Aisha Urooj's Blog - Posts Tagged "art"
New Blog Series: Things You Might Not Have Seen or TYMNHS?
I am still in search of that list but that won’t stop me from starting a new blog series centered around Things You Might Not Have Seen or TYMNHS, for short lol. Why? Because like Ellie says in My Dear Ellie, the world is more wonderful and weird than you know and we should explore it.
So what will I be focusing on the TYMNHS posts? Anything that catches my fancy and sparks the creative mind. I would limit it to Books, movies, shows and art though because if I fall down the black hole of strange nature phenomenon, cute animal videos or funny clips, there is no getting out of it.
For my first entry, I present to you this Art: ‘Dawn’ – Edmund Hodgson Smart, 1907. Dawn is a symbol of hope and new beginnings and I begin my new blog series with this image.
What a lovely image..though it could be renamed the ‘Quarantined Life’. I hope that you hadn’t come across this painting before and that I introduced you to something brand new.
I will continue to feature more books, movies, shows and art for you to see. I hope that you find them as mesmerizing as I did.
So what will I be focusing on the TYMNHS posts? Anything that catches my fancy and sparks the creative mind. I would limit it to Books, movies, shows and art though because if I fall down the black hole of strange nature phenomenon, cute animal videos or funny clips, there is no getting out of it.
For my first entry, I present to you this Art: ‘Dawn’ – Edmund Hodgson Smart, 1907. Dawn is a symbol of hope and new beginnings and I begin my new blog series with this image.
What a lovely image..though it could be renamed the ‘Quarantined Life’. I hope that you hadn’t come across this painting before and that I introduced you to something brand new.
I will continue to feature more books, movies, shows and art for you to see. I hope that you find them as mesmerizing as I did.
TYMNHS: Nocturne in Blue and Silver; the Lagoon Venice by James Whistler
One of my favorite paintings, that I had the pleasure of seeing in person at an Art gallery, was the Nocturne in Blue and Silver; the Lagoon Venice by James Whistler (Oil on Canvas, 1879-1880).
When I was growing up, my teacher asked the class to sketch two professions that we wanted to be in when we grew up. My first sketch was, no surprise, a Doctor 😅 (In my defense, I did end up in research). My second sketch was of an Artist.
I have taken art classes throughout High School and I still paint today. I would be enamored with the paintings in my art book, not realizing that it didn’t show (pardon this pun) the ‘whole picture’.
An image on a page can’t show the true scale or dimensions of an artwork nor can it capture the layers, brush strokes and rough surface in its glossy representation.
I was in awe when I saw that some of the impressionist paintings in the exhibition I attended spanned the length of a room. This painting, however, was the size of a magazine. I had seen pictures of it but it wasn’t my favorite until I saw it in person.
The best way I can describe how I felt after seeing this painting is that imagine that you get sucked into a void where you cannot see or hear anything else. There is absolute silence. That is how I felt looking at the ghostly boats and the small lights off to the distance. I could imagine crickets chirping in the silence of the night and the sounds of water rippling in small waves.
I still get chills thinking about the powerful impact this painting had on me that day.
Thank you for reading! I hope that you discovered something new with me today.
When I was growing up, my teacher asked the class to sketch two professions that we wanted to be in when we grew up. My first sketch was, no surprise, a Doctor 😅 (In my defense, I did end up in research). My second sketch was of an Artist.
I have taken art classes throughout High School and I still paint today. I would be enamored with the paintings in my art book, not realizing that it didn’t show (pardon this pun) the ‘whole picture’.
An image on a page can’t show the true scale or dimensions of an artwork nor can it capture the layers, brush strokes and rough surface in its glossy representation.
I was in awe when I saw that some of the impressionist paintings in the exhibition I attended spanned the length of a room. This painting, however, was the size of a magazine. I had seen pictures of it but it wasn’t my favorite until I saw it in person.
The best way I can describe how I felt after seeing this painting is that imagine that you get sucked into a void where you cannot see or hear anything else. There is absolute silence. That is how I felt looking at the ghostly boats and the small lights off to the distance. I could imagine crickets chirping in the silence of the night and the sounds of water rippling in small waves.
I still get chills thinking about the powerful impact this painting had on me that day.
Thank you for reading! I hope that you discovered something new with me today.
