Image at left: Pine Trees Against a Red Sky with Setting Sun, c. November 1889, Saint-Rémy Van Gogh seemed to be enjoying his time working outside, even though the fall mistral have arrived. The mistrals are a cold, dry wind, lasting only a few days at a time, that sweep down the Rhone valley from [...]
castaneda/reiman At Baer Ridgeway
Still Life Landscape is an exhibition of new works by castaneda/reiman. Charlie Castaneda and Brody Reiman make objects that live in installations. For Still Life Landscape, castaneda/reiman have chosen a dozen anonymous landscape paintings from their personal, longtime collection as the source material and foundation for new works. Sculpture behaves as painting, presenting an encounter [...]
Art History: Vincent Van Gogh 1888 Arles
Image at left: The Drawbridge at Arles with a Group of Washerwomen, c. April 1888 Van Gogh wrote to Theo about not being comfortable because of the winds and the cold, but also about the splendor of the south and how he already felt better for having left Paris. Today I brought back a canvas [...]
Art History: Vincent Van Gogh 1888 Arles
Image at left: Blossoming (Souvenir De Mauve) Van Gogh wrote to Theo about the winds, and that in order to paint out in the open, he has to drive pegs into the ground and tie his easel to them … there are three windy days for everyone that is quiet. Vincent dedicated this painting of [...]
Chinati At Sunset
The Chinati Foundation invites everyone to an evening viewing of Donald Judd’s 100 works in mill aluminum and 15 works in concrete on Friday, November 26 from 5:30 – 6:30 PM. Admission is $5, free for museum members and local residents. For more information contact Ann Marie Nafziger, amnafziger@chinati.orgor 432 729 4362. The Chinati Foundation [...]
Photo Of The Day: Sainte-Victoire
Sainte-Victoire juts out of the Provencal landscape, far enough to make it seen for kilometers, impossible to ignore. If Cezanne hadn’t made this mountain famous in his paintings, someone else surely would have. The photograph to the left was taken on the day that I visited Jardin de les Lauves, the spot where Cezanne took [...]
Riding Across The Desert
We are shooting across the planet in a white hermetically sealed Honda with the windows rolled up and the skylight firmly attached. The air-conditioning is at full-throttle as we wind our way across the western landscape. Even when we gain altitude and the air cools, the windows remain closed and the air-conditioning on. Only at [...]
Survey: Where Is Your Favorite Baja Landscape?
One of the things that amazed me about Baja, even before landing at the Loreto airport, was the landscape. I was on my first trip not only to Baja, but to Mexico, and even though I had looked at photographs from the mid-peninsula, I still had no idea what to expect. Looking out the window [...]
Sainte-Victoire
Climbing the hill, walking past the studio of Cezanne and on to the Chemin de la Marguerite, I continued walking until I reach la colline de le Jardin de les Lauves – The Garden on the Hill at Les Lauves. Finally reaching the entrance to the park, I realized that my climb was not yet [...]
