SAD LOVE SONGS...

By Debbie Bulloch


Losing at love is never easy.

As B.J. Thomas sang in a song that was popular back in the ‘70s:

So please play for me a sad melody
So sad that it makes everybody cry-y-y-y
A real hurtin' song about a love that's gone wrong
'cause I don't want to cry all alone







Here are three songs about lost love.

BREAD – Everything I Own





WILLIE NELSON – You Were Always On My Mind





THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS – You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling





EDITOR’S NOTE: The two black and white photos were taken at the Sculpture Garden in the Norton Simon Museum. The Norton Simon Museum in located in Pasadena, California. The Simon collections include European paintings, sculpture, tapestry and remarkable sculpture from South Asia. Outside gardens house sculpture and a pond. The museum is located along the route of the Tournament of Roses Parade, where its distinctive, brown tile-exterior can be seen in the background on television.

The museum features a theater which shows films throughout the day. It hosts lectures, symposia, and dance and musical performances year-round.

The first photograph is of a sculpture by French – Catalan sculptor Aristide Maillol (December 8, 1861 – September 27, 1944). The subject of nearly all of Maillol's mature work is the female body, treated with a classical emphasis on stable forms. The figurative style of his large bronzes is perceived as an important precursor to the greater simplifications of Henry Moore and Alberto Giacometti, and his serene classicism set a standard for European (and American) figure sculpture until the end of World War II.

He died in Banyuls, France at the age of eighty-three, in an automobile accident. A large collection of Maillol's work is maintained at the Musée Maillol in Paris, which was established by Dina Vierny, Maillol's model and platonic companion during the last 10 years of his life.

The sculpture on this photograph is called Le Montagne, (The Mountain) and was sculpted by Maillol in 1937. Dina Vierny was the model for this work.

The second photograph is of a bronze sculpture by British sculptor Henry Moore (July 30 1898 – August 31 1986). Moore was an English sculptor and artist. He was best known for his abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art.

Moore was born in Castleford, the son of a self-taught Irish mining engineer. Henry became well-known through his larger-scale abstract cast bronze and carved marble sculptures, and was instrumental in introducing a particular form of modernism to the United Kingdom.

His forms are usually abstractions of the human figure, typically depicting mother-and-child or reclining figures. Moore's works are usually suggestive of the female body, apart from a phase in the 1950s when he sculpted family groups. His forms are generally pierced or contain hollow spaces. Many interpreters liken the undulating form of his reclining figures to the landscape and hills of his birthplace, Yorkshire. Maillol was a big influence in Moore’s work.

The Art Gallery of Ontario (Ontario, Canada) houses the largest public collection of Moore’s works in the world.

The third, and final photograph depicts a worker bee “working” a flower. It was taken on the gardens of the Gene Autry Museum, in Griffith park, Los Angeles, California.

All photographs © 2009 – 2010 by DB. All rights reserved.