I recently read My Name is Red by the Turkish author Orhan Pamuk. I have a lot to say about My Name Is Red, but one thing that I found fascinating was that the miniaturist characters had a sense that the artform in which they were engaged had reached its apogee about a hundred years earlier in Herat, Afghanistan.
I share your current interest in the miniatures from the Asian kingdoms. I had the privilege of working for several decades with a major museum’s collection of those paintings and never ceased to be hypnotically transported into their detailed worlds; As an artist, I did a series of paintings inspired by the luscious margins surrounding the scenes. Nice topic for further study, Robert.
I was an art history major in the early 80s, and I resent that the subject of Persian miniatures was basically skipped. This art had several hundred years of a tradition, with masters in many locations--the very definition of art history. But Gardner and Jansen (and my professors) decided we 19-year-olds didn't need to learn about Persian art.
It’s never too late to explore any period of art history. I’m currently in a deep dive into Martin Kippenberg and the Cologne school of the 70’s and 80’s. It was the center of the art world, filled with wild men and women and a great music scene, all shaking off the Nazi past of their parents and bringing down the Berlin wall in the process.
I share your current interest in the miniatures from the Asian kingdoms. I had the privilege of working for several decades with a major museum’s collection of those paintings and never ceased to be hypnotically transported into their detailed worlds; As an artist, I did a series of paintings inspired by the luscious margins surrounding the scenes. Nice topic for further study, Robert.
I was an art history major in the early 80s, and I resent that the subject of Persian miniatures was basically skipped. This art had several hundred years of a tradition, with masters in many locations--the very definition of art history. But Gardner and Jansen (and my professors) decided we 19-year-olds didn't need to learn about Persian art.
I was an art history major in the early 80s and we mostly skipped right over this artform. I still resent that.
It’s never too late to explore any period of art history. I’m currently in a deep dive into Martin Kippenberg and the Cologne school of the 70’s and 80’s. It was the center of the art world, filled with wild men and women and a great music scene, all shaking off the Nazi past of their parents and bringing down the Berlin wall in the process.
I wrote about Kippenberg (somewhat indirectly) in a post called "Beer, Art, Drugs, & Murder".
I read Kippenberg’s Beer based on your post. Terrific little book.