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Pinacotheca Petri Plancii - Johann Erdmann Hummel, An Interior, 1820
a gallery of paintings by lesser 19th century artists, mainly romantic in tone
07 February 2013 @ 03:16 pm
Johann Erdmann Hummel, An Interior, 1820
All the mirroring of light is interesting (almost in the floor too) but it´s all so formal one gets the impression, this is mainly a study of perspective, light and shadow (maybe it is).
All one sees from looking out the window(s) is yet another barren-looking building, architect´s sketch-like and perfectly symmetrical. Not a tree in sight or is that the interior of a self-service pharmacy?
The two live figures seem oddly absent at ignoring their doubles, the dog may breathe heavily in anticipation of something happening (like life) while the woman, maybe its mistress, surely never breathes at all. I hope, she reads nothing but the Bible, lest she´d get excited, start moving and burst her dress.
The idea of reading standing up isn´t new, then? Bit odd, though. I recall Hemingway insisted on writing that way but I have seldom seen either of it done, in art or Real Life.
All one sees from looking out the window(s) is yet another barren-looking building, architect´s sketch-like and perfectly symmetrical. Not a tree in sight or is that the interior of a self-service pharmacy?
The two live figures seem oddly absent at ignoring their doubles, the dog may breathe heavily in anticipation of something happening (like life) while the woman, maybe its mistress, surely never breathes at all. I hope, she reads nothing but the Bible, lest she´d get excited, start moving and burst her dress.
The idea of reading standing up isn´t new, then? Bit odd, though. I recall Hemingway insisted on writing that way but I have seldom seen either of it done, in art or Real Life.
When I just had the little image, I thought that there was another room through there with another dog in it, but of course there couldn't be. Virginia Woolf was supposed to have written standing, which is doubtless why her works are so unreadable, she was just longing to have an excuse to sit down again - you can even buy a Woolf desk:
http://standupdesks.com/virginia_wo
http://standupdesks.com/virginia_wo
Actually,
I like the small one better it´s more lively as if the light would come from this same sun that refuses to shine today but I trust, is still there.
However, this Q. of position at writing makes me wonder, whether the Mistress of Ms. B. Toklas wrote standing up, too. Surely, wearing her boots, anyway. Who else?
I feel, this calls for another literal list but maybe without smilies, this time round. It´s important to be Earnest and too much comfort will prevent it from happening, maybe we need to turn the creaking club fauteuils in for wooden benches as in Bayreuth. Conversation might take another interesting turn.
I wonder how it follows. A hypothetical Q. for Peg of course who is a fan of the Li-Kan method of half-lying down on a canapé. I believe, James Thurber but also Loriot suggested further possibilities, for instance at multi-tasking while picknicking, etc.
I like the small one better it´s more lively as if the light would come from this same sun that refuses to shine today but I trust, is still there.
However, this Q. of position at writing makes me wonder, whether the Mistress of Ms. B. Toklas wrote standing up, too. Surely, wearing her boots, anyway. Who else?
I feel, this calls for another literal list but maybe without smilies, this time round. It´s important to be Earnest and too much comfort will prevent it from happening, maybe we need to turn the creaking club fauteuils in for wooden benches as in Bayreuth. Conversation might take another interesting turn.
I wonder how it follows. A hypothetical Q. for Peg of course who is a fan of the Li-Kan method of half-lying down on a canapé. I believe, James Thurber but also Loriot suggested further possibilities, for instance at multi-tasking while picknicking, etc.
No, that would be an awful idea, we can't have the members dying - or trying to snatch some sleep - on a bench! They'd simply leave.
