Comments on: Feel Art Again: “The Bookworm”

By: Therese

Therese — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:04:57 +0000

I missed this post earlier! I had the same thought as Roger et al., that this seems like a forerunner of Rockwell.

I really like this painting and might have to make it my wallpaper. Maybe I can help make Spitzweg a household name. (Good thing I don’t have reason to make Unterpfaffenhofen a household word.)

By: Sid Morrison

Sid Morrison — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:49:23 +0000

Roger is right… I meant that to be one of my talking points.

By: mri

mri — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:33:13 +0000

roger-

thought the same!

By: Roger

Roger — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:07:10 +0000

Hmm – I wonder if his works had any influence on Norman Rockwell… this has that same sort of playful, idealized quality.

By: Sid Morrison

Sid Morrison — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:35:29 +0000

It’s a beautiful work yet it’s a shame this is probably the only one of his pieces fairly familiar to the general (North American) public. I had to look up others myself, and those I’ve found are rather impressive as well. He deserves to be more of a household name, but probably gets overlooked by changing tastes that for some reason seem to prefer impressionists more. Pity.

By: tulip

tulip — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:02:25 +0000

This is one of my favorite paintings. Whatever you think about the movie “What Dreams May Come” there were several famous paintings that the did kind of “live” in the movie and the Bookworm was one of them. I thought that was so cool. :)

By: Allison

Allison — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:44:31 +0000

Awesome painting. Strangely, it reminds me of a scene with “Bedknobs and Broomsticks”