Adobe on the bay

Adobe on the bay features distinct swaths of white, blue and green, and obscured rainbow moiré patterns. With its jagged, but even edges, it is decidedly removed from any notion of a canvas.  In this digitally manipulated image, my intend was to infer the calmness of our adobe in the little paradise on earth the bay of Porto Rafti, which has a landscape known for its blue sea, blue skies and expansive vistas.

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La Rumba Supermarket

Thomas Cole presents in JAMA the artwork of the Cuban American painter Emilio Sánchez (1921-1999) who is known for his sharply defined patterns of light and shadow on the houses, storefronts, and skyscrapers. Untitled, Bronx Storefront, “La Rumba Supermarket” is a painting of a New York grocery store with Cuban characteristics that is exhibited at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC. One can find on many street corners in the city of New York, bodegas with colorful awnings and window ads that sell convenience items to regular customers from local neighborhoods. The grocery in Sánchez’ painting is larger than most bodegas—large enough to host a party in the late afternoon. Seen dimly in the doorway of the grocery is a crowd of people standing close together, possibly dancing. The name of the store, La Rumba, refers to a style of music and dance that originated in Cuba in the 19th century. The most popular rumba dance, the guaguancó, is a flirtation: the woman’s role is to wave her skirt in time with the music to entice her man, but when he moves in closer she dances away.

Winter Landscape

The Winter Landscape was painted by John Hardrick (1891-1968) an American painter who was influenced by the work of Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh, and adopted their impressionist style with its emotional sense of color. 

He favored the picturesque environs of Brown County, south of Indianapolis, Indiana, where he found woodlands and waterways.

In Winter Landscape, all seems pristine in this fantasy-like snowscape, with decaying twigs and leaves on the forest floor well concealed in a serene setting by the snow.

Likewise one may find tranquility and life free from stress and pain, perhaps in a rustic cabin nestled in a peaceful wood or in the rhythm of waves in a remote lighthouse up on a high cliff at water’s edge.

Winter Landscape, by John W Hardrick, 1945. Courtesy of the Indianapolis Museum of Art (http://www.imamuseum.org/)

Modified from an article at JAMA