Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.

Louis Kahan
Barbara Hepworth, Theatre Sister (study of drapery) (1949) 18 x 12 in © Bowness, Hepworth Estate
Barbara Hepworth in Paris with Henry Moore and Edna Ginesi (later Mrs Coxon), Photograph by Raymond Coxon © Bowness, Hepworth Estate http://venicebiennale.britishcouncil.org/people/id/102/image/426
artmastered: Doves by Barbara Hepworth, 1927. Hepworth’s Modernist style is similar and inspired by the work of British sculptor and household name Henry Moore, though Moore’s work eclipsed Hepworth’s throughout her career. I am not a fan of modern sculpture, but there’s something about Doves that I love. I think its the way their heads are cosied into their smooth bodies. It’s abstract but not angular, so the forms are still clear and recognisable.
    in a mood for farewell
farewell!
the wild geese
revenio: IMGP7300 (by Blurbism )
By yama-bato - Orleans,France,2011
Romanian painter, lithographer and photographer present at the Crimean War (1854-1856) He is considered the world’s first combat photographer as he took pictures in the battlefield, during the first year of the Russian-Turkish War, later known as the Crimean War (1853-1856). Carol Pop de Szathmari was born in Cluj (Klausenburg, or Kolozsvár), Transylvania, on 11 January 1812. He was of noble descent and one can still find his ancestors’ coat-of-arms preserved at the Reformed Church in Cluj. He read law at the Reformed College in his hometown, Cluj. His talent for painting shone out from an early age; this artistic calling proved stronger and he was soon to give up his law career and devote himself to painting. For a short time Szathmari attended the Fine Arts Academy in Vienna; he then turned to a bohemian lifestyle, gaining more knowledge from travel exploits than from his professors.   Being a passionate traveller, Szathmari journeyed through Europe and often crossed the Carpathian Mountains to visit Wallachia and its capital Bucharest, where he eventually settled in 1843. A leading artist in a country with few, if any, gifted local painters, Szathmari was flooded with commissions in the 1840s and 1850s. An accomplished landscape and portrait painter, at ease with both watercolours and oil paints, Szathmari obtained commissions from the wealthy Wallachian boyars (noblemen). A dashing young man, elegantly dressed, fluent in Romanian, German, French and Italian, the painter became valued company in the high-society circles of Bucharest. The self-portrait he took a few years later, showing the artist standing in front of his easel, pallete and brushes in hand, surrounded by his art collections, gives a clear indication of his success…(http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/photographer/Carol__Szathmari/A/) http://www.answers.com/topic/szathmari-carol-pop-de-2 via     Carol Szathmari The Stavropoleos Church n.d.   Albumen print Library of the Romanian Academy  http://1815-1918.blogspot.com/2010/07/more-by-carol-szathmari.html Szathmary, Carol Popp de ~. Hanul lui Manuc
Carol Szathmari Princess Maritzica Bibescu 1845   Miniature 11,7 x 8,7 cm   Library of the Romanian Academy
Persistent Light: Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi and George Mukai

http://www.apa.nyu.edu/gallery/persistentlight/intro.html

Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi (1921 2008) A great Modernist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY80reY-RCQ

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