{"id":16891,"date":"2018-06-10T23:28:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T03:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quiltr.com\/?p=16891"},"modified":"2018-06-10T23:28:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T03:28:24","slug":"sunday-at-the