Thursday, June 05, 2008

Path and Pattern

Nothing elaborate to write tonight. I'm thinking, and I do that very slowly. I've been thinking, for example, about this painting for about a year now, and I still haven't come to any fruitful way of putting forward my ideas of it. I'm not in a rush to do that. Some things are worthy of a great deal of contemplation, and this painting is one of those things, for me.



Tanner, Henry Ossawa
The Annunciation
1898
Oil on canvas
57 x 71 1/2 in. (144.78 x 181.61 cm)
Philadelphia Museum of Art

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

My birthday, and also that of one of the Doctors of the Catholic church, St. Catherine Of Siena, a Mystic.
Consider her work in your contemplation.
The Feast of the Annunciation is March 25th.