Monday, October 29, 2018

MoMA Highlights



This month, liwaliw Pages shares space with books selected from my personal library's "pride of place," namely those I received as gifts (or pasalubong) from my BFF Emerson Miranda, who was born on July 13, 1984, and passed away only last September 28, 2018. He was 34 years old.

Page 34 of MoMA Highlights: 350 Works from the Museum of Modern Art, New York contains "Untitled (Eternal Flame)" by Alfred Kubin, from the artist's series of drawings based on German folk tales and myths. The Museum's description of the painting seems apropos for Halloween:
The feeling of horror and mystery of this image is created through a subtle play of light and dark that envelops the foreground figures in an enigmatic veil. Light dramatizes and brings forth from the shadows both the flame and the floating skull, thus heightening the effect of a hallucinatory vision. 
Coincidentally, the month of October is also Museums and Galleries Month, pursuant to Proclamation No. 798, series of 1991.



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