'Great View, Plenty of Privacy'

(From John Martin, via Wikimedia Commons, used w/o permission.)
(John Martin's "Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion." (1812))

Captions —

" 'Just around the corner,' he says - - -."

— or —

"And you thought you had a rough day."

And here's food for thought: who, or possibly what, lives in those houses tucked into the mountainside?

More stuff the Lemming calls art, in case you're interested:

• "From the Mind of the Lemming: Xanadu Springs"
  (June 20, 2014)
• "From the Mind of the Lemming: The Lemming's Walking Stick"
  (May 23, 2014)
• "From the Mind of the Lemming: Just Outside Hobbiton (maybe)"
  (April 18, 2014)
• "Coffee Cup, Doughnut: the Lemming's Back"
  (March 28, 2014)
• "Night of the Creeping Tree"
  (February 21, 2014)

Yosemite, Hudson School, and All That

(From Thomas Doughty/National Gallery of Art, via Wikimedia Commons, used w/o permission.)
"Fanciful Landscape," Thomas Doughty.

One thing the Lemming has noticed about nature is that it's big: very, very, big. Small wonder that artists like Thomas Doughty get carried away while painting their landscapes.

Thomas Doughty was with the Hudson River School, which had more to do with the Catskills and Adirondacks than pencil sharpeners and blackboards: although blackboards actually were black back then, and that's another topic.

Anyway, another Thomas took at least part of Horace Greeley's advice, and went west: all the way to California.


(From Thomas Hill/Crocker Art Museum, via Wikimedia Commons, used w/o permission.)
"Great Canyon of the Sierra, Yosemite," Thomas Hill.

That's "Great Canyon," not "Grand Canyon," which is an unreasonably big washout in another state. Oddly enough, humans in these parts get upset over little washouts, but make a tourist attraction out of one that's a mile deep.

Granted, the Grand Canyon is scenic: and got started long before any humans wandered into this continent, and that's another topic.

Where was the Lemming? Adirondacks, pencil sharpeners, erosion: right.

Thomas Hill's paintings of Yosemite may not be exact representations of the landforms there, but he didn't exaggerate the scenery by much. In Yosemite, there's little need: the place is spectacular.


(From GuyFrancis, via Wikimedia Commons, used w/o permission.)
"U shape valley Yosemite"

Related posts:

• "Night of the Creeping Tree"
  (February 21, 2014)
• " '...Charming, Quiet Neighborhood' "
  (January 3, 2014)
• "Henri Matisse, Color, Light, and Art"
  (January 25, 2011)
• "Saul Steinberg's View from New York City"
  (July 3, 2010)
• "Rio Grand Valley: America's Almost-as-Grand Canyon"
  (September 14, 2009)

Night of the Creeping Tree

(From Caspar David Friedrich, via The Yorck Project and Wikimedia Commons, used w/o permission.)
Caspar David Friedrich's "Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon."

Is it just the Lemming, or was that tree moving a moment ago?

Vaguely-related posts:

• "'...Charming, Quiet Neighborhood' "
  (January 3, 2014)
• "A 'Bookish' Librarian, Art, Words, and a Rambling Lemming"
  (November 8, 2013)
• "From the Mind of the Lemming"
  (January 6, 2012)
• "Museum of Modern Art: MoMA isn't a Japanese Cartoon Character"
  (December 7, 2011)
• "Lemming Tracks: 'Obey Gravity! It's the Law' "
  (July 9, 2011)

"...Charming, Quiet Neighborhood"

("The Abbey in the Oakwood/Abbey among Oak Trees/Abtei im Eichwald," Caspar David Friedrich, via Wikimedia Commons, used w/o permission.)

Handyman special: secluded, charming, quiet neighborhood.

Is it just the Lemming, or do those trees look like they stopped moving a moment ago?

Allegedly-related posts:

• "A 'Bookish' Librarian, Art, Words, and a Rambling Lemming"
  (November 8, 2013)
• " 'Fountain of Abundance' and the Psychedelic Buffalo"
  (April 27, 2012)
• "April 6, 1912: Manitoba; the Titanic; Atlantis; a Painting; and a Car"
  (April 6, 2012)
• "Gingerbread, Fruitcake, and Eggnog Nightmare #2"
  (December 23, 2011)
• "Zinnias, in Gardens Ablaze, Sound Good Enough to Eat: But Don't"
  (August 14, 2010)

April 6, 1912: Manitoba; the Titanic; Atlantis; a Painting; and a Car

The town of Transcona, Manitoba was incorporated on this date in 1912. This is also the day in 1912 when the territory of Manitoba grew to its present size.

