[Clayart] museum shops

[Robert Harris]

​One of my favorite painters (little heard of outside of the UK), was
Joseph Wright of Derby. He was a master at single points of light
illuminating a whole scene

Here are two of my favorite paintings of his.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/An_Experiment_on_a_Bird_in_an_Air_Pump_by_Joseph_Wright_of_Derby%2C_1768.jpg

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-iron-forge-viewed-from-without-c1770s-oil-on-canvas-joseph-wright-of-derby.html
​

They are truly pale representations of the originals. (Which are much
larger anyway).

Robert


On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 1:13 PM, Girrell, Bruce <bigirrell at microlinetc.com>
wrote:

> Mel wrote:
> our old paintings are on tv. just look them up....`god almighty i don't
> look at my friends on tv...in the flesh.  the permanent collection is not
> shown any longer.
>
> I have seen many photos of paintings by Rembrandt and his peers online and
> in books. OK. But I never really understood why terms like "grand master"
> are applied to his work until I physically stood in front of some of his
> paintings in the Rijksmuseum. Despite being heavily layered with blacks and
> browns, the paintings seemed to glow with light. It was like there was more
> light coming from the canvas than was being applied by the museum lighting.
> The detail present in the paintings is phenomenal and is difficult to
> appreciate until you see it for yourself. Individual hairs on people,
> threads of clothing, details of belt buckles and decorations on possessions
> of the people in the painting. There is a sense of presence, as though
> you're not looking at a painting but a real scene. And at the size of
> something like Nightwatch, the feeling is even stronger.
>
> I had none of these feelings when seeing the paintings in what I am sure
> are fine photographic replicas. They really didn't have much meaning to me
> until I was six feet in front of them. But standing there, I got it.
> Viscerally, I got it. I understood why this painter and others like him are
> so venerated.
>
> I don't see any way in which a TV screen, an HD computer monitor or even a
> high quality print can do justice to the original work. It just won't work
> until you can feel the size of the work and at the same time you can
> examine the tiniest of brush strokes, the mixing of colors, and all the
> parts that make up the whole of the painting. I don't see how such an
> experience can be conveyed by a simple copy.
>
> Bruce Girrell
>
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