drumtoo
the old bath
as my parents have begun the long process of paring down their lives, slowing emptying the house i grew up of it's contents, i am struck sometimes with a profound nostalgia. for all the usual trials and tribulations, i had a very happy childhood. i consider myself very lucky, and continue to be grateful for that, and to my dear parents, to this day.
when i was home for this past holiday season, i realized i had better start snapping, to aid my memory when its inevitable failing might kick into high gear. whle i do have a vague recollection that the bathroom was redone when i was a small child, here are the same artifacts that have been hanging in the same place against the same wallpaper in the same bathroom for basically as long as i can practically remember.
as a result of seeing these little plastic prints every day for so many years, i have an ingrained, elemental partiality for edgar degas' work. oddly, i never really heard/read about artistide maillol until today, in researching for this photo.
from a small village in the pyrennes, maillol (1861-1944) was a painter and a sculptor. by turning away from pathos and expression, maillol revolutionized the sculptural field. he created a type of archcitectural beauty, using the body as his only vocabulary to represent such ideas as fertility, youth or death... deeply influenced by gaugin, he invented a type of sculpture whose smooth and rounded shapes recall archaic art forms. maillol introduced a totally modern concept which lifts beauty above reality. (musee maillol)
Degas' mature style is distinguished by conspicuously unfinished passages, even in otherwise tightly rendered paintings. He frequently blamed his eye troubles for his "inability to finish", an explanation that met with some skepticism from colleagues and collectors who reasoned that his pictures "could hardly have been executed by anyone with inadequate vision.".... The meticulous naturalism of his youth gave way to an increasing abstraction of form.... He was a deliberative artist whose works "were prepared, calculated, practiced, developed in stages. (wikipedia)
anyway, as far as the wallpaper, i don't think these colors have been reproduced by humankind in this pattern since.
postscript: mom informs she tried to locate similar pattern about 10 years ago, but to no avail.
the old bath
as my parents have begun the long process of paring down their lives, slowing emptying the house i grew up of it's contents, i am struck sometimes with a profound nostalgia. for all the usual trials and tribulations, i had a very happy childhood. i consider myself very lucky, and continue to be grateful for that, and to my dear parents, to this day.
when i was home for this past holiday season, i realized i had better start snapping, to aid my memory when its inevitable failing might kick into high gear. whle i do have a vague recollection that the bathroom was redone when i was a small child, here are the same artifacts that have been hanging in the same place against the same wallpaper in the same bathroom for basically as long as i can practically remember.
as a result of seeing these little plastic prints every day for so many years, i have an ingrained, elemental partiality for edgar degas' work. oddly, i never really heard/read about artistide maillol until today, in researching for this photo.
from a small village in the pyrennes, maillol (1861-1944) was a painter and a sculptor. by turning away from pathos and expression, maillol revolutionized the sculptural field. he created a type of archcitectural beauty, using the body as his only vocabulary to represent such ideas as fertility, youth or death... deeply influenced by gaugin, he invented a type of sculpture whose smooth and rounded shapes recall archaic art forms. maillol introduced a totally modern concept which lifts beauty above reality. (musee maillol)
Degas' mature style is distinguished by conspicuously unfinished passages, even in otherwise tightly rendered paintings. He frequently blamed his eye troubles for his "inability to finish", an explanation that met with some skepticism from colleagues and collectors who reasoned that his pictures "could hardly have been executed by anyone with inadequate vision.".... The meticulous naturalism of his youth gave way to an increasing abstraction of form.... He was a deliberative artist whose works "were prepared, calculated, practiced, developed in stages. (wikipedia)
anyway, as far as the wallpaper, i don't think these colors have been reproduced by humankind in this pattern since.
postscript: mom informs she tried to locate similar pattern about 10 years ago, but to no avail.