Red Canna

Red Canna, 1920. Georgia O'Keeffe. Watercolor on paper, 19 x 13". Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven CT.

"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to see a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not." - Georgia O'Keeffe.

Bob Dylan Drawings

Brussels 2007

House of Union Street, 2007

Tabletop

View from 2 Windows, 2007

"Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for anyone but to inspire them?" -Bob Dylan

I just love the view points and perspectives Bob Dylan chooses when drawing interior and exterior scenes. It figures he would be good at art too! Some people have so many gifts!

Friday Quote

Things That Go Bump In The Night. 1990. Oil on canvas, 70 x 42"

Plantains in a Box. 1969. Oil on canvas. 44 x 44"

Skowhegan Water Glasses. 1973. Oil on canvas, 42 x 40".

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Janet Fish is great at finding something sublime in the ordinary. The plantains and water glasses are nice examples. Her object-filled vignettes are also stunning and lead the eye through to page over and over again!

Painting by my 5 year old son.

"When I'm out of red, I use blue." - Pablo Picasso

Art Makes Life...

Inscape I, by Mary Frank. Acrylic and oil on board, 1997. 48 x 96 ". Private Collection

Reach by Mary Frank. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 1997. 68 x 48". Collection of Joseph DeVernay.

'It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.' Henry James - Letter to HG Wells, July 1915.

Miro Quote

Miro

In his studio

Joan Miro outside his studio

"The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. I'm overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon, or the sun." - Joan Miro

Evening Star V, 1917. Watercolor, 9 x 12 in.

'...The evening star would be high in the sunset sky when it was still broad daylight. That evening star fascinated me. It was in some way very exciting to me. My sister had a gun, and as w walked she would throw bottles into the air and shoot as many as she could before they hit the ground. I had nothing but to walk into nowhere and the wide sunset space with the star. ' - Georgia O'Keeffe.

Quote taken from the book: Georgia O'Keeffe, (1976) published by Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc.

Improvising

Girl at Sewing Machine, 1921- Fundacion Coleccion Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Compartment C, Car 293, 1938. IBM Corporation, Armonk, NY.

"More of me comes out when I improvise." - Edward Hopper

Mystery

Painting, 1946 by Francis Bacon. Oil and pastel on linen. 6'5" x 4'4". MOMA , New York.

"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. " Francis Bacon

Quote by Dorothea Lange

Kitchen Sink

"One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind," said Dorothea Lange. "To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking. I have only touched it, just touched it."

***I'll be gone for a few days but back on Monday, happy weekend!***

Maurice Denis

The Muse, 1893. Oil on canvas. 67 x 56 in. Musee de Orsay, Paris.

"All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere." - Maurice Denis

Inner Child

Self-portrait by Joni Mitchell from the cover of Dreamland CD.

"You've got to keep the child alive; you can't create without it." - Joni Mitchell