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| Henri Cartier-Bresson |
This is with Spring Break in mind. Good time to listen up--with all the senses...!
Best to each one of you!
(ps. my starting points were overhear and catch sight of...)
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Follow-up from last Tuesday evening:
Lauren asked that I post a link to the some of the Soviet-era videos (film clips) we watched on Tuesday:
Очи черные - YouTube (Ochi Chornye)
YouTube - Изабелла Юрьева "Только раз..."/Izabella Yurieva (Tol'ko Raz)
Марк Бернес - Темная ночь - YouTube (Temnaya Noch')
The point I was making was about the way a "high culture" tradition (operatic, let's say) can merge with a "folk" tradition. We also looked at some John Singer Sargent's paintings (his spontaneous portraits in relation to his commissioned work--the extreme example being his Boston City Hall murals). And briefly, Michaelangels's late, "unfinished" works in relation to say the Sistine Chapel. And then a couple of Thomas Eakins portraits-as parallel and counter. The spontaneous in relation to the planned. As so often happens, when the discussion itself is spontaneous, "you had to be there..." But the film clips remain wonderful...
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