Are you a romantic?

Moonglow

10×10 inch 

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Happy February everyone.  Time is marching on in 2017 and it feels like it is marching at a faster pace than usual. I think that means I must be getting older. Even though I have a sense of time flying by I find the artist in me is slowing down more and more to engage thoughtfully in my creative process and to ponder what my art means to me and why I am so passionate about the arts. One subject I often paint is the moon. Ever since I was a small child I have been in love with the moon. This is not unusual as most children find the moon both fascinating and somewhat magical as it moves across the sky. It teases our imagination when we see it as a crescent moon and then it appears in a few weeks as a full moon or a super moon. I have never out grown this love affair with the moon. Indeed I am a romantic at heart. This awareness of being a romantic has led me to discover a Russian painter of Armenian decent, Ivan  Aivazovsky ( 1817-1900). Ivan was one of Russia’s greatest painters. He is well known for his seascapes which display powerful scenes of light and dark as they collide across the storm tossed waters of the earth. Ivan was a notable and prolific painter of the Romantic era. By the time of his death he painted over 6,000 works. Now that is prolific. If you google his work you will be amazed and his mastery of light and dark.

Ivan  Aivazovsky

Micro Mystery #16 revealed

Sorrow Of The King

Henri Matisse

 

Sorrow of The King was Henri Matisse’s final self portrait. It was inspired by the story of David playing his harp for king Saul. It is considered one of Matisses finest cutout works. The black guitar is a symbol for Henri before his approaching death in 1952.