In the Footsteps of Creativity and Beauty
Laura Basha
Photo By: Laura Basha
Monet’s Garden in Giverny,
France | June 2013
Three weeks in Europe, tracing the footsteps of Van Gogh, Gaughin, Cezanne, Monet, Rembrandt, Vermeer, and others …
viewing their paintings and in many cases standing in the very same places where those paintings were created …
the power of their masterpieces’ beauty still resonates …
these artists simply painted what was there in their worlds, but isolated small pieces of their realities – the simple beauty of an uncle’s face, a neighborhood fence and tree, a kitchen bowl, a passing train …
and by framing each everyday image captured in paint the perfection of the ordinary that we tend to miss by perhaps never being fully present.