I love following a trail. Perhaps in a past life I was Hansel or Gretel?
Fellow blogger C.B. Wentworth recently wrote about finding composer Rob Simonsen after hearing his music on an iPhone commercials. She heard the music, looked it up online and discovered a new favorite thing. Follow the path, find something new.
I’ve been following a lot of paths lately as I search out bibliography references for a book I’m writing: Google Books and Amazon, the Gutenberg Project and obscure scanned documents from the Center for Jewish History. We humans sure do leave A LOT of breadcrumbs!
Those trails often lead back here, to this blog. Like C.B., I find treasures and want to share them with all of you!
This week’s wanderings led me to Will Barnet, an American painter and print maker known for beautifully stylized images in rich, subdued colors. His style shifted from realism to abstraction and back, with obvious influence from a great number of more popular painters.
Barnet passed away in November 2012 at the age of 101. His life story, as illustrated in a New York Times obituary, tells the story of a man who also seemed to appreciate the magic of following a trail of inspiration.
• Take a look at some of his work here.
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©2013, Jen Payne
IMAGE: Barnet, Will. Sanctum, 1976.
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I like a lot of them: Aurora, Child Reading, Idle Hands and more (not all).
I especially like the one you chose. I don’t know if it’s the colors. I just like it. I’m no art critic, don’t know anything much about it, but I know what I like. Thanks for another trial ride. 😉
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Didn’t he do some amazing work? It was fun to browse through his work. Like you, I enjoy his realistic ones more so than his abstract work. Did you see the kitties?
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Yes! Anticipation looks just like our Phoenix sitting there like that. I’ll have to find the pic I have that reminds me just of that one.
Love the cat sharing with the canary.
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I love the surprise that comes out of following trails of inspiration. Isn’t that the fun of good writing?
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Exactly!!
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I love where your path has led you. 🙂
p.s. Thanks for the mention. It was a silly post, but those little notes certainly inspired me. 🙂
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I love how you follow the things that catch your eye (ear). I think it’s what keep life interesting!
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