You'll find a whole lot more about what happened on April 6 in Canada, at "April 6," This Day in Canadian History.

The same year, April 6 was the day when the RMS Titanic was four days from starting its first voyage, and nine days from ending its last trip. ("RMS Titanic," Wikipedia)

Elsewhere in 1912:

• Leo Frobenius was in the last year of an expedition
  • In Africa
  • Where he thought he'd found Atlantis
• Gustav Klimt painted a picture of Mäda Primavesi
  • Neither of whom are particularly famous today
• Gaylords were still being built
  • It's a kind of car

None of which is likely to help you fill out your income tax forms. Which, if you're an American, are due April 15. Which, oddly enough, is the same date on which the Titanic sank.

Sort-of-related posts:

• "Gaylord: A Car, Another Car, a Company, a Town, and a Block of Wax"
  (November 18, 2011)
• "Woman 'Cut in Half:' Journalistic Hyperbole, Remarkable Account"
  (September 23, 2010)
  • A Manitoban's surgery in Mayo Clinic, Minnesota
    • That's three words starting with "M"
  • Minnesota is also the home of 3M corporation
    • Significant?
      • Probably Not
• "Map the Titanic: Big Ship, Big Job"
  (August 28, 2010)
• "African Art, Photos, and a Whacking Great Generalization"
  (June 21, 2010)
• "A Portrait by Gustav Klimt"
  (May 2, 2008)

Henri Matisse, Color, Light, and Art

"Henri Matisse: Color and Light"
School Arts: Looking/Learning, National Gallery of Art (May/June 1999)

"Henri Matisse painted Open Window, Collioure in the summer of 1905, when he and André Derain worked together in the small Mediterranean fishing port of Collioure, near the Spanish border.

"The scene is filled with light, vibrant, and inviting. The vermillion masts of blue-hulled boats float on pink waves below a sky banded with turquoise, pink, and periwinkle. Reflected in the glass of the open window, the scene becomes rectangular blocks of bright green, watery cyclamen, and lilac, and the walls framing the view are violet and turquoise. These are hardly the colors of nature--and they provoked an outrage when Matisse exhibited Open Window, Collioure later in the year at the Salon d'Automne in Paris.

"Eyewitness accounts tell of laughter emanating from room VII, where audiences saw this painting and similar works by Matisse, André Derain, their friend Maurice de Vlaminck, and others. Gertrude Stein reported that people scratched at the canvases in derision, and a critic, noting the presence of a Renaissance-style statuette in the center of the room, quipped 'Tiens, Donatello chez les fauves' (Well, well, Donatello among the wild beasts). Soon, these artists were being called the fauves, and room VII la cage. It was one of the first places where the world got a glimpse of what art would be in the twentieth century.

"The fauves liberated color from any requirements other than those posed by the painting itself. 'When I put a green,' Matisse would later say, 'it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.' He was painting pictures, not things. Color was a tool of the painter's artistic intention and expression, no longer limited by the imitation of nature...."

Matisse knew what he was doing.

In the Lemming's opinion, one reason that 'modern art' gets mocked so much is that it's entirely too easy to:

• Slop something onto a canvas
• Say that anybody who doesn't appreciate it is a dunce
• Sell the mess for a few thousand dollars

Sort of like The Emperor's New Clothes, except this racket kept going for decades. The Lemming suspects there were too many people with lots of money and too little self-confidence: and that's another topic.

The National Gallery article tells about Matisse - and how this unlikely young man from an industrial town got started as an artist. You'll also find a (very) short discussion of how 19th and 20th century artists studied color.

And yes: artists don't just lie around being 'artistic.' There's a certain amount of work and research involved. If you're going to do it right. In the Lemming's opinion.

