“…without explanatory wall texts, the gallery represents the de Menils’ philosophy of allowing unmediated and direct contact with the artwork on view, not conditioned by curators’ thoughts and opinions. “Perhaps only silence and love do justice to a great work of art,” Dominique de Menil once said.”
Looking for some international photo workshops, I came across this great image from Peter Turnley.
Here’s the image from his Facebook page….
Or go to his website…
A powerful reflection of a man in prayer, plus all of the other things going on in the mosque around him.
All pray in different ways…and this photo captures it and the sensibility of Istanbul beautifully and wordlessly.
I want to go back to Istanbul! and do more shooting…This inspires me.
From the New York Times obituary upon the death of Cy Twombly, July 5, 2011:
“In the only written statement that Mr. Twombly ever made about his work, a short essay in an Italian art journal in 1957, he tried to make clear that his intentions were not subversive but elementally human.
Each line he made, he said, was “the actual experience” of making the line, adding: “It does not illustrate. It is the sensation of its own realization.” Years later he described this more plainly. “It’s more like I’m having an experience than making a picture.”
The process stood in stark contrast to the detached, effete image that often clung to Mr. Twombly. After completing a work, in a kind of ecstatic state, it was as if the painting existed and he barely did anymore: “I usually have to go to bed for a couple of days.”
Amen. Exactly.
RIP, Cy. I’ll miss you.
(Italics mine)
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