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May 19, 2005
TT: Check back with me tomorrow, though....
Tyler Green, who blogs at Modern Art Notes, is inviting bloggers to write about their favorite painting in America and their favorite American painting (which I suppose could be one and the same).This is, of course, an impossible task, but having just said that it can't be done, I'll do it, subject as always to minute-by-minute changes of mind.
As of the time stamp on this posting, the winners are as follows:
- Favorite American painting: Fairfield Porter's The Mirror, at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. As regular readers of this blog know, my passion for Porter is boundless--his work is my major preoccupation as a collector--and I can think of a half-dozen of his paintings that I might be inclined to put at the top of this list. "The Mirror," though, seems to me a particularly revealing exemplar of Porter's highly individual brand of realism, and one that I don't get to see often enough because it hangs in a Midwestern museum. All the more reason, then, for me to pay a visit to Kansas City this summer. Good jazz, good barbecue, a good museum with my favorite Porter--what's not to like?
- Favorite painting in America: Paul Cézanne's The Garden at Les Lauves, at the Phillips Collection in Washington. I find its uncalculated ambiguity (which extends all the way to the unanswerable question of whether or not Cézanne had finished it at the time of his death) to be infinitely absorbing. I try to pay it a visit every time I'm in Washington, and I'm always disappointed when it's not hanging (which is rarely).
Posted May 19, 2005 1:50 AM
