the vaults. When they finally took the other one out of the vaults they put them in the same room, but at right angles to each other so they have no meaningful spatial relationship. Seriously? An art gallery that doesn't appreciate spatial relationships?? Where are those people's heads at?