- The sunset over a small harbor in Massachussets on a lazy summer day.
- Magnolia is on Cape Ann in Massachusetts, and one of my favorite places to visit.
- One of the real early harbingers of spring are the Trout Liliies with their bronze and green leaves and bright yellow flowers.
- Just like the dragon for the movie Pete’s Dragon, this one flies over Rockport, Massachusetts’ Bear Skin Neck.
- A tiny schooner, all ready for mounting on a sign
Discover more from Louis N. Carreras, Woodcarver
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
nice ones, Louis
Thanks!
You are welcome.
I saw a painter’s work today on the Artle game that you might like or already know. John Fredrick Kensett https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frederick_Kensett
I have seen lots of his work over the years.
I saw it today for the first time. I liked it.
I love that American School and Hudson River School style an awful lot. There is a sort of innocence to it that I find really appealing.
I personally don’t see anything wrong with a pretty picture depicting something someone loves. Obviously… 🤣 I read about him a bit this morning and he just painted scenes he loved. To me that is someone’s day and the frame is a window through which I can see it. I think that’s miraculous. I paint some weird stuff that people think is symbolic, it isn’t. We have thoughts, visions, memories that demand expression, too. That’s why I love Fellini so much. “Hello Fred, so what strange visions are percolating in your mind today that you must realize on film?” An artist acquaintance yammers at me all the time about why I paint reality. She has no idea what I’m painting.
The pretty pictures of those guys reflect a sort of innocence about the country that looked the other way on slavery, Native Americans, and the growing environmental destruction caused by industrialization. I think I like it because it’s really an alternate universe.
On another topic -Symbols. I did a lot of pen and ink and acrylic stuff in 1969 and 70. I was just painting, but this girlfriend kept on about the symbolism in my painting. In one, that I called the Aztec Sparrow ( a sort of Mesoamerican fantasy creature), she claimed that it was full of breasts ( I kid you not). Like you I was just painting. But critics are going to read into our work whatever they want. It’s what critics do, even if it os total drivel.
P.s. I like Fellini too.
I wonder if those paintings reflect innocence or their awareness of a vanishing world. Or maybe they were just painting the landscape. We will never know.
That is what critics do. It’s just so annoying. The ONLY person I blocked here on WP for NON-political reasons was a woman who kept doing that. I see her comments on a fellow artist’s posts and I admire him for being a far better person than I am. 🤣
P.S. We can’t all be Dadaists…
As in going GaGa for Dada?
🤣