Gosh, Xmas has come very early this year. Kind Mick Hartley sent me seven blisteringly gorgeous pictures from Kew. Really – when I saw the second I kind of squeaked – the fifth made me exclaim aloud – and the sixth and seventh made my eyes feel all funny. I have to say, I think this is one of the best art ideas of all time. Tracy Emin can keep her old unmade bed; give me Chihuly curled fluted curved shell-like flower-shapes in iridescent colours posed against a pair of glass doors in the Temperate House.
I immediately stuck one on my desktop – looking across the Palm House pond toward the museum, with the glass bobbling things in the foreground and the boat full of multicoloured objects just barely visible in the back, and the fountain and the museum and the trees – and I just keep gazing fondly at it, with my mouth hanging open foolishly.
You have until January 15th. You’re silly if you miss it.
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14 responses to “Nature and Art”
I’m getting a slightly weird feeling, Ophelia. When I saw your earlier post about Chihuly at the Kew and some of the responses, I thought,how eerie it was I liked the same kind of stuff. This group-think thingy goin on at B&W is getting to be too much..;-)
But it looks so fabulous and I am so tempted to jump on a plane and just go!
This is one of the best. It’s on my desktop now. Great shot
http://www.chihuly.com/installations/kew/Art/CdKew4_IMG0042_XB.html
This is one of my favorites. A wonderful shot
http://www.chihuly.com/installations/kew/Art/CdKew4_IMG0042_XB.html
Ooh. It’s on my desktop now too. Dang, that’s magical. Thanks, Doug.
Spooky, isn’t it, Mirax! We need someone to come along and say ‘No, yuk, these are awful.’
Doubt we’ll get many though. I think the appeal is pretty universal.
It is a little spooky. In fact, I was just pricing glass kilns the other day so I could make organic-looking glass whatsits of my own, though I’m no Chihuly.
Looks like an explosion on a bargeload of liquorice chews….
Always happy to oblige, OB.
Yours curmudgeonly,
What a shame that my view of the beautiful greenhouse is obscured by a boat full of balloons….
Haaaa! Thanks, Dave.
Greenhouse! Greenhouse! Greenhouse! That ain’t no greenhouse, that’s the Palm House. That’s Decimus Burton’s holy sanctified Palm House. Greenhouse indeed. You might as well call King’s College Chapel a tool shed.
You know, don’t you all, that Kew Gardens and even Dale Chilhuly’s multi-thousand dollars creations represent the exploitation of the working class and should be shunned? :)
There’s something in that! Entry to Kew used to be a penny – now it’s about fifty pounds.
Of course, if we’re going to be militantly atheist around here, at least a tool shed is *useful* for something…
;-)
Not a bit of it. Being militantly atheist doesn’t in the least mean you have to prefer a useful tool shed to a stunning work of art.
Ah, but what is ‘art’, if pro maiorem gloriam dei? It was KC chapel we were comparing to, no? Anyway, I thought this was the wisecracking thread, don’t go being serious…
I know, I know, it was a joke. But I don’t get jokes! Don’t see the point of them.