must skip this week
Dear Viewers, due to a death in my family, I will not be able to post this week, as I am out of town. I will be back next Monday, so please return. I will try and find something exciting and wonderful to show you. Pat
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Egon Schiele, "Port of Trieste"
Future of this blog is in question as I may have to take off a few weeks for my viewership is down for the summer. Also, this past week I lost a dear viewer, but, at the present, as long as I have images to show and my dear friend, Char is still with me this blog will go on. I have showed you a Egon Schiele (1990-1918) landscape before this one, but it has been a while. I am not drawn to a large majority of his work, but his landscapes are always a unique experience. This one attracted my attention because of the color and then the media. It is an oil and pencil on cardboard. Give that some thought. Today's cardboard is not considered a suitable surface to work on or even mount a paper on because of the acidity, but hopefully in 1907 cardboard was constructed differently. I do not work in oils. It is a marvelous media but it does have a distinctive odor and it takes months for it ...
Ansel Adams, "The Tetons and the Snake River"
I have always considered art photography a beautiful and mysterious means of expression. It's biggest problem is that unlike many other forms of Art, photograph is often used for a wide variety of purposes, so the pure Art does get lost, tossed and mixed up in advertising, self promotion, and a host of other things. This is not necessary bad, but simply only a product of it's success. When a painter selects his/her subject, sketches are made and vistas can be arranged and rearranged to suit the all important composition. A photographer does not have that luxury. When Ansel Adams (1902-1984) took this photo he didn't just reach in his pocket and whip out his phone. I have no idea how far he walked to see this landscape, but realize, it was necessary for him to set up a tripod, connect the large, heavy viewfinder camera to it, determine the correct camera settings, and then wait for the natural lighting...