Thursday, November 25, 2021

A View of the Growing Diversity of Art (Part 4: A Visit to an Art Gallery)

 Part 4: A Visit to an Art Gallery 

 "We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity." 
-  Desmond Tutu. 

Paintings by Dr Abe V Rotor

Primordial universe 

“When we try to pick out something by itself, we find it hitched to everything
else in the universe.” – John Muir.

Leaf skeletons

“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.”
– Joseph Campbell.

Moon in two faces above the trees

“Trees give peace to the souls of men.” - Nora Waln

Where has the painter gone?

We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Living star

“It doesn’t matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.” 
– Jackson Pollock

Colorful arthropods

“We dream in colors borrowed from the sea.” – Unknown

Forest under the sea 

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A school of maya-maya 

“The physical universe and its buzzing machinery,
it's fantastical scenery.” ― Laura Kasischke.

 
Earth chandelier - before and after glow

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.” - Rachel Carson

Thorny cherry

“This is a cardboard universe, and if you lean too long or too heavily against it, you fall through.” - Philip K. Dick.

Bouquet to wreath

“Flowers don’t tell, they show.” – Stephanie Skeem

Old bouquet 

“A painting is worth a thousand confused art-gallery visitors.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

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