Simple is as Simple Becomes

 Mark Rothko at the Portland Museum will always have me believing complex can be simple. These color field paintings continue to impress me especially when I'm at the printing table and see the color shifts that mixing dye can do. As well as driving home that abstraction is swell, and enough.

Art Imitates Life

A visit to the Portland Museum of Art and the David Hockney show brought this juxtaposition. I asked the visitor if I could take his picture, and gosh, it's just like David was here himself. Life keeps doing this -- bringing me these dual images. 
 

Seeing Dots

I started the day thinking about a lecture I'm set to give about motifs. So, I started collecting dots. These hit me when I visited the Portland Museum's exhibit on the Nabis. Right smack in the middle is a scarf with polkas. Dots galore!
 

Summer Long Ago

 A visit to the Portland Museum of Art (this last week) and a glance at Wolf Kahn's "High Summer 1972" had me thinking first at the heat and quiet of the land, but now, reflecting back to where I was at that time. I prefer to remember the smell of the field, and the warmth of the sun.

Portland Museum of Art

A new installation on American Realism is at the Portland Art Museum, and a stop there today reminded me why I so love doing this. Some were old friends, some new. The bronze of two very touching figures is by an artist who's label was elusive, so sorry I can't share. 

Fallen Fruit

A quick stop in the Portland Art Museum today to see "Paradise" a two person installation from Fallen Fruit (David Burns and Austin Young) that uses the permanent collection as narrative for western expansion, biblical themes on the garden of eden, links with Native American Art, and then some. You'd have to see it to believe it.