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A Sense of Place
There are certain places, like
certain people,
We know that we have known always;
Even at our very first encounter,
We speak as familiar friends.
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painting for an enlarged view.
Old Shiloh |
Cataloochee |
All great art is praise. - John Ruskin
Windrows |
St. Blaise Lane |
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Spring Plowing |
The rhetorician would deceive his neighbors,
The sentimentalist himself;
While art is but a vision of reality
- W.B. Yeats
August Water |
Haying on Dry Fork |
Every country where the sun shines and every district in it, has a
theme of its own.
The lights, the atmosphere, the aspect, the spirit, are all
different;
But each has its native charm.
- Winston Churchill – Painting As A Pastime
Poppa’s Old Place |
Sideview |
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Up the Creek |
Safe Harbor |
Plato believed that as humans we lived as in a dark cave, facing the
back wall, onto which flickering shadows were cast by the bright
light outside. These were but faint inklings of the true reality
that lives outside the cave; we debate endlessly their meanings.
What we call a tree is but an imperfect and corrupted image of Tree.
The artist, open to
the sense of place, attempts to capture its true reality. This has
been sometime known as The Spirit of the Place or the Genius Loci.
Earlier cultures knew it but modern man has largely discarded it in
favor of utility. The insatiable hunger of the bulldozer grinds down
the spirit of place, and we await the next shopping mall to fill our
time.
The artist has not a
moment to waste.
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