Van Gogh and ---

 

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And from the Asheville Art Museum:

Exhibition on Screen Series | Van Gogh Poets & Lovers

Two hundred years after its opening and a century after acquiring its first Van Gogh works, the National Gallery, London is hosting the UK’s biggest ever Van Gogh exhibition. Van Gogh is not only one of the most beloved artists of all time, but perhaps the most misunderstood.

This film is a chance to reexamine and better understand this iconic artist. Focusing on his unique creative process, Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers explores the artist’s years in the south of France, where he revolutionized his style. Van Gogh became consumed with a passion for storytelling in his art, turning the world around him into vibrant, idealized spaces and symbolic characters.

Poets and lovers filled his imagination; everything he did in the south of France served this new obsession. In part, this is what caused his notorious breakdown, but it didn’t hold back his creativity as he created masterpiece after masterpiece. Explore one of art history’s most pivotal periods in this once-in-a-century show. Made in close collaboration with the National Gallery.

Preview from YouTube above.

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My shots from the show. Apologies to those sitting behind me, I only held up my iPhone for these 4 shots.
 

Well, maybe a couple more which I missed completely. 

The show meant sitting for an hour and a half, not a bad way to spend a hot afternoon. But when you think of all the other movies in much more comfortable seats, with sound systems that wouldn't make it very difficult for me to understand the narrators...the cost was not quite worth it.

Did I learn anything new about Van Gogh? Maybe his love of yellow? Nah, I already knew that.

I observed his most prolific period was from the hospital in 1889  (the year before his suicide.) Or were these just the gallery's collection for that show? It was thorough and thoughtfully narrated by art experts. 

But films of paintings don't really do justice to the art. I've taken too many art history courses with slides and overheads to not have that opinion. So my visit to the Art Museum in Asheville was best enjoyed by seeing art on the wall.

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Today’s quote:

Haters, like parrots,

talk much

but cannot fly. Dreamers,

like eagles, say nothing but

conquer the skies.

 Matshona Dhliwayo

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Old photos:

Myself at 3 and maternal grandmother Mozelle Munhall, Dallas TX. She was a seamstress and made my lovely tan wool outfit with dark brown velvet trim at the collar.

Big D, little d

Big D, known as Dallas, Texas to some of us, has changed over the years.  It's where I was born, but left when I was three and I've seldom returned, so don't really know much about it.

Dallas, taken in 1942 by Arthur Rothstein.

A more recent photo of downtown Dallas

Stills taken from home movies

Here are the "big and little" that are for this week's Sepia Saturday prompt.  The Little "d" in my title refers to the small environment of Dallas with which I was familiar.

Mother-Daughter Dresses made by Mataley Rogers, (my mother) for Easter in 1945 I think.  When I was growing up in the 50s it was still ok to wear dresses that came from Simplicty Patterns.  I think these must have as well.  Mother had a Singer sewing machine.  And my grandmother Mozelle Munhall (her mother) was a professional seamstress. 

I also remember keeping some of those patterns for years, thinking I'd make another dress/skirt/suit with the same pattern...but I never did.  I think, as a young mother myself in the 60s I made a few things for my mother.  One of my last ventures was a pair of sports coats for my 2 sons for Christmas one year...polyester was the big rave by the 70s.  I even had a mini-dress which  I sewed for myself.  I still have my own Sears sewing machine.

Enough reminiscing, which SS seems to trigger in my life easily.  I invite you to to over and see some other collections shared with Sepia Saturday this week. (Click here then go to bottom of page for names of more links.)

Our tour of the world's photographic archives has become a newsworthy event: this week on Sepia Saturday our theme image is being reported on the radio. To be precise it is on Finnish Radio - or rather Finnish Radio is on it. This 1937 photograph from the archives of the Finnish Radio Company shows engineers on the roof of an outside broadcast van. For those looking for a theme there is radio, broadcasting, roofs or people doing unusual things on motor vehicles. You might also like to run with the little and large comparison suggested by the two vehicles alongside each other.