Showing posts with label toledo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label toledo. Show all posts

January 17, 2008

View of Toledo

Seeing as I changed my profile picture to this, I figure I should at least explain the significance.  This painting is my favorite of all time.  It's by the artist El Greco.

I first saw it on TV in the museum that they walk through in Keeping the Faith (a movie I affectionately call "Duffy's profile").  I really don't have much desire to visit NYC (shocking, I know), but seeing this painting in person would be one of the reasons to.
I get lost in it.  I just catch myself staring at it from time to time.  I think it's the edginess of it all but I can't even pinpoint what it is about it that draws me in. 

That's the beauty of art I suppose.