The Arts

I try to keep a balance of topics on the blog, but balance is one of those difficult things to attain and to maintain. I have noticed that I have been rather lax about posting serious art entries. Mea culpa. Sometimes recipes get the short end of the stick, sometimes it is baseball, but this time I have noticed a lack of art talk.

Part of it stems from the fact that I have been looking at art that I already know quite well. Part of it stems from looking at said art with a toddler. On Thursday we went to the Oakland Museum of California and took an inventory of horse (and sometimes cow) images. Then we looked for uses of the color purple.

Oh well, you gotta start somewhere.

We had an interesting discussion over whether a mid-1950's (a Berkeley 1954 painting that is predominantly black, grey and brown) Diebenkorn indeed was a picture of a horse. Amalia decided that it was, in spite of my argument that it was a more generally landscape oriented abstract expressionist piece.

"It's a horse, Babbo! Here are the legs, here is the head, and it is jumping!"

So there you have it. Horse or no, it is really a fine painting. Go to the museum to see it.