Zoomed-in Mrs. Henry White
Everglades Wetland
I was watching Bones yesterday. I watched “The Diamond in the Rough” episode.
Angela’s character was undergoing a crisis. She had woken up, and suddenly realized that she had been doing a job for years that “was not even close” to what she had wanted to do.
Angela’s passion is art; I don’t share her passion, I am not great at appreciating paintings for anything more than beautiful, amazing pieces of human creativity.
So when Angela came back into work from taking her son to the museum and had this conversation, I was on the side of her boss, Cam (and this is not verbatim, but is close, I can’t remember the colors specifically):
A discontented Angela said: “I could only look at Mrs. Henry White for 20 minutes.”
Cam: “Wait, you looked at one painting for twenty minutes?”
Angela: “John Singer Sargent used a palette of “something” black, vermillion, “something blue”, and “another color”, just for the skin. Do you think you could take all that in after just 20 minutes?”
I don’t think I could.
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