2004.12.15 11:21
Re: where the Barnes might move to
The proposed reenactment of the Barnes Foundation is largely being done to not further upset the strict Barnes Foundation Charter, which states the art collection must hang in perpetuity as Barnes hung the art.
Barnes made all his money in pharmacology.
2 January 1872 Albert Barnes born in Kensington, a working-class Philadelphia neighborhood; 1466 Cook Street (now Wilt Street).
24 July 1951 Albert Barnes died in an automobile accident at age 78.
24-25 July 326 Helena Augusta dies at Naples.
24-25 July 2003 Marcus Ormerod and Howard Ray Lawrence issue a 'law of silence'.
just a nice coincidence
Just located 1466 Wilt Street at mapquest--it's about a half mile southeast of where I was baptized, and about three-quarters of a mile east-northeast of where St. John Neumann is lying under an altar.
Wonder where the auto accident happened.
I think I like Barnes' Matisse collection best of all.
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2004.12.16 11:36
Fantasy Architecture?....
The subject is fantasy, and fantasy, more or less by definition, does not come with restrictions. Even so, it is 'blurring something familiar with a vision' that was addressed, and the Princeton images indeed do that. The notion that fantasies are not nessessarily dark or cautionary, nor necessarily of the future was also added before the images were presented.
fantasy 2 : imagination or fancy, esp : the free play of creative imagination as it affects perception and productivity usually as expressed in an art form or as elicited by projective techniques of formal psychology
The title Art That is Otto and Einstein at Princeton 5 March 2000 harbors 'clues'--the fantasy is immediately obvious, but don't forget the layer of symmetry (Otto) and of relativity (Einstein), plus the notion of two visions joined.
Piranesi's Ichnographia Campus Martius is not really about fantasy, rather it is a reenactment of ancient Rome's history delineated via ancient Rome's architecture. The plans with their Latin labels within the large plan are all texts that together deliver the history of the city of Rome. Piranesi did a fantastic job of making a history lesson appear as fantasy.
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2004.12.16 12:34
the best question is what does criticism not want 2 or cannot c today
manifest that and you'll likely be several years ahead of everyone (who are most likely playing follow the spoon feeding leader)
2004.12.16 12:47
Re: Who is the greatest figurative painter alive?
observing critic's demands is the same as following the spoon feeding leader
if critics saw better they'd be artists then
2004.12.16 13:01
Ichnographia Romaphilia
Ichnographia Romaphilia
by John the Baptist Piranesi, Julian Abele, and James Stirling
presented throughout
LEAVING OBSCURITY BEHIND
The 2005 Horace Trumbauer Architecture Fan Club Convention
28 December 2004 - 17 January 2006
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2004.12.16 13:56
Re: Ichnographia Romaphilia
While working with Piranesi the discussion is often enlightening.
"So why exactly did you produce two versions of the Ichnographia Campi Martii and keep everyone none the wiser?"
"Overall, I just wanted to see who would find the two versions first. They were found, eventually (after more than two hundred years, but it's embarrassing for all the Piranesi "scholars" because it wasn't one of them."
"Why do you think the so-called scholars failed? Why did they not see what was always right in front of them?
"Simply put, they never reenacted the source."
"Kahn reenacted the source, and he didn't see the two versions."
"Well, I'd say Kahn was busy manifesting new versions of his own."
"Perhaps it's just plain destiny that Philadelphia itself reenacts the source."
"You know, I love you guys like brothers."
"That's fine as long as you realize that we're all independent as well."
"Ha, tell that to Romulus and Remus."
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2004.12.17 18:58
afternoon field trip
Took some pictures of the Youth Study Center on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, future site of the Barnes Foundation.
Then crossed the Parkway to the future site of the Alexander Calder Museum, where about a dozen different Calder sculptures--'stabiles'--are scattered on the present park lawn.
Last year, when I went to see the smaller, prior exhibit, I mentioned here that I really like the 'virtual architecture' that Calder's stabiles evoke, and the many new pieces continue to inspire. I now have this desire to make virtual stabiles via 3d cad. In any case, seeing the exhibit up close (as opposed to just driving by in a car) is well worth the trip.
Then I went to the Free Library (initially just to get a particular book) and I remembered that the long library of Briar Hill is actually part of the Free Library's Rare Book Department, so I went to take a look at it. Not only is the room completely paneled in the Georgian style with light brown oak(?) with lots of knots showing, but all of William Elkins' books and the original library furniture are there as well. I didn't have time to take pictures, but the librarian definitely wants me to come back. The construction documents for Briar Hill (Trumbauer, 1929) are also in the Rare Book Department collection, and I can take pictures of them as well.
Took pictures of soon to be quondam building, visited museum exhibit without the museum building there yet, entered room that moved from inside one Trumbauer building to inside another Trumbauer building. Where do I get my best ideas?
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