the weekend warrior, pt 496

<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">"white paint is my marble"</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Victor Horta</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> vs</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Cy Twombly</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6015/5923193161_7a19e59357_b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6015/5923193161_7a19e59357_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 662px; height: 841px;" /></a><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6131/5923190781_22de0d922b_b.jpg"><br /></a><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6147/5923273147_fdb4483a6c_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6147/5923273147_fdb4483a6c_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 662px; height: 621px;" /></a><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6015/5923193161_7a19e59357_b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><br /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >the weekend warrior, pt 496</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"white paint is my marble"</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Victor Horta</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-weight: bold;">vs</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> Cy Twombly</span><br /><br /><p class="h9">"<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">White paint is my marble,</span></span>" says Twombly, who for more than 40 years has been living in Rome surrounded by marble columns. But his early life was spent--as part of each year is now spent--among the Neo-Classical columns of Virginia, wooden columns painted white. Back in 1958, when we in England were beginning to respond to contemporary American art, Lawrence Gowing wrote a remarkable article, "Paint in America," exploring the crucial role in American experience of wood painted white.</p> <p class="h9">"It is the quality of wood which has lasted in America and remains as strong as ever, a quality as definite and pervasive as marble ever gave to a country, and one that similarly supplies the base of life and imagination.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> The classical material of American building is wood and the characteristic structure is clapboard, frame surfaces of overlapping strips. It is painted white....</span><br /></p><p class="h9">In America the idea of structure envisages a broad assembly of slender parts, standing squarely, but with a quality of light attentiveness, independent but aware.... In the balance [of the construction] there is the most lively serenity: it is recognisably embodied in the colour, the white paint." </p><a href="http://www.cytwombly.info/twombly_writings2.htm">(taken from here)</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Victor Horta</span> (6 January 1861 - 9 September 1947) was a Belgian architect and designer. John Julius Norwich described him as <span style="font-weight: bold;">"undoubtedly the key European Art Nouveau architect."</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />-------------------------------<br /><a href="http://www.stevenvolpe.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />-------------------------------

the weekend warrior, pt 496

"white paint is my marble" Victor Horta vs Cy Twombly the weekend warrior, pt 496 "white paint is my marble" Victor H...

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