Tiffany, Hair Ornament발음듣기
Tiffany, Hair Ornament
Louis Comfort Tiffany, extraordinary artist that I've spent virtually my entire career studying.발음듣기
And yet, just a little over a decade ago, I saw this hair ornament for the first time, and nearly fainted.발음듣기
Embodying so much of what this artist was all about: his muse nature, and nature in its most natural state.발음듣기
Captures this tiny, tiny, tiny moment-- dragonfly just lands on something for an instant and then is off again--made of materials that are the embodiment of solidity.발음듣기
The black opals lined up on the back highlighted with these tiny, tiny green demantoid garnets, and you can almost sense the shimmering of the wings of the dragonflies.발음듣기
And then they're sitting on these dandelion puffs--the most noxious weed that creeps into all of our yards, but he sees beauty.발음듣기
Little bits of white opal on this network that contains it; one of these dandelion puffs has actually been partially blown away.발음듣기
I think he looked at this with special eyes and those eyes help transform the way we look at nature.발음듣기
This hair ornament was made for Louisine Havemeyer, the great avant-garde collector of French modern painting.발음듣기
She's quoted as saying when someone asked her, “Wouldn't you rather have a string of pearls than a picture?”발음듣기
And she responded, “No. I would far rather have something made by a man, than something made by an oyster.”발음듣기