Related posts:

• "Color, Psychology, Emotions and Mood"
  (January 30, 2010)
• "Interior Design: A Pretty Good Learning Resource"
  (September 24, 2009)
• "Henri Matisse: a Pretty Good Set of Biographical Information"
  (August 30, 2009)
• "What Color is Your Blog? Why? An Online Discussion With Resource Links"
  (February 12, 2009)
• "Are Moods Really Blue? Color, Psychology, and Culture"
  (May 21, 2008)

Tempura isn't Tempera

Tempera paint is of interest to the Lemming for at least two reasons:

• For its appearance, when used in painting
• Because of the effort it took the Lemming to spell the word
  • And pronounce it

Anyway, here's more about tempera paint:

"Painting: Tempera"
School of Art and Design, San Jose State University.

"- INTRODUCTION:

"Egg tempera is one of the oldest mediums in painting. It consists of dry pigment, water and egg yolk. These pigments are not only used in tempera, but can be used for fresco, encaustic and watercolor paints as well. Tempera was used all over the world: for the icons of the Russian and Greek churches, for panels of Italian painters, for Islamic manuscripts, and even for modern American painters...."

It's a pretty good resource: a history of tempera paints - and an instructional video on how to make your own egg tempera.

Now, about tempura. The Lemming supposes someone could paint with tempura: but it's supposed to be eaten:

"Tempura"
Bento.com

"Tempura is, in many ways, an archetypal Japanese food. All the essential qualities of the nation's cuisine are reflected in its preparation: the use of absolutely fresh ingredients, the artful presentation, and the perfection of technique by a skilled chef. The result is one of the triumphs of Japanese cooking-a fried food that is light and fresh-tasting rather than heavy and greasy. It's a cooking style in which the essence of the ingredient itself completely defines the taste.

"It may come as a surprise to learn that tempura was not originally a Japanese dish; it actually owes its origins to the visiting Portuguese missionaries of the sixteenth century. But tempura, like many imported ideas, gradually adapted itself to Japanese needs and tastes. By the late nineteenth century tempura was a popular fast food in Tokyo, sold from sidewalk stalls and roaming pushcarts, and today's modern tempura (made by deep-frying vegetables, fish and shellfish) is no longer a foreign food at all, but a completely Japanese cuisine...."

There's more: how to prepare and serve tempura; and a "Tempura Sample Menu."

Interestingly, considering the origins of tempura, tempera has also been used in Portugal: like in the Jorge Colaço tiles in Lisbon, Portugal, showing part of the battle of Aljubarrota.

Well, it's interesting to the Lemming. Your experience may vary.

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Fencing Stolen Art: Bakwin Paintings, a 'Criminal Lawyer,' and Common Sense

"Art stolen from Sturbridge home in '78 returned to owner"
WHDH-TV (November 17, 2010)

WHDH-TV's account is a sort of conclusion to this more detailed, if not quite so up-to-date, account:

"The Bakwin Paintings – a tale of fraud and deceit"
Withers Worldwide (June 1, 2007)

"In 1999, an insurance underwriter asked the Art Loss Register in London to search its database of stolen art to confirm that the seven paintings he was asked to insure during transport from Russia to the UK had not been stolen. The Art Loss Register reported that the images of the paintings matched seven paintings stolen in 1978 from the private residence of Michael Bakwin, a Massachusetts collector. The paintings were valuable: they included a Cézanne, two Soutines, an Utrillo and a Vlaminck. Mr Bakwin instructed the Art Loss Register to try and recover them...."

"...Instead of handing the stolen paintings to the police, Mardirosian kept them and tried to sell them or return them in exchange for cash. When his name became public following the opening of the sealed envelope, he reportedly told Field Fisher Waterhouse, the London law firm ostensibly representing Erie, 'to give up'. Field Fisher Waterhouse terminated their representation...."

The thief who stole the paintings in the first place is dead. That should be "alleged thief," since the case apparently didn't go to trial.

An interesting detail: Withers Worldwide identified Robert Mardirosian as a "criminal lawyer practising in Massachusetts." There's a wisecrack about 'truth in advertising' lurking around the phrase "criminal lawyer," but the Lemming will leave that exercise up to the reader.

One thing that stands out in these accounts, for the Lemming, is how a lawyer - presumably sober and in possession of most of his marbles - could have thought he'd get away with fencing stolen property. By going through a legitimate agent. Not someone specialized in handling stolen property. Dealing with a professional fence wouldn't have been so daft. Illegal, unethical: but not so daft.

A few generations back, with slower and less detailed communication, maybe. Now?

The lawyer's in prison.

Art Portraying Art: Meta-art?

