Saturday 8 September 2018

Terrestrial Art

Poul Anderson, The Byworlder, XII, pp. 140-141.

Skip shows the Sigman:

a Mondrian pattern
a Japanese torii gate
Chinese calligraphy
Durer
Michelangelo
Velasquez
Rembrandt
Corot
Motonobu
Lung-Mien
Persian miniatures
Lascaux bison
a Hindu cup
a Grecian vase
a Polynesian war club
an African mask
an Aztec skull carved in crystal
a Russian icon
Nefertiti's head
Aphrodite
Nike
Rodin
Brancusi
Milles
Nielsen
parks
gardens
noble houses
temples
cottages
palaces
bowers
castles
tombs

He had intuited that the Sigman was an artist in search of beauty.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

I esp. like the paintings of Diego Velazquez. I recall how, last year, I was very enthusiastic at seeing his painting "Don Baltasar Carlos and His Dwarf," at the Museum of Fine Art in Boston, MA.

Sean