Re: plyboy@teleport.com (Jim Spiri)
Bruce McCaughey (dcav@unixg.ubc.ca)
Mon, 6 Nov 1995 09:51:01 -0800
Dear Jim
In the early 70s when I was in college I took a introductory course
in arts history and one of the paintings that we looked at was, as I
recall, called shipwreck. It was significant because of the triangular
composition used by the artist as well as style of figure painting. We
spent sometime studying this painting from the Jenson art history book.
The only example I had of the painting was an 80 by 50mm black and white
screen print . Well, that summer I had the opportunity to travel to Paris
and visit the Louver. As I walked through the gallery I came upon this
painting that we had studied just a few months earlier. That image that was
only 80mm by 50 mm now became real and also turned out to be 8 meters by 5
meters in full colour with brush strokes. That discovery has made me very
aware that what you see in books and slides is not the real painting. At
the same time if we had not spent so much time looking at the book's image
the real image would not have been so significant to me. I believe that by
supplying slides for teaching it will not harm but help students to
appreciate alt. photography. It can open doors that students would not open
normally and encourage them to search out original art work. Jim I would
like to see your Alt photo work on the net, than I would know if it was
worth a trip to Bend to see originals. Actually it is always worth going to
Bend. Stayed at a little lake outside Sisters this summer and had a great
time.
It is good to break away from technical information sometimes but
I wouldn't want it to become a habit. 8-)
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