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Barry Weissler Exclusive:
Day 16
By Barry Weissler, Art
Tue Feb 5, 2008
I am emphatic about art and many types of art work. I love paintings and sculptures. I see that good art also tells a story, but perhaps a more delicate and ephemeral sort.
I recently bought the most beautiful painting by Claudio Bravo. He is a contemporary realist painter whose work I love. It is a stunning painting of green silk, which tells a story about light and perception. It is very intriguing. What is this silk doing there? Has it been abandoned, discarded? Is it what was left after an undressing? Will it be the gown of some lovely woman?
Alex Katz, another favorite of mine, paints women. He paints women that you want to live with; want to know them and know about them. They are frozen in a moment - usually of reflection. I see them and want to know what happened just a moment before, and just a moment after. Its amazing, it never gets old.
Sculpture has a way of drawing you in. It makes you want to walk to the other side of it, and around it. You want to see it from all angles so you don’t miss anything.
Until tomorrow…
Broadway producers Barry & Fran Weissler are the recipients of five Tony Awards®. Their numerous Broadway credits include acclaimed productions Othello with James Earl Jones and Christopher Plummer, My One and Only with Tommy Tune, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Kathleen Turner and Charles Durning, Gypsy with Tyne Daly, and the Tony Award-winning productions of Falsettos and Annie Get Your Gun with Bernadette Peters and Reba McEntire, among others. They are currently represented on Broadway – and across the globe -- with the international smash hit Chicago, which earned six 1997 Tony Awards® including Best Musical Revival, as well as countless other awards in the U.S. and abroad.