1.22.2010
Friday Featured Art: Window Overlooking the Woods
We went to the Art Institute last Saturday to see a documentary on William Morris, and then we wandered around a bit. You see something new every time you go. This time I noticed a really beautiful, huge landscape. This image does not do it justice. It is by Edouard Vuillard and is titled Landscape: Window Overlooking the Woods.
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I'm really impressed with this painting, too--in particular (and it's hard to see on small-scale versions of the painting), I like the woman sitting in upstairs room at the center-left. There are little colorful flowers in the window. What's so interesting to me is that the painting COULD stand alone without her presence--but the fact that she IS there, with THOSE flowers, looking over THAT scene, makes me wish I was sitting in her chair, feeling the late-summer warm air blowing across the fields and through an open window... The painting's meaning grows exponentially for me simply because she is there.
I wish we had a photo that would accurately depict how great this painting is! Very moving.
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