Herb and Dorothy

I’ve heard of that documentary before but now I will definitely need to see it. Herb and Dorothy are art collectors. They have more than 4,000 pieces with a very modest income.

What I found interesting is the filmmaker’s notes about her own documentary. She hit a wall after only six month of production when she realized that Herb and Dorothy never could explain with words why they bought their art except saying “we liked it”.

She writes in the film website: “Then Lucio Pozzi, the very first artist I interviewed, opened my eyes. His response to my dilemma was, “That’s why the Vogels are very special. Why should you explain art? What’s the need to verbalize art? Herb and Dorothy only look, look and look. That’s their way of communicating with art and artists.” This breakthrough in my thinking about them allowed one of the deep themes of the project to emerge. I started paying attention to how they look at art, instead of how they talk about it. Herb in particular doesn’t talk much, but I realized that his eyes do the talking, when looking at art – with great intensity.”

Shouldn’t art be look with the eyes instead of being explained with words?
How interesting…

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