{"id":2227,"date":"2020-08-06T03:16:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T03:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2024-06-04T20:33:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T20:33:55","slug":"my-art-is-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/?p=2227","title":{"rendered":"My Art is Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Donde esta le mus\u00e9e?” I ask in my best Frenish (unintentional French-Spanish spicy blend) to the perplexed passer-by. No matter where the destination, I scout out museums. All cities, most towns have them. Even here in Morro Bay is an impressive Natural History Museum, a Skateboard Museum, a Maritime Museum, and a Sewing Museum?! Alas for the last several pandemic months, a sign on all their doors reads, “Closed”.<\/p>\n

While Mother Nature’s immense beauty is always open for exploration and just a step outside, I miss being witness to the artistic expression living in museums. I miss the ‘vibrations of creation’ imperceptibly pulsing through their halls — the grandeur and collective oeuvre assimilating into my soul, as if through osmosis. When a work of art beckons it holds magnetic power,\u00a0urging me to stand in awe and ruminate. I imagine the artists — holding brush to canvas, or fingers to clay, graphite to paper. What’s in their head? What’s happening in their world? Who do they love? Where do they find inspiration? Are they killing their houseplants, too?<\/p>\n

Sometimes I take pictures or purchase museum postcards for further contemplation. And as with rereading a book, or hearing a forgotten melody — the revisitation enhances, reinvents the original interpretation. Looking through these images, I am reminded that while art is timeless, life is not. Yet, Life is<\/em> Art. \u00a0Each one unique — to be inhaled passionately, and exhaled with enduring gratitude.<\/p>\n

The world’s museums may all be closed, but this collection is “Open”. Some of the names of the artists are remembered, some of the titles, some of the locations. The order is random. Please take your time.<\/p>\n

There’s nothing like the real thing, baby, but may you be moved, whilst removed. And in this surplus time at home, maybe even inspired to create your own?!<\/p>\n

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Our R Bar welcome
Crafted from a lamp shade<\/p><\/div>\n

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Bel\u00e9m Cultural Center, Lisbon \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(You know it’s the 60’s)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Loren
“Pase de pecho con la izquierda”
Seville, Spain<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ren\u00e9 Magritte
“The Survivor”<\/p><\/div>\n

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Anthony van Dyck
“Paris”
The Wallace Collection, London<\/p><\/div>\n

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Govaert Flinck
“A Young Archer”
The Wallace Collection, London<\/p><\/div>\n

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di G. Sammartino
“Il Cristo Velato”
Museo Cappella Sanseverro,
Naples, Italy (IN REALITY, THE MARBLE APPEARS TRANSPARENT. SURREAL)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
“St. Jerome writing”
Museo e Galleria Borghese, Rome<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ary Scheffer
“Francesca de Rimini”
The Wallace Collection, London<\/p><\/div>\n

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Anton Mauve
“Horse riding in the Snow”
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam<\/p><\/div>\n

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Dominique-Louis-F\u00e9r\u00e9al Papety
“The Temptation of St. Hilarion”\u00a0
The Wallace Collection, London<\/p><\/div>\n

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John Preble
“Abitian Saint”
Abita Springs, LA<\/p><\/div>\n

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Gerald Laing
“Surfer Girl” \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Lisbon<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mus\u00e9e Granet
Aix-en-Provence (Giocometti?)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Victor Brauner
“Ice Knight”<\/p><\/div>\n

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Eyvind Earle<\/p><\/div>\n

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Vincent Van Gogh
“The Pink Orchard” Edinburgh<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sir James Guthrie
“A Hind’s Daughter” \u00a0Edinburgh<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ren\u00e9 Magritte
Mus\u00e9e Magritte Museum
Brussels<\/p><\/div>\n

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Georges Rouault<\/p><\/div>\n

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Jimmie Durham
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis<\/p><\/div>\n

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Jimmie Durham<\/p><\/div>\n

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Jimmie Durham<\/p><\/div>\n

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F\u00e9lix-Edouard Vallotton
Au Theatre Fran\u00e7ais, troisi\u00e8me balcon<\/p><\/div>\n

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Louis Anquetin
Portrait de Paul-Napoleon Roinard<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mus\u00e9e Granet
Aix-en-Provence<\/p><\/div>\n

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Tivoli Too \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 St. Paul, MN
(Marcie, Woodstock, and me reading together. Lucy teasing w\/football backdrop)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Fran\u00e7ois-Pierre Peyron “Sainte Madeleine M\u00e9ditant”<\/p><\/div>\n

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Th\u00e9odore G\u00e9ricault<\/p><\/div>\n

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Th\u00e9odore G\u00e9ricault
L’apave ou La temp\u00eate<\/p><\/div>\n

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Eug\u00e9ne Delacroix
“Ruines de la chapelle de l’abbaye de Valmont”<\/p><\/div>\n

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Photography exhibit of Sistine Chapel,
Montreal<\/p><\/div>\n

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Raymond Mason
“Illuminated Crowd” \u00a0 Montreal<\/p><\/div>\n

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Claude Monet
“Route, effet de neige soleil couchant”<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sculpture Garden
Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts, Rouen<\/p><\/div>\n

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Frits Thanlow
“La vieille fabrique”<\/p><\/div>\n

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Jesus up close<\/p><\/div>\n

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Henry Raeburn
Mary Magdalene and Jesus
Santa Barbara Mission<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mary close up<\/p><\/div>\n

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And closer…
Sculpture Garden
Mus\u00e9e des Beauxs-Arts, Rouen<\/p><\/div>\n

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Albert Fouri\u00e9
Mort de Madame Bovary<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sir John Lavery
“Japanese Switzerland” Dublin City Gallery<\/p><\/div>\n

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Leonard Baskin \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0New Orleans<\/p><\/div>\n

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Leonard Baskin<\/p><\/div>\n

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Poet’s Corner
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale<\/p><\/div>\n

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