It's 2018 and when I went to put a comment on a painting at the San Diego Museum of Art, discovered that this blog exists and the last entries were 2007. Probably there were more entries but as I was beginning to apply for jobs, deleted them. or maybe this blog was just a way to drive traffic to my other public web presences.
Here's what I posted today:
https://thegallerysd.blogspot.com/2010/12/collection-close-up-diego-riveras-hands.html?showComment=1520900310517#c3347169063394829563
Here's what I posted today:
https://thegallerysd.blogspot.com/2010/12/collection-close-up-diego-riveras-hands.html?showComment=1520900310517#c3347169063394829563
A few days before seeing this painting I went to an exhibition of Ramón y Cajal's original drawings on display at the Grey Gallery in NYC. Cajal delineated cytokinesis with beautiful drawings based on observations through a microscope. Certainly we cannot avoid comparing many of Cajal's neuron depictions as appearing to be trees. Made me question, what was Rivera's source material for the cells in the tree canopy? Is it possible he saw reproductions of Cajal's drawing in particular, or did he have alternate sources to draw from?
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