I'm too fickle, drifting from one to the other, usually depending on what I've seen last. Sorta like music; whatever I've heard last may ring through my head for a day or two. Right now, it's "Good Vibrations" by the Beach Boys.
Visual arts-wise, I recently came across a combination of paintings which struck me as pretty neat: "Pinky" and "Blueboy."
"These two works are the centerpieces of the institute's art collection, which specialises in eighteenth-century English portraiture. The painting is an elegant depiction of Sarah Barrett Moulton, who was about eleven years old when painted. Her direct gaze and the loose, energetic brushwork give the portrait a lively immediacy.[1][2][3] "
She died about a year after the painting.
"Relationship to The Blue Boy[edit]
Pinkie owes part of its notability to its association with the Gainsborough portrait The Blue Boy. According to Patricia Failing, author of Best-Loved Art from American Museums, 'no other work by a British artist enjoys the fame of The Blue Boy.'[9] Pinkie and The Blue Boy are often paired in popular esteem; some gallery visitors mistake them for contemporary works by the same artist."
The two paintings are displayed on opposite sides of a doorway in the Huntington Library at San Marino, California where they can be seen together.
Just a pair of paintings whose "combination" appealed to me.
As they do to many others.
Tomorrow it may be some artist's rendition of a yellow cube or something.
Terry, 230RN
REFs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkie_(painting)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Boy
