I love your Flowers for Friday. Today's callas remind me of an O'Keefe painting. Are you inspired by her?
I remember one critic/painter asking her why she painted her flowers so big? Her reply was, "Why do you paint your rivers so small?" O'Keefe took her flowers to the point of abstraction. She made us see these in a different way, don't you agree?
Like Amélie Poulain, my life is all about the littlest pleasures: the freshest, pinkest raspberries; the deep blue of a Vermeer painting; the perfect crispness of a glass of Prosecco; the divine simplicity of an afternoon at the beach; the heavenly scent of a vanilla bean. Here I blog to celebrate the good life, la dolce vita, la belle vie. Cherish life's petits plaisirs and enrich your daily existence.
You should know that I take liberties with grammar, punctuation, & diction. Do not fear! I assure you I've been educated about the woes of abundant comma usage or the impropriety of ending a sentence with a preposition. Here, as this is not my dissertation, I write as I talk. I also make up words on occasion.
"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast." -Ernest Hemingway
I love your Flowers for Friday. Today's callas remind me of an O'Keefe painting. Are you inspired by her?
ReplyDeleteI remember one critic/painter asking her why she painted her flowers so big? Her reply was, "Why do you paint your rivers so small?"
O'Keefe took her flowers to the point of abstraction. She made us see these in a different way, don't you agree?
Your flowers brightened my day.
ReplyDeleteJust the right POP of pink on my screen
and I feel happy!