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BILBAO
Pastel and Colored Pencil on paper
16 x 20
I could no more explain the source of all of the complicated reflections in this image than I could explain
how Einstein came up with E=mc(2). It's easier to just copy the original photograph and forget for a period of time
what is reflecting what, because in a Gehry building, everything reflects everything else.
Frank Gehry is a genius and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain is one of the few Art Museums that I've ever seen that's more interesting to look at than the Art it contains. You
can't help but be physically drawn into this huge admixture of opacity and transparency. The titanium plates that are
said to represent the scales of a fish, cover the surface ripple and undulate the light; the building reflects itself and
its surroundings, the water reflects the building and the sky obscures the edges of the structure so that on a bright day
it's difficult to decide were the building ends and the landscape begins.
As someone once said "If the building is as good as this one is, @%&* the Art."
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