From: MarshaV (marshalz@i-2000.com)
Date: Wed Oct 27 2004 - 10:47:09 BST
Greetings,
I went three times to Boston to see the Sargent Exhibition. I felt
something about Sargent's paintings that touched my heart. Deeply! I saw
his paintings as prayer. There is no record that Sargent was involved in
any a relationship with woman or man, and maybe because of that, it's been
speculated that he was gay. I don't believe it. I believe, from seeing
his paintings, that he was having a major love relationship with
painting. Love with the Divine. I'm not a Sargent, but it's a
direction. I can't think of a better direction, for me.
Well, instead of through religion, I would like to pursue the Divine
through painting. I find the 'big three' religions inadequate. Yet it's
scary moving outside the culture's religions. It's hard, too, to move
outside you family's beliefs. (Maybe for you it's easy, but for me it's
hard.) But it may be the only way to broaden horizons and to become more
tolerant of each other.
I should be allowed to write what I just wrote. Why do I feel so
vulnerable? Who should care?
Big ego vs. little ego.
MarshaV
P.S. I love Diebenkorn's work. I couldn't say which I like better, his
abstract or more realistic period. I've seen his paintings only in a book,
but I thought them wonderful.
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