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I just had to drop a Kenneth Clark Note!
anhaga Started conversation Oct 27, 2010
I'm just reading the last chapter of 'The Nude' and I was stricken in a very personal way by this statement:
'no man of imagination can tread the soil of Campania without feeling the nearness of paganism and the eternal freshness of its art . . .'
Considering the series of little paintings which, like a summons from my youthful time treading the soil of Cmapania (and digging in the soil of Lucania) started me on this new career in the second half of my life, I'm sure you can imagine how Clark's statement struck me.
BTW, I'm taking part in a wee show next month at http://www.sideshowgallery.ca/ and just a few evenings ago a very dear neighbour commissioned me to do a secret portrait of her family (mere, pere and three kids) on the shores of Cold Lake http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=cold+lake+alberta&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&hl=en&hq=&hnear=Cold+Lake,+Division+No.+12,+Alberta&ll=54.464451,-110.181885&spn=0.363163,1.352692&t=h&z=10 (I'm addicted to GoogleMaps
) for Christmas.
Really, it's all because I trod the soil of Cam;pania (and Lucania) all those years ago.
I just had to drop a Kenneth Clark Note!
Effers;England. Posted Oct 27, 2010
Yes I can understand what his statement meant to you. It's rather wonderful when one stumbles upon things unexpectedly like that, that have such personal resonances.
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