My First Art Lesson

As promised, here is the first art lesson I’ve ever taught. Seven elements of yesterday’s living art gallery that made it distinct and memorable:

 

1)   The painting themselves, created by international artists invited to contribute and mostly low-key in putting their names to their work, were a stunning variety of styles, evoking artists as diverse as Picasso, Chagall, Matisse, Braque, Diego Rivera, Richard Diebenkorn and more. 

                                        Evocative of Diego Rivera.

2)   Zooming in with my camera to isolate a section of the image created a feeling of several distinct works within one painting.

The whole painting.

A close up, evocative of Diebenkorn.

3)   The integration of the paintings with the exterior walls of the house where they were displayed.    

A painting incorporating a real window.

Real flowers in the window and painted below.

4)   The exquisite aesthetics of the houses themselves part of the total effect. 

 

Also note a touch of Chagall here.

5)   The larger frame of the Dolomite Mountains behind the whole scene. 

 

Didn’t get a photo of a painting with mountains behind, but here’s one from the village.

6)   The integration with the village as a whole, as if it were a normal part of the daily life rather than a precious, separate piece of “art.” All so low key, with no other tourists there, no admission price and as mentioned, the artists’ names downplayed. 

7)   All of the above.

 

Apologies that I don’t have my art teacher wife writing this lesson, but she’s off in town looking for gelato and perhaps it’s interesting to get the non-artist perspective.