i found this article on a random blog and thought it lovely, if kooky (plus it is about one of my favorite artist, the distressingly wonderful cy twombly):
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Woman Charged for Kissing a Twombly Painting.
A woman has been charged in France for kissing a Cy Twombly painting worth more than 2 million dollars. Sam Rindy was overcome with passion in front of the work and just couldn’t help herself.
Painting meets its femme fatale
“I left a kiss,” she told La Provence newspaper on leaving the police station. “A red stain remained on the canvas… This red stain is testimony to this moment, to the power of art.” Speaking to French news agency AFP, she said the artist had “left this white” for her. BBC
so the question goes like this: what piece of art has/does/would move you to kiss it (perhaps without the criminal ramifications)? the painting that moved this woman to love it so is entitled, appropriately, A Scattering of Blossoms and other Things.
1 comment:
oh it's too hard to pick just one... but i remember seeing a very simple, straightforward, linear "portrait of a young man" by lorenzo lotto in the uffizi when i was 17 and i kinda fell in love a bit :)
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