My Experience with Impressionism: Gateway to Modern Art

        My Experience with Impressionism:

Gateway to Modern Art

"Either deep or shallow the skill,

that artists miss or fill. 

Art  like a restless moving wheel,

will never truly fulfil. " - avr

Dr Abe V Rotor

Fish Shroud

I rubbed some paint all over a glass relief of fish, 

wrapped it with linen while the paint 

was still fresh - and pronto! a shroud of a fish.

Butterfly Remains

I soaked some leaves with shades of green,  

 pressed them on canvas while fresh;

I wanted to create at the center a bird's nest;

instead, butterfly remains can be seen.

 Rainbow Forever

Beauty is ephemeral, I know I cannot defy,

but on canvas artists deny.

One day I painted rainbow in perpetual motion,

 at the end I had to resign.   

Crater 

I flew over Mayon and  this is the view

I saw through a misty window;

I recreated it from imagination 

And this is a clearer vision.

Living Pillars

What makes Parthenon a perfect architecture,

I wonder.

If temple of worship, I imagined trees in a forest,

Nature's wonder.

Fungus

Growing outward, dying in the center, 

after its bloom,

like a city expanding beyond its limit,

to final doom.

Monster in the deep

I've searched the monster of my childhood;

I created it on canvas with all its likelihood. 

The Eye

An eye in the deep is 

 enough to scare;

whose eye matters not, 

  artists dare to stare. 

Ancient fern evolved from a lowly moss 

Evolution's missing link is a mystery,

alga, moss to fern across a boundary:

 one-cell to multi-cell, how could that be? 

primate to human, we ask if there's any?

Ancient fowl evolved from Archaeopteryx

 Remains and remnants of natural history,

easy to draw and paint  as they are;

But to re-create them alive in their own time,

is more than reckoning them from afar.

Forest Fire

Fire of death, fire of life;

fire of life, fire of death;

 cycle sans beginning

nor ending.  

Composite Fish 

Either deep or shallow the skill,

that artists miss or fill. 

Art  like a restless moving wheel

will never truly fulfil. ~