I looked at this after ricpic mentioned it. Read a few pages on this. "It came right out of my mind. It was the first painting I ever visualized first and went straight to it from my psychiatric work. Someone else: The barren landscape, the tiny figures seeming so vulnerable, the single plant, the amorphous confused somewhat menacing gray form of the man" yes, yes, YES, I suppose that was startling at the time. Of all the people listed that Tanguy inspired no mention of Dali and that's who this reminds me of most.
Thanks, Lem, and thanks, Chip, for the apposite quotes.
I must say that, to me at least, it's still a startling image. Forget all the pseudo-sophistication we're filled with which immediately cancels out the impact of anything genuinely SCARY by reducing it to "Oh, how phallic" or "That's Oedipal." Let those defenses drop away and LOOK at the thing.....SCARY!
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I looked at this after ricpic mentioned it. Read a few pages on this. "It came right out of my mind. It was the first painting I ever visualized first and went straight to it from my psychiatric work. Someone else: The barren landscape, the tiny figures seeming so vulnerable, the single plant, the amorphous confused somewhat menacing gray form of the man" yes, yes, YES, I suppose that was startling at the time. Of all the people listed that Tanguy inspired no mention of Dali and that's who this reminds me of most.
Thanks, Lem, and thanks, Chip, for the apposite quotes.
I must say that, to me at least, it's still a startling image. Forget all the pseudo-sophistication we're filled with which immediately cancels out the impact of anything genuinely SCARY by reducing it to "Oh, how phallic" or "That's Oedipal." Let those defenses drop away and LOOK at the thing.....SCARY!
Funniest thing about ole Yves, he's a spitting image of what pops into my head when Ritmo pays us a visit.
Rabel said...
Funniest thing about ole Yves, he's a spitting image of what pops into my head when Ritmo pays us a visit.
OMG!!! I thought the same thing!!!
And on the days when the blind eye is being given a rest and a visit merely being considered, there's Arp, (ricpic's other mention).
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