Thursday, July 11, 2013

In the Footsteps of Creativity and Beauty


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