tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post3194804264732151409..comments2024-03-22T03:10:02.053-07:00Comments on THE BLUE LANTERN: Two Old Maids And A WidowJane Librizzihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03943563452168571716noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post-76860323475918350582013-02-04T06:28:52.868-08:002013-02-04T06:28:52.868-08:00It may be less satisfying but more instructive to ...It may be less satisfying but more instructive to explore how the creative impulse works in imperfect people (all of us). But I do understand the feeling, Toile la la. Thanks for your comment.Janehttp://www.thebluelantern.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post-84404064132994288742013-02-03T15:46:07.667-08:002013-02-03T15:46:07.667-08:00Blue Lantern Jane, I enjoyed this post - particula...Blue Lantern Jane, I enjoyed this post - particularly for your description of the Neue Galerie exhibit featuring Wiener Werstatte, Floge, and Klimt.<br /><br />Researching Wiener Werkstatte and most recently looking for any information of Schwestern Floge, your post came to my attention. Very informative.<br /><br />These last comments here reflect the disappointment felt when one learns the personal life/ethics of a great artist or writer does not measure up to the public's admiration and perception. I agree - and feel it is easier to enjoy a masterpiece when its creator is of good character.<br /><br />The Floge sisters certainly seem enterprising and creative. <br /><br />toile la lahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02062461404198265226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post-37728025589469732612011-09-19T06:29:26.085-07:002011-09-19T06:29:26.085-07:00I think the root of our discomfort is a desire tha...I think the root of our discomfort is a desire that the work and its creator(s) share the same attributes. It also calls into question the notion of 'personal expression.'Janehttp://www.thebluelantern.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post-57043171889412401342011-09-18T15:56:46.832-07:002011-09-18T15:56:46.832-07:00Melinda
isn't that the truth! What does a pers...Melinda<br />isn't that the truth! What does a person do?<br /><br />Gauguin sent his wife and 5 children out of France to his parents in law, and never saw them again. While he luxuriated in the Pacific islands!<br /><br />Degas, whose work I used to love, was a vicious anti-Semite who never spoke to his Pere Pissarro again.<br /><br />Charles Dickens, whose writing I used to love, was so disgusted with his wife's floppy stomach after having HIS 10 children, he threw her out of the house and forbade the children from talking to her.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post-59223296047393662232011-09-18T11:32:04.230-07:002011-09-18T11:32:04.230-07:00Melinda, Wolfgang Georg Fischer's book "G...Melinda, Wolfgang Georg Fischer's book "Gustav Klimt & Emilie Floge:An Artist And His Muse" is informative but noticeably slanted. It's not always a good thing for an accomplished woman to be linked with an accomplished man. Men tend to assume the woman is secondary. As it is, I wonder if I have failed to do justice to Pauline Floge and Helene Floge Klimt, but there's very little information about them. I'd love to know more about the property from the Emilie Floge estate that Sotheby's auctioned off in 1999.Janehttp://www.thebluelantern.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post-36916210206549336822011-09-18T06:38:41.147-07:002011-09-18T06:38:41.147-07:00I've often wondered about Emilie Flöge - thank...I've often wondered about Emilie Flöge - thanks for this interesting post on her life. Klimt has always seemed to me like one of those artists like Gauguin - it's better to just keep your eyes on their work because as human beings they weren't very nice.Melinda9https://www.blogger.com/profile/17583388297697161971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post-7925642488744872872011-09-16T10:04:14.498-07:002011-09-16T10:04:14.498-07:00Welcome, A.T. I agree completely about the Neue G...Welcome, A.T. I agree completely about the Neue Galerie in Manhattan. Before I went there, I asked a former art history student for his opinion and he responded that it was an interesting museum if you like "the Klimt ladies." He gave me a set of magnets of "the Klimt ladies" and they are on my refrigerator now.Janehttp://www.thebluelantern.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post-89087885066048471902011-09-16T09:16:49.523-07:002011-09-16T09:16:49.523-07:00I included you, Jane, in a little art blogger appr...I included you, Jane, in a little <a href="http://wutheringexpectations.blogspot.com/2011/09/image-blogger-appreciation-day.html" rel="nofollow">art blogger</a> appreciation I put up today. Why I did not mention this fascinating post now escapes me.<br /><br />The Neue Galerie is an amazing place.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post-57386588345852691162011-09-16T06:23:31.624-07:002011-09-16T06:23:31.624-07:00Hels, I think the comparison of clothing made by v...Hels, I think the comparison of clothing made by various establishments is a good example of the problem of price. Even though much of the jewelry produced by the Wiener Werkstatte used semi-precious stones, it was still expensive. The long necklace with the heart pendant at the end (worn by Floge in the last photo)was also in the exhibition but I can't remember who designed it.Janehttp://www.thebluelantern.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post-37686585035937338732011-09-16T00:21:18.230-07:002011-09-16T00:21:18.230-07:00I love the brooch designed by Josef Hoffmann and m...I love the brooch designed by Josef Hoffmann and made of silver and gilt, coral, opal and lapis lazuli. It has been published before but not mentioned that it may have been for sale at the Floge salon in Vienna. If so, it was presumably to be made in vast numbers, not a one-off present to an individual girlfriend.<br /><br />I'd love to know what problem Viennese designers faced, but never solved. <br /><br />Thanks for the link<br />Hels<br />http://melbourneblogger.blogspot.com/2011/06/vienna-art-and-design-exhibition-in.htmlHelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post-53382378494939058482011-09-14T06:55:37.717-07:002011-09-14T06:55:37.717-07:00Rouchswalwe, sad indeed. But not to worry, I'...Rouchswalwe, sad indeed. But not to worry, I've read that Vienna is planning all manner of Jugendstil exhibitions for 2012, the 150th anniversary of Klimt's birth. A great artist but hardly an admirable man.Janehttp://www.thebluelantern.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post-50702659927762938622011-09-14T06:51:53.933-07:002011-09-14T06:51:53.933-07:00Neil, I think she's smiling in the last three ...Neil, I think she's smiling in the last three pictures (all taken on vacations at Lake Attersee). The first picture and the last two were among the blow-ups at the Neue Galerie - not much research needed when you stand in front of photos almost twice as tall as you are. <br />My guess, for what it's worth, is that Floge and Klimt did not have an affair.Janehttp://www.thbluelantern.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post-17286991468879946442011-09-13T17:25:07.998-07:002011-09-13T17:25:07.998-07:00"No-one was interested in Jugendstil" !!..."No-one was interested in Jugendstil" !!! Now that is a sad state of affairs.Rouchswalwehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01393987883437907945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post-28772089553036544422011-09-13T14:56:28.190-07:002011-09-13T14:56:28.190-07:00Fascinating post, Jane. I love the picture researc...Fascinating post, Jane. I love the picture research, especially the photo of Klimt and Emilie in the boat. She looks very happy, which she doesn't in the other images.Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18020242863144175965noreply@blogger.com