Sturm und Drang - a Corvette & Bruce Allen
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
John Henry Fuseli - The Nightmare. Oil on canvas, 101.6 × 127 cm. Detroit Institute of Arts |
My Bunny Watson blog gets ever more so from day to day. To find out what I mean by Bunny Watson look here.
New Today in my Friday York Times I read about the new mid-engine
Chevrolet Corvette. Because I was around and old enough (11) to understand a
bit about cars I knew about it and by the time I was in Mexico City in 1954 I
was able to see the real thing outside the American School in Tacubaya (I was
in the 6th grade) parked by the rich son of some American
industrialist.
Whenever I spot a Corvette in Vancouver I watch for the
license plate. If it says Unruly it is Bruce Allen’s. There are perhaps two
unchanging obsessions in his life (I am sure he does not swear or shout
anymore). One is his love of Coca-Cola and the other of the Corvette.
Bruce Allen - August 1983 |
The nice essay in the Business Section of the NY Times had
an expression I had never seen.
It doesn’t have the operatic Sturm und Drang of Ferrari or
Lamborghini, but it really is an everyday supercar. “
Eddie Alterman – chief brand officer for Hearst Autos
I looked it up:
Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress [previously urge]) was a
a proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music that occurred between
the late 1760s and early 1780s. Artists: Henry Fuseli, Philip James de
Loutherbourg and Claude Vernet. Writer Johan Wolfgang von Goethe and composer Christoph
Willibald Gluck were leaders of the movement.
Wikipedia
Wikipedia
I noticed a name among the painters that I knew about, Henry
Fuseli. One of my faves is the painting you see here. And looking beyond all
this I found that there is a Sturm und Drang Photography movement.