--- Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Frank .... > > Your emotions SHOULD color your interpretation and > opinion ... at least > that's how I see it. > > I didn't set this up ... what you see is exactly > what I saw thru the window > that day. > > I don't see the reclining woman as a mocking figure, > rather, I see her more > as a representative figure of the Kennedy's sexual > escapades, another > aspect of the story countering the more macabre > death icons, something of > the balance or contrast between life and death. > When I first saw the scene > I thought it may have been Marilyn Monroe, but I'm > now more unsure of that, > and just see her generally representing the women in > their lives. > > Frank, I gotta tell you, it was a bit chilling when > I first saw the setup > thru the window, in the harsh light of the store. > > I think the "Summer of Love" was 1967 .... 1968, > sadly, was certainly not > a year filled with love :-(( >
I don't know why I always get that wrong: of course '67 was the Summer of Love, not '68. Yeah, 1968 was anything but the Summer of Love. It was pretty much the year that the wheels fell off... Anyway, I like your take on the reclining figure. Of course, back then Jack's little escapades were only hinted at, and what was generally known then was, as it now seems, the tip of the iceberg. And, yes, of course one's emotions should colour how one feels when looking at a work. If we didn't feel anything, what would be the use of looking? I think what I meant (but didn't convey well) was that I was trying to differentiate the technical expertise from the emotional content. A futile (and possibly irrelvent) task, I know. I was just so overwhelmed by the image that I, for some reason, wanted to "step back", and try for a moment to be detached. Which is a rather silly thing to do with art, isn't it? cheers, frank ===== "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
