We each have our own reactions to the new configuration in hull. In later posts more volunteers will give their personal experience with Bigger Trees Near Warter, but for now, here is my initial reaction...
At first I thought, Bigger Trees Near Warter has become smaller, which seemed strange given that the room and not the artwork was smaller (than in York) but my reactions kept changing, by the second. The painting then seemed to grow before me and I was reminded of Alice in Wonderland. Had the painting had a glug of enlarging potion?
I was transported, the closer I got the more real it became, the energy needed to create those sweeping strokes became clearer, I felt the speed and brilliance of the lines and composition.
In York, from the great distance between the painting and the viewer, I had been reminded of a huge brain spreading out like branches - but now, without that distance afforded me, I had a different experience, intimate, closer in many respects.
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