"Inspired Impressions: Interior Paintings by Jeremiah Goodman"
Nicholas McLaughlin and Katy Mantyk, The Epoch Times (October 26, 2010)

"The New York School of Interior Design opened its exhibit Inspired Impressions: Interior Paintings by Jeremiah Goodman last week and will keep it running through Dec. 20.

"On show will be a retrospective of the New Yorker's signature room portraits and the iconic magazine covers he created for Interior Design Magazine. Carolina Herera, renowned clothing designer and style icon, could be seen among the guests admiring the works, one of which is a painting of her room.

"According to the New York School of Interior Design, Goodman is treasured in the interior design community for his rare ability to infuse static rooms with warmth and personality and bring them so vividly to life.

" 'I got to be known for interpreting a decorator's style,' Goodman told Home Miami.

"Still energetic and fully engaged in his work at 88, Goodman told Habitually Chic writer that growing up during the Depression instilled in him a strong work ethic, and that he still gets up every morning to draw and paint...."

The Lemming isn't sure what the status is, just now, of an artist who's chiefly known for painting representational pictures of interior designs that someone else made. I think it qualifies as "art" - but then I think highly of Norman Rockwell's work, too: including what he did before he became 'relevant.'

Which is another topic.

Sort of. Goodman is known for being the creator of covers for Interior Design magazine: which might suggest that Interior Design magazine covers are "art," while Saturday Evening Post magazine covers aren't. Or weren't.

The Lemming wrenches himself back on-topic again.

There's more detail in the article about the exhibition and Goodman's art. Which will be on display until December 20th. Even better, admission is free. All you have to do is walk over to the New York School of Interior Design exhibit at 161 East 69th Street. Folks who aren't in New York City? Well, that is yet another topic.

Spartacus: Odd Name, Impressive Blog

Actually, the name of the blog is more like SPARTACUS - which is about as close as the Lemming is going to get to imitating the title graphic.

The blogger who's creating SPARTACUS (makavetis.blogspot.com) drew my attention to the blog yesterday afternoon in a comment left on yet another blog. ("Having All the Answers, Knowing Some of the Questions," A Catholic Citizen in America (October 2, 2010))

The Lemming wasn't at all sure what to expect: there's an enormous range of folks who would like to show others their new 'art' blog.

The most recent post was "El Greco - The Burial of the Count of Orgaz." (October 4, 2010)

Two things stood out:

• Clean design that let a visitor get straight to the content
• A pretty-good picture of the El Greco painting
  • That linked to a better one on a Picasa album

The post is short: there's that graphic, and a single-paragraph description. Pretty standard stuff, actually: but (or "and") smoothly-presented.

The next two posts treated one work each of François Mulard, Edgar Degas, Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall the same way.

Here's part of the comment I left, in response to the blogger's 'heads up:'

"...Although I take the art of folks like Walt Kelley (Pogo), Norman Rockwell, and people who haven't 'made their name' yet seriously - it's good to pay attention to the established 'greats.'..."

SPARTACUS may not be for folks who like one particular style of painting or graphic art. Mulard and Chagall, for example, aren't exactly on the same page. Maybe not in the same book.

For folks who enjoy browsing through art in a broad range of styles - done by artists who knew what they were doing - this blog looks like a pretty good place to go.

If You Think Fine Art Should be Dull and Stodgy, DO NOT VIEW THIS

"Thrilling mad Fine Art seascape painting"

artbytv, YouTube (March 29, 2007)
video, 1:38

"Like oil painting? Let's have some fun. You can do this too. Throw the paint around and get these results. Art is nothing if not wild and magical. Let's do it all together.

"Here's an invite into the inner sanctum of a professional artist's studio. It's not all pretty. We don't apologize for that - it's part of the thrill. Working with Fine Art Techniques and thrilling-mad creative energy, a masterpiece seascape painting is developed from start to finish. You see three month's work in 1.5 minutes...."

The video starts with the artist saying "This is an exercise in atmosphere...."

No doubt it is - but if you're hoping to learn how to create a painting like that - the clip is no more than a gargle at the fountain of knowledge.

And, so there's no mistake: this isn't some "art for art's sake" thing. The folks who put that clip together wouldn't mind a bit if you bought their DVD.

Still, it's one minute and 38 seconds of a lively fellow with an engaging British accent - and some pretty good background music. The painting's not hard to look at, either.

Henri Matisse: a Pretty Good Set of Biographical Information

Henri Matisse
Answers.com

• Born: 31 December 1869
• Birthplace: Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France
• Died: 3 November 1954
• Best Known As: French artist and leader of the Fauve movement

"Henri Matisse is considered the most important French artist of the 20th century and, along with Pablo Picasso, one of the most influential modernist painters of the last century. Matisse began studying drawing and painting in the 1890s. A student of the masters of Post-Impressionism, Matisse later made a reputation for himself as the leader of a group of painters known as Les Fauves. An ironic label given to them by a critic (it means "wild beasts"), the name reflected Matisse's aggressive strokes and bold use of primary colors...."

That's how the Answers.com page on Henri Matisse starts. Most of the information's what you'll pick up elsewhere online - although Answers.com has, I think, one of the more thorough and accessible collections of text and pictures.

I was particularly interested in a paragraph at the end of Answers.com's copy of a Wikipedia page:

"...Henri Matisse's grandson, Paul Matisse, is an artist and inventor living in Massachusetts. Matisse's great granddaughter Sophie Matisse is active as an artist in 2009. Les Heritiers Matisse functions as his official Estate. The U.S. copyright representative for Les Heritiers Matisse is the Artists Rights Society...."

The links on Answers.com led back to Answers.com pages (fair enough - they like to generate internal traffic). I did a quick search and found the URL for Artists Rights Society: arsny.com.

Arsny?!

Artists Rights Society uses the acronym ARS - probably inspired by "ars longa, vita brevis", attributed to Hippocrates: or, 'Life is fleeting, but art endures.' ("The Trouble with Art" Ronald R. Thomas) And ARS is in New York City: N. Y.: so a good, memorable URL for the outfit is arsny.com - until someone pronounces it.

Getting back to Henri Matisse.

I was glad to learn that his descendants, some of them, are keeping up the sort of creative work that Henri Matisse did.

Rembrandt van Rijn: Take a Look, Buy a Book?

Rembrandt van Rijn
life, paintings, etchings, drawings & self portraits

Sure, the website's got an online Rembrandt bookshop, plus opportunities to buy hand-made Rembrandt copies, or prints & posters: but there's a pretty good selection of information about Rembrandt - and his house, and galleries of paintings, etchings, and drawings by the 17th century artist.

Sure: it's commercial. It's also a pretty good website for people wanting a look at Rembrandt and his work.

The Storm - Fancy Footwork and Fine Art

"The Storm"
Pierre-Auguste Cot, oil on canvas, 1880
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

"This painting was commissioned from the artist in 1880 by Catharine Lorillard Wolfe under the guidance of her cousin John Wolfe, one of Cot's principal patrons. When it was exhibited at the Salon that year, critics speculated about the source of the subject...."

In my considered opinion, this work was inspired by Daphnis and Chloe by Longus - a Greek romance recorded sometime around 200 A.D.; or something else.

I also think that, from the position of their legs, their feet are going to get seriously tangled in less than a second.

Still, it's a cool painting.

And, apparently, the inspiration of a science fiction story. Which is another topic.

Sort-of-related post:

• "Where do Writers Get Their Ideas?"
  Drifting at the Edge of Time and Space (August 7, 2009)

Mary Cassatt: Impressionist Painter from Pennsylvania

"Google Doodle: Mary Cassatt"
examiner.com (May 22, 2009)

"Check out the Google Doodle of the day. Look familiar?

Google is celebrating the birth of the American impressionist painter Mary Cassatt with a Cassatt-inspired Google logo.

A fitting and lovely tribute to a woman whose tender yet unsentimental paintings of women and children...."

Mary Cassatt was born May 22, 1844, in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania. That's part of Pittsburgh now. She spent a lot of her adult life in France, near Paris, as artistic people were expected to do in those days.

Although she was conventional in that respect, she managed to step on a few toes with her paintings.

"Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)"
The Artchive

" '...Mary Cassatt especially liked children, doting on her nieces and nephews and the offspring of friends. Naturalism and sensuality of a pure, elemental, and nonsexual sort are the hallmarks of Cassatt's portrayals of childhood during the 1880s and 1890s. An example is Children on the Shore...

" 'The physicality in Cassatt's work seems to have made some uncomfortable. Eloquently capturing a moment between rest and play, Portrait of a Little Girl portrays the daughter of friends of Degas in an interior with Cassatt's dog. Cassatt submitted the painting to the American section of the 1878 Paris Exposition universelle: its rejection enraged her....' "

More:

• "Mary Cassatt"
  Art Encyclopedia
• Mary Cassatt
  Links to Commercial Galleries, and Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries
• "Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)"
  The Artchive
• "Mary Cassatt"
  Metropolitan Museum of Art
• "Cassatt, Mary"
  WebMuseum, Paris

Albert Bierstadt: Gallery of 19th Century Landscape Paintings

Albert Bierstadt Paintings Gallery

"Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 - February 18, 1902) was a German-American painter best known for his large landscapes of the American West. In obtaining the subject matter for these works, Bierstadt joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion. Though not the first artist to record these sites, Bierstadt was the foremost painter of these scenes for the remainder of the 19th century...."

There's a pretty good Bierstadt biography, and an eye-popping set of his complete works.

We've come a long way, since the days of Bierstadt. Today, you can stick a pipe in a box of facial tissues, and voilà! you've got art. (I'm not making that up, BTW.)

Although I think modern art is nothing to sneeze at, I do enjoy - and appreciate - the works of this landscape artist. Maybe you will, too.

A Little Art, a Little Text: Gump and Gandhi Holding Hands Delivers Daily

Gump and Gandhi Holding Hands
"Daily Art and random thoughts. See more colorful goodies at SimpleTermsArt.com."

Recent posts:

• "Daily Art 2/27/09 - Your inner weasel."
  (February 27, 2009)
  • 
    Your inner weasel.
  • "I am certain there are souls born into this world with only positive instincts. Creative, loving beings that seek only to heal the world and lift us all up. I am...."
• "Daily Art 2/26/09 - Accepting love."
  (February 26, 2009)
  • 
    Practice accepting love.
  • "We are, each of us, all living things - we are nothing more and nothing less than teeny tiny shining bits of God."

There you have it: art, delivered daily, with a little text. It reminds me of some of those thought-for-the-day services - but that "Your inner weasel" promises something a bit off the 50th percentile.

Picasso: Painting as "Sum of Destructions"

"Picasso's 'The Tragedy' "
"Metamorphosis of a Painting"
National Gallery of Art

" 'What comes out in the end is the result of the discarded finds.
"~ Pablo Picasso

"Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) often left visual clues on the surfaces of his paintings to suggest a hidden image underneath, as on The Tragedy of 1903. Artists frequently make changes to a painting or reuse a canvas or panel with an image...."

This is an interesting take on Picasso's paintings. Apparently, he didn't re-use canvasses several times (only) to save money, but as a part of his creative process.

Presumably whoever is writing for the National Gallery of Art has both oars in the water - so this is quite an interesting insight into how Picasso worked.

The Dreaming Tree: Cool Art Blog

"The Dreaming Tree"
"Where nature, dreams and art find a home."

"Most of the art & photos seen here are for sale. Posts including paintings (& in some cases, prints,) that are currently for sale are available here. E-mail...."

Another description of this is "The art, photography & dreams of Lana Gramlich. Also notes on these subjects & other natural sciences (astronomy, parklands, etc.) "


(from The Dreaming Tree, used without permission)
"Summer at the Lake"
8x10" acrylic on stretched canvas

Lana's BlogCatalog profile starts with: "Artist, amateur naturalist and astronomer. Long time dreamworker & Celtic researcher. "Real" job is at a local library. Finally married in '07, two days before my 40th birthday. I'm not cynical--I'm realistic...."

Now, it's my turn.

She's got a YouTube account, too (zqxzqxzqx).

Someone described Gramlich's art as "pretty pictures." True, but I'd go further than that. The paintings are fairly representational, but simplified depictions. I'll admit to a bias. Although I apparently live about a thousand miles away from Gramlich, the lands here in central Minnesota are quite a bit like what her art shows.

I'll probably be back to "The Dreaming Tree" - for the pictures, and to study how Gramlinch has been presenting her work.

Auguste Renoir Virtual Museum

Expo-Renoir.com
Painting of the Month

Right now, it's "A Girl with a Watering-Can / 1876."

This page is part of the Auguste Renoir virtual museum. Looks like a nice place to visit.