Art in High-Def.
I have been enjoying a series on Gallery HDTV which is called, " The Private Life of a Masterpiece ". It is an old BBC show which has been recreated for HDTV. It's an amazing show. I have always been an art lover and I am the type of person who can sit in front of a painting and view it, ponder on it, reflect on it and basically use it as a literary tool. My wife and friends sometimes don't see why I sometimes take so long to sit infront of a painting. When I look at good art, I tend to ponder about various things in life and what is the artist trying to convey through his art. Enough of the mumbo jumbo...So far I have seen the episode about Sandro Botticelli's Primavera and Vincent van Gogh's ("Goth") Sunflowers (the 9th version) . As many of don't know (including myself before I watched the show) that Vincent painted 10 versions of the Sunflower painting and his 9th is considered the masterpiece since the background is yellow and the m...