I love big, fat, vividly pigmented flowers. I also love big, fat, vividly pigmented lips; I wear red lipstick to take out the trash, have since I was a teenager. But back to the fleurs.
Springtime in Wisconsin is, for me, bittersweet, because on the surface it is startlingly lovely, but my visceral reaction to this physically pretty environment is just as startling in an entirely opposite way. I have found that the most powerful and authentic art comes out of people from a place of discomfort, even anguish, and pain of many kinds, so it has to be a good thing.
Keeping things simple is a challenge for me. Today I am finding inspiration in nature (I cannot believe I just said that) to pare it all down.
Madison photographer Janis Nussbaum Senungetuk possesses not only the coolest last name ever, but also a gift for capturing light on nature’s loveliest and simplest. To wit: her photograph, “Glowing Tulips” shown above.
More of her work, along with that of many other Wisconsin artists whose work is focused on nature’s finest in America’s Dairyland, can be found at www.portalwisconsin.org.
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Dear Miss Arika: So much art is inspired by sunsets. I don’t like sunsets because they remind me of bad art. Is there something wrong with me?
- Confused in Baltimore
Dear Confused,
There is nothing wrong with you. I feel the same way. So if that’s wrong, I don’t wanna be right.
And yet, the colors in sunsets sure are purty. For non-visual artists like me, sometimes I just like to marvel at mama nature when I’m at my wit’s end. Unfortunately the world is lousy with crappy sunset-inspired art. However, there is hope;
If you need to look at some really good art, may I suggest http://www.julianiederman.com?
Hope this helps.
AC