Karin Jurick - source
Karin Jurick - source
Karin Jurick - source
Karin Jurick - source
Karin Jurick - 'Day Dreamers' - source
Karin Jurick - 'How Bourgeois' source
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Karin Jurick - source
Karin Jurick - 'O'Keefers' - source
Karin Jurick - source
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Karin Jurick - source
Karin Jurick 'Celebrity Sighting' - source
This is the wonderful work of American painter Karin Jurick - newly discovered by me (I know, where have I been?). Couldn't wait to share it. I love these paintings of museum goers and their attitudes, the paintings within paintings. A separate world.
Quote from Karin Jurick's blog regarding the last painting - 'Celebrity Sighting': "I love this story - record crowds have been 'flocking to the Frick Collection' to see the Dutch painter, Carel Fabritius's oil titled 'Goldfinch' - which is the inspiration for the novel by Donna Tartt. It is a wonderful thing when masses of people are interested in art and get to the museums.'
I couldn't agree more.
Hello Yvette,
ReplyDeleteThese paintings by Karin Jurick are indeed most intriguing as one is simultaneously the watched and the watching as one looks at the work. One can only wonder what is in the minds of these people as they look at the masterpieces in front of their eyes......do they look but do they see?
And yes, so important that museums attract people in order that the wonders that they contain can enrich lives and make us all reach another dimension.
Hoping that you are well. We have missed you. Thank you so much for your kind comment to which we have made reply.
I am very well, thank you, Jane and Lance. So nice to hear from you after all this time. I know you both have been having the time of your lives, still, I'm glad anyway that you didn't forget us. :)
Delete'...the watched and the watching...' Well put.
What a fantastic concept , this is just wonderful. I love Boston and the big Museum and Gardner too. It's time for another visit.
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Thanks, Yvonne. Glad you enjoyed it. I hope if you go to the museum, you'll post about it. :)
DeleteThis is such an interesting collection of paintings: museum goers looking at paintings. I like many of them, with notice of the woman with the striped skirt.
ReplyDeleteAnd, yes, what a good quote by Karin Jurick about the masses of people going to museums. That's why all art should be in museums -- so everyone can appreciate it, those of all incomes. Art is meant to be seen by "the masses," by humanity.
Yes, Kathy, art is meant to be seen by 'the masses'. I wonder if art exists at all in an empty room. Just thinking out loud.
DeleteI like the idea of paintings within paintings, and the irony of the informal viewers juxtaposed to the more formal subjects.
ReplyDeleteMy town of St. Petersburg, Florida is home to the largest collection of Dali art outside of Spain, and is a popular tourist attraction. Unfortunately, the price of admission is prohibitive, which means (in my book) that some would-be lovers of art get excluded. What a shame!
I like the idea as well, Mark AND the irony you mention.
DeleteHigh fees can be difficult indeed especially if you have a large family. I know MOMA is twenty bucks now. It used to be a donation of what you could afford - more or less. Those days have come and gone. Twenty bucks (it could be even higher now - I haven't been in a while.) The Met is probably the same - haven't been there in a while either. Though I mean to go this year.
New to me too - thanks Yvette.
ReplyDeleteYou're very welcome, Sergio.
DeleteTo me, having a fee of $20 a person or more defeats the purpose of a museum, which is exhibiting art for the public to see.
ReplyDeleteIn my view of the world, all art should be exhibited for everyone to see and free of charge, so people can go to any museum and bring large families.
When I was a child and my parents would take us to museums, including MOMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Natural History, and in Chicago, where I lived for awhile, the Museum of Science and Industry, it was free.
In the Science museum in Chicago, one could just walk in, which we did frequently and walk through a big replica of the human heart, see chicks hatch, visit a facsimile of a coal mine, etc. What memories I have of that!
I am in complete agreement with you, Kathy. But it seems that museums must raise money to stay open one way or another so in a way you can hardly blame them. When I was a kid we went to the museums all the time but it was on school trips, my parents not being museum goers. But that's where the love of art and science and history sprang to life for me, I think. We had great public schools in the city then.
DeleteTo me, the Metropolitan Museum (especially) is almost like a church. It's hallowed ground.
The Met was $20 when I last went, Yvette and special exhibits add to the cost. Most museums do a "free" evening now and then.
ReplyDeleteThis artist's works are very imaginative! I love museums, Yvette. I have a post about one on my blog right now :)
I'm headed on over there right this minute, Pat. (Your blog, I mean.) One of these days, Pat, we'll have to meet up at the Met. When you take one of your trips to the city, I mean.
DeleteThank you for the feature Yvette, and a note to all - most museums in Washington DC are free to the public. Don't miss the National Portrait Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum away from the 'mall' area.
ReplyDeleteYou're very welcome, Karin. Thanks so much for dropping by. I'm a big fan. And thanks for the Washington D.C. museum info. Good to know.
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