May all your chickies be well!
Acrylic on canvas board, Karin Gustafson, 2018, all rights reserved.
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Happy Mother’s Day
May 13, 2018Belated Happy Birthday Michelangelo Buonarroti! (With Elephant)
March 7, 2011
He'd be 535 today. You'll have to imagine the candles (and elephant.)
Errr…. actually that was yesterday (March 6th)…. I mean, the day before yesterday…. (Time flies at 535.)
Dissing Teachers- A Long Tradition (With Elephant)
March 2, 2011
The Death of Socrates by Jean-Louis David (with ManicDdaily)
Society has often been unfair to teachers. (But the current scapegoating is ridiculous.)
A Lotto Valentine
February 14, 2011
Happy Valentine's Day (Stay Dry!)
Dance I (With Elephant)
February 13, 2011
Yippee!
Matisse + ManicDDaily=?????
Saint Sebastian Gets Help (El Greco With Elephant)
February 10, 2011
"Got it!"
The sublime by El Greco, elephant by ManicDDaily.
(For more on paintings of Saint Sebastian and fine art with elephants, check out this!)
Elephantasm?
February 8, 2011
Really?
Attributed (minus elephant) to Juan de Valdez-Leal (1622-1690). Exhibited at Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA.
PS – there’s still time before Valentine’s Day to order “Going on Somewhere” by Karin Gustafson, Diana Barco, Jason Martin. Or, if you like elephants, try 1 Mississippi, a counting book for lovers of light and pachyderms.
Rembrandt Portrait With (By) Elephant
February 6, 2011
"This will take HOW long?"
“Art Appreciation”: You Can Find Them Anywhere. (Even Orleans?)
February 5, 2011
"Joan of Arc (With Elephant"), Jules Bastien-LePage (with Karin Gustafson) (At the Met.)
When I was a child, I was transfixed by this painting. First, I loved Joan of Arc; secondly, the surface is so smooth and photographic, it seemed inconceivable to me that it could have actually been painted. When you are little, you tend to be a sucker for technique. And drama. (Ah, drama!) And crazy eyes.
Here’s a poem inspired by it, and others of a slightly similar ilk. (Ah drama!)
Art Appreciation
Sebastian run with arrows pierced the halls,
reaming eye and mind’s eye too
with piteous wounds, his pale trunk
like the finest china except it dripped.
The visitor, a child, struggled to replace him with
inspired skin, a hand around a
candle, glow within,
(Georges de la Tour plunging in.)
Farther afield (a continent and several galleries away),
she found a Joan of Arc, whose eyes beamed
kaleidoscopically against Pre-Raphaelite bark,
a silvered willow. Caught
inside that psychedelic gleam,
she became a connoisseur.
(As always, all rights reserved.)
(Also as always, if you like poetry, check out “Going On Somewhere” by Karin Gustafson, Diana Barco, and Jason Martin on Amazon. If you like elephants, check out 1 Mississippi.)
Fine Art With Elephants
February 3, 2011
The sun is so bright through my window this morning as to block out almost everything shadowed and worrisome in my and the world. Which leads me to Fine Art. With Elephants.
Check out, if you haven’t seen them, the last few posts. A trip to the Metropolitan Museum has led, so far, to:
Cezanne with Elephant
Courbet with Elephant (and little white dog i,e, Pearl)!
I’m concerned that this is only the beginning. Have brush (or Brushes app), will elephant.
(For original fine art, check out the wonderful illustrations of Diana Barco in my new book of poetry “Going on Somewhere”, by Karin Gustafson, Diana Barco, and Jason Martin on Amazon. And buy it for someone for Valentine’s Day! It has lots of love poems and is cheaper, even, than reasonable chocolate.)
PS – I’m not quite sure why the links are different colors. (Agh.)
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