Monet's Garden in Giverny, France
June 2013
Three weeks in Europe, tracing the footsteps of
Van Gogh, Gaughin, Cezanne, Monet, Rembrandt, Vermeer, and others ...
viewing their paintings and in many cases standing in
the very same places where those paintings were created ...
the power of their masterpieces' beauty still resonates ...
these artists simply painted what was there in their worlds, but isolated
small pieces of their realities - the simple beauty of an uncle's face, a neighborhood fence and tree, a kitchen bowl, a passing train ...
and by framing each everyday image
captured in paint the perfection of the ordinary
that we tend to miss by
perhaps never being fully present.
"All through eternity
Beauty unveils It's exquisite form
in the solitude of nothingness ..."
~ Rumi
