Wednesday, January 27, 2010

It may well be time to make the transition from Lugares Sueltos to a new blog, КУСОК ХЛЕБА (that's Russian for "a piece of bread..."), where for now the painting posts will continue...

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Alice (Russian Fields)



This began, oddly enough, with a copy of one of Leonid Pasternak's paintings--a very Russian scene with four young men seated around a table--each one in his own psychological reverie--reading, contemplating... The original has a fine sense of atmosphere--the modeled grays of the walls, a touch of pink ochre and raw sienna--the whites of their shirts shifting from warm to cool. But the liquid quality of the painting didn't come though, and I found myself eliminating figures--until all that remained was the young man on the left, seated, with a book... Gradually transposed into the figure of my mother (the 15th of January being her birthday)...the way I remember her (is that the word--it has more to do with a sense of gesture, really) also seated, reading, contemplating...

Alice...