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My child could paint this!

The Marla Olmstead Story

I remember childhood summers spent at the North Sea in Holland, mixing buckets of sand and water in just the right proportion…

• Art
• June 9, 2016
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Abstract Art is dead. Long live Abstract Art!

Paintings of Lee Musgrave

In 1940 the New Republic published an article written by Wyndham Lewis, a painter himself, with the title The End of Abstract Art. https://newrepublic.com/article/80125/the-end-abstract-art  This…

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• June 8, 2016
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Non-referential, huh?

Confusion reigns - but that's probably me

Written by the editors of the Encyclopedia Brittanica: “Abstract art, also called nonobjective art or nonrepresentational art, painting, sculpture, or graphic art in which the portrayal of things from the…

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• June 7, 2016
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Will I ever understand Abstract Art?

We will find out. Or not.

I know very little – really next to nothing – about abstract art. Sometimes I think that interferes with my appreciation of…

• Art, Garden Design
• June 6, 2016
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Oaks Bottom Nature Preserve

Oaks Amusement Park

We conclude this week’s explorations with a location close to home: Oaks Bottom, a 141 acres nature preserve with a lake, marshland and…

• Nature
• June 5, 2016
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Worpswede

A German Artist Colony

My grandmother Dora grew up as one of 11 children on a small holding in Lower Saxony; her parents worked the lands…

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• June 4, 2016
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Les Corbeaux

Bonus: Trompe L'Oeil at the Louvre

If memory can be trusted – and I wouldn’t, necessarily – the background of this montage was based on a photograph taken…

• Art, Nature
• June 3, 2016
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What ever happened to NEVER AGAIN?

Visit the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education

On December 17, 2012, the Simon Wiesental Center issued a travel advisory for Copenhagen and Denmark, following a warning by the Israeli…

• Art, Politics
• June 2, 2016
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Wide Open Spaces

The threat to public lands

Dufur, population 607, is a small hamlet south of The Dalles. I found those antelope skulls in a shop window, years in…

• Nature, Politics
• June 1, 2016
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Off the Beaten Path

Museo de Arte de Ponce

This week I decided to dig for some of my favorite montages in the archives as long as they were connected to…

• Art
• May 31, 2016
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