Marcia Selsor on thu 15 dec 05
Marianne,
You speak so eloquently of Voulkos, Rodin and Picasso. We had a Rodin
Museum on the Parkway in Philadelphia. Often I would wandered around
the city on Saturday afternoons after my art classes (from 11-17
years old) I did skethes of Independence Hall and Carpenter's Square.
I loved the Rodin museum. Also I first saw "Guernica" by Picasso in
the Met in NY in 1967. I saw it again in Madrid after it was allowed
to return to Spain. It had been exiled under Franco. It is
overwhelming to be sure. In Madrid there were benches arranged for
people to sit and study it. When I was there, there were many
japanese people staring at it. I considered the bombings of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki as being equally horrid events as the bombing of
Guernica. I always was taught that Guernica was the first bombing of
civilians.
Later I discovered that the reason the Nazis bombed Guernica was to
kill the Basque Tree of Liberty. To kill a tree. The basque
replanted a tree to symbolize the Tree of Liberty.
Today, the burned out trunk of the bombed tree is guarded by armed
guards. So is the new Tree of Liberty. It is not only in ART that
symbols are significant.
Best wishes,
Marcia Selsor in Montana
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