Today, I visited the Morse Museum in Winter Park, Florida (a suburb of Orlando). This small art museum is devoted primary to the works of Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933), an American artist in various media.Tiffany represented the Arts and Crafts movement, which attempted to bridge the gap between popular interior design and furnishings and the refinement of the elite fine arts. He worked primarily in glass, such as stained glass windows and glass implements, such as vases. Although he experimented with other media successfully, glass was his focus, and he used it in innovative forms.
Most notably, he used it to create an elaborate chapel which has been re-created at the Morse Museum. The museum has placed pews in front of the display, which is appropriate. Even in the midst of a bustling art museum, the viewer steps through a rift into a reverent world devoted to God. Perhaps the pews should include kneelers, because Tiffany's display of divine majesty will almost bring you to your knees.
2 comments:
John,
Winter Park has to be one of my favorite towns in the whole State of Florida. Ten years ago two of my goods friends got married there on New Year's Eve. It was an awsome ceremony at the Methodist Church and the reception was a right down the street at the women's club and was a blast! I loved the town. I remember on 12/31 we were playing golf on that course right in the middle of town. I was terried I would slice or hook a ball and bust the windsheild out of someone's car! I was a nervous wreck. But, as I was playing I walked past an orange tree loaded with fruit. I simply picked, peeled, and ate as I was walking down the fairway. I will go on the record and say right now that if I had to live in the State of Florida, it would have to be in the town on Winter Park.
It would be a very good choice, Keith. It's a beautiful town. Idyllic in a suburban paradise way. It's very upscale now, with a high-end bohemian district.
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