I went to the Cleve Art Museum last weekend - there was one picture that amused Sharon - it was a Gaugin - "The Call" - well, look at it and remember, Gaugin moved to Fiji to basically be a hedonist with the village women, there was nothing "lofty" left about him, lol . . . anyway, on the placard, someone was trying to tell us that the village woman in the picture that Gaugin painted, the one with the "come hither" finger, was calling Destiny. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Sharon laughed and said any woman who is a mother will tell you that this woman is calling her child that you can't see in the illustration of the villagers, probably a boy,who is getting in some sort of trouble, to "GET OVER HERE NOW." I can only figure that the curator who wrote this, this "calling destiny" was a single male with no children. I haven't quite figured out how to make this link live - I know, I'm a sorry case - so you'll have to cut and past in another Tab.
www.abcgallery.com/G/gauguin/gauguin74.html
I wouldn't have gotten "Destiny" out of that finger either. I love Gaugin by the way. One of my favorites I've found goes by different names. I think it is "The Siesta" but am not sure. Three women sitting on a mat with their backs to us. I love the colors and the feel of it. BTW, didn't Gaugin do the one we have in one of our books--about a creator? The purpose or meaning of life? He must have thought about some other things besides women--a little.
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