Sunset, Wednesday, 17 March 2010

William Theodore Van Doren. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 16 x 20.

A note on my previous post. The image of light being able to move fabric aside was inspired in part by the draperies of the disciples in Salvador Dali’s “The Sacrament of the Last Supper.”

Today of course everything’s supposed to be green. On my wonderful upside-down (southern hemisphere–oriented) wall map, the green countries include the U.S., France, Ukraine, Venezuela, Argentina, Namibia, Australia ... and Ireland, although Eire gets an olive shade rather than the vibrant green assigned to these other countries. Of course I must put in a plug for “The Green Barn.” But above all, because it’s essentially what I paint, I will cite time itself, ever green.

Sunset, Wednesday, 19 August 2009

Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on paper, 16 x 20.

In the vast museum gallery of the woods, walking with Flint, the sun through cloud cover skylight, I see art in reverse – Courbets and Corots, Constables, Sisleys, Homers and Sargents before they became these things. They started here, somehow. Even the most visionary Cézannes, the O’Keeffes, Dalis, Kandinskys, Rothkos, Warhols, Hockneys: What a room ...

Flint stops to drink from a stream, in the museum cafeteria.