Mansion 1
There are some interesting windows here, but when you look at the architecture you have to wonder, what were they thinking when they designed this building? I used to say that in the old days when they couldn’t improve a product, they applied filigree. That was particularly the case in buildings, and it seems to continue in modern times. Rather than decorative features here they went with more complications.
I won’t even try to count the different styles of windows.
Yep, that what the rich and famous in our country do. They tell their architect to make it more expensive, and they did.
Here are a couple of views of windows from the inside.
Lots of nooks and corners inside and outside. Ah, the life of the upper crust.
Now for a different kind of fame – old masters.
Windows in Art
This week I will continue my little series of showing windows in art by famous artists. Again a painting by Vincent Van Gogh. A much simpler space than those shown in the photos above.
The Art Institute of Chicago describes this painting thus:
“Vincent van Gogh so highly esteemed his bedroom painting that he made three distinct versions: the first, now in the collection of the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; the second, belonging to the Art Institute of Chicago, painted a year later on the same scale and almost identical; and a third, smaller canvas in the collection of the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, which he made as a gift for his mother and sister. Van Gogh conceived the first Bedroom in October 1888, a month after he moved into his “Yellow House” in Arles, France. This moment marked the first time the artist had a home of his own, and he had immediately and enthusiastically set about decorating, painting a suite of canvases to fill the walls. Completely exhausted from the effort, he spent two-and-a-half days in bed and was then inspired to create a painting of his bedroom. As he wrote to his brother Theo, “It amused me enormously doing this bare interior. With a simplicity à la Seurat. In flat tints, but coarsely brushed in full impasto, the walls pale lilac, the floor in a broken and faded red, the chairs and the bed chrome yellow, the pillows and the sheet very pale lemon green, the bedspread blood-red, the dressing-table orange, the washbasin blue, the window green. I had wished to express utter repose with all these very different tones.” Although the picture symbolized relaxation and peace to the artist, to our eyes the canvas seems to teem with nervous energy, instability, and turmoil, an effect heightened by the sharply receding perspective.“
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