| | Ask a Stupid Question continued from last Wednesday... Log24 on August 26-- "Did you see more glass?" |
Wednesday, August 26, was the date of death for Hyman Bloom. Bloom, described in today's New York Timesas "a painter of the mystical," died at 96. Bloom often painted portraits of imaginary rabbis; an article titled "American Mystic" describes
"... the mesmerizing paradox at the heart of the rabbi portraits-- they remember keepers of a tradition in a method that tradition expressly forbids. As Bloom explains, age and illness endowing his voice with a hoarse, prophetic quality, 'Jewish culture has nothing to do with painting. That’s a rule, "Thou shalt not make an image of anything in the air or on the earth."'" -- Stephen Vider, Tablet Magazine, February 28. 2007Related material: An entry in this journal linked to twice on the date of Bloom's death-- Art and Man at Yale-- and an illustrated entry from this journal on the date of the "Mystic" article--
Elements of Geometry. "So, there is one place where modernism triumphs. As in the cases of the pyramids and the Taj Mahal, the Siegfried line and the Atlantic wall, death always calls on the very best architects." -- J. G. Ballard, " A Handful of Dust" |
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