These are the two paintings by Cesare Laurenti that I mentioned earlier. They are a diptych and are meant to be hung side by side. Your thoughts? (Click on the picture to enlarge)Update
Yes J. These paintings certainly struck me as about the life cycle of women. This is a theme that has been on my mind a lot recently. Only lately have I really begun to see myself as an aging woman. It is as if I moved from the left picture to the right picture without really noticing and now I find myself at the top of the stairs going down. Am I becoming that 3rd woman up from the bottom - still looking out at the world and the future, and yet aware of how fast life has gone, and how much closer I am to the end? Why do I feel surprised?
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A large part of me really likes these paintings and feels a fondness for all those females, young and old. There's another part of me that feels irritated...Why aren't the women on the balcony of the right picture still dancing? Damn...I want to dance across that balcony and down those stairs! Maybe not when I get to those last few steps...but I want to dance as long as I can.
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Thank you for posting the Parable pictures. I had looked for them this morning on line but could not find the images. How big are they? How are they made? What was the room like where you found them? It looks like the life cycle, am I right? Similar to the dramatic reading we did last night in San Francisco for the Firefly Project. Birth, youth, family, love, struggle, illness, loss, aging, death, life force, transcendant art. Always moving. J
Very interesting. I can see why it stopped you. I think your last response was the best. I have a feeling we WILL be dancing.
I looked up the artist - he died in 1937. There have been so many changes in the last 3 and 4 generations, I am different at my age as my mother was different from hers. We are aging more slowly and dancing longer. :)
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