Friday, November 6, 2009

VICTOR ANDERSON LENTOGRAPH

I couldn't resist the Lentograph of the popular "Jesus at ....Door" painting, often reproduced in sentimental X-tian fundamentalist books. Not only is it in "3-D", but it looks great in my dining room from a perspective of color, proportion and.....well, you'd have to have a similar aesthetic, I suppose! Good Art looks good with other Good Art, I reckon......The Jesus picture not only elevates my spiritual sensibilities but looks good next to a photo of Anita Ekberg, in the fountain scene....with the white kitten.....from "8 1/2", as well as it complements the colors of the rug. When I was a youth, I worried that my Grandmother, at the age I am now, decorated her home with the weirdest paraphernalia such as camel saddles and strings of brass monkeys lit by totem lamps.......ala John Waters, with whom she was certainly not familiar.....Now, I am increasingly attracted to more bizarre decor and find the spreads in Architectural Digest....well.....rather dull and pretentiously affected......
We are Guarded by the Cross by Saint Elijah Childrens Choir