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Repository 195: Great Landscape Art | The Unicorn of Contemporary Genres

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Repository 195: Great Landscape Art | The Unicorn of Contemporary Genres

Years ago while studying in Italy I had an assignment to paint a landscape over the course of a week. I dutifully packed my equipment and took a bus to some random hilly spot in Sienna. I remember sitting on the hillside, earnestly attempting an al fresco painting that lay before me. I spent hours at that spot, attempting to address and define the rows of olive trees, the variations of green and the utter beauty of it all. At…
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Repository 56: Fashion in the Sky, Art in the Street

Inside the Chanel purse mobile art pavilion. Image courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects. En route to NYC this week I decided to read a book titled, The Gospel According to Chanel. I did this for several reasons – it’s a local author (Karen Karbo, Portland), I was indirectly preparing myself for the Impressionism, Fashion, Modernity show I just saw at the Met, and I am going to a party with a fashionable set tomorrow, actual designers of fashion so I…
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