Sitting in looking at rain on vacanes

Morning Rain by Tu Fu

A slight rain comes, bathed in dawn light.
I hear it among treetop leaves before mist
Arrives. Soon it sprinkles the soil and,
Windblown, follows clouds away. Deepened

Colors grace thatch homes for a moment.
Flocks and herds of things wild glisten
Faintly. Then the scent of musk opens across
Half a mountain -- and lingers on past noon.

Jpr:   Suspect great tree poems must be so inspired.

Name the dog

follansbee, backyard, circa 1980

"chien, jardin , buisson" acrylic, 11 x 15 "

Was ma s dog ‘zero’

Majestic!

Millau Viaduct France is 909 feet in height making it the tallest bridge in the world  of its kind.

paper cut flowers

Jpr : made snow flakes with scissors as a kid but not the like of these!

Forged rothko painting

ZHITTY FAKE ROTHKO SELLS FOR 8.3 MILLION DOLLARS

Domenico De Sole took the stand in U.S. District Court in Manhattan recently, testifying in front of the fake Rothko that he purchased at the Knoedler Gallery in 2004 for $8.3 million. De Sole, along with his wife, is suing Knoedler, its former president Ann Freedman, and the gallery’s holding company 8-31 for $25 million in damages.

janurary

"Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow."  
-  Robert Frost,

Art

‘The more words there are on a gallery wall next to a picture, the worse the picture.’  - Flaubert

microsculptures

on the head of a pin

It began when I was five years old,” says Willard. “I started making houses for ants because I thought they needed somewhere to live. Then I made them shoes and hats. It was a fantasy world I escaped to. That’s how my career as a micro-sculptor began.”

Willard Wign’s micro-sculptures are now so minute that they are only visible through a microscope. Each piece commonly sits within the eye of a needle, or on a pin head. The personal sacrifices involved in creating such wondrous, yet scarcely believable pieces are inconceivable to most. Willard enters a meditative state in which his heartbeat is slowed, allowing him to reduce hand tremors and sculpt between pulse beats. Even the reverberation caused by outside traffic can affect Willard’s work. Consequently, he often works through the night when there is minimal disruption.

image of Saturn"s rings

Some cosmic art

The variation in the colour of the rings arises from the differences in their composition. Turquoise-hued rings contain particles of nearly pure water ice, whereas reddish rings contain ice particles with more contaminants.

art?

by jpr

Log art

Any thing is fair game!

That tree stump ......art

hair art

me luvs it

Ice art from nature

Soap suds art

Beautiful ..but who has time to create these things?

All in need art

Me likes it!  Although illegal in many ways.

Next to last Pieta

As he neared death at age 85, Michelangelo could no longer sleep at night.  He produced this work with his face on Nicodemus and his long best friend in life, Vittoria Calonna's face on the Madonna.

Pieta(s) by Michelangelo

 Created when the artist was 21 yrs ..the only work he ever signed.
His interest was in beauty.

Done in later years at age 87...his interest was in religion. He died about 89.

girl wearing a pearl earring

  Scarlett Johansson stars as Griet, a young 17th-century servant in the

         household of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer (played by Colin Firth)

          at the time he painted Girl with a Pearl Earring (1665) in the city of

         Delft in Holland.

           jpr: The acting is pure excellence. Most enjoyable film!

                 

                                          

  

rothko paintings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVYDbeljUww

jpr: It took 40+ years to develop his style. Considered among the greats such as
Rembrandt.