Ensembles / Artistic Juxtapositions
Apr 29, 2014 19:31:38 GMT -5
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Post by greaden on Apr 29, 2014 19:31:38 GMT -5
One of Philadelphia's many quirky museums is the Barnes Foundation. Barnes collected art and made his own artwork out of arrangements of paintings (mostly French impressionists) and various metal knick-knacks with similar forms. According to the notoriously strict terms of his will, the museum must preserve his "ensembles", as he called them.
One advantage of Vario sheets is that I can make ensembles out of stamps and adjust them easily. Ensembles could be arrangements based on motif or color or just about anything. They could be elaborate geeky jokes. One of Barnes' walls combines portraits of stiff Chinese bureaucrats with stiff German saints.
For stamps, they could be juxtapositions that tell stories other than the history of a country or combining the same topic.
This example is maybe not the best for making a case, as the contrast in stamp style is extreme, and certainly lacks Barnes' artistic sense, but it is what got me thinking about non-traditional stamp arrangements. Here, I have included a Czech set featuring Jaroslav Hašek's character, the Good Soldier Švejk, a goofy, poorly-disciplined member of the Austo-Hungarian military fighting in the great war. The stern Austrian military 'KuK feldpost' issues somehow needed this reference to the sort of character using them.
One advantage of Vario sheets is that I can make ensembles out of stamps and adjust them easily. Ensembles could be arrangements based on motif or color or just about anything. They could be elaborate geeky jokes. One of Barnes' walls combines portraits of stiff Chinese bureaucrats with stiff German saints.
For stamps, they could be juxtapositions that tell stories other than the history of a country or combining the same topic.
This example is maybe not the best for making a case, as the contrast in stamp style is extreme, and certainly lacks Barnes' artistic sense, but it is what got me thinking about non-traditional stamp arrangements. Here, I have included a Czech set featuring Jaroslav Hašek's character, the Good Soldier Švejk, a goofy, poorly-disciplined member of the Austo-Hungarian military fighting in the great war. The stern Austrian military 'KuK feldpost' issues somehow needed this reference to the sort of character using them.
