tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11736181.post114106951743413945..comments2023-03-30T07:32:48.656-04:00Comments on ART_GiRL: artgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14842252455802113775noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11736181.post-1141080703548046692006-02-27T17:51:00.000-05:002006-02-27T17:51:00.000-05:00pollock's was the most dramatic example of this fo...pollock's was the most dramatic example of this for me as well - got nothing out of seeing photos of his paintings - but seeing the actual work was totally different...<BR/><BR/>the others that this was opretty dramatic was some of o'keefe's flowers which are BIG and some of the textures in van gogh's....i mean, those i liked even from the photos in the book - but in person were better stillMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01617786206678927288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11736181.post-1141075456255300342006-02-27T16:24:00.000-05:002006-02-27T16:24:00.000-05:00actually i am always shocked at the scale of thing...actually i am always shocked at the scale of things. especially the jackson pollock's i saw. they are enormous and there is so much texture you will never see in a photo. the rothko's were great too.<BR/><BR/>too cold for the sculpture garden but nevertheless beautiful.artgirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14842252455802113775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11736181.post-1141074570596362092006-02-27T16:09:00.000-05:002006-02-27T16:09:00.000-05:00i visited moma once. i esp. liked the sculpture ga...i visited moma once. i esp. liked the sculpture garden. sonny rollins (a jazz sax great) played a solo concert there which must have been unreal.<BR/><BR/> and it is always so cool to actually see paintings in real life that i saw in books. i always get that feeling in any art museum. to an artist like yourself, it probably sounds stupid, but it is a revelation for me to see the actual painting - brush strokes, actual scale, etc... as opposed to a picture in a book. moma is also where i bought my screwdriver which i use to this day - it was somehow related to their design area or something...Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01617786206678927288noreply@blogger.com