Southern Culture and Art
Some of the South Mississippi Art Association painters at my workshop this weekend in Hattiesburg, MS. Art as a metaphor: Art is a metaphor for me, so I try to be honest with my work, wanting to describe my life though my paintings. It seems pretty intuitive to do this. My life seems pretty ordinary to me and I enjoy describing it in my landscape paintings. An example of that is in the finished painting that I did mostly in plein air out in our garden. I ended up naming the painting,"Coon Trap". You can read about it here. Soviet impressionists seemed to do that and they are some of my favorite artists . An architect at my show this weekend said the Russian impressionist's influence was apparent in some of my work and that I would probably enjoy reading the Russian art theory. I have a big book of the Soviet impressionists work but mainly I just look at the pictures. I may actually read it now to see if it describes a deeper theory behind it...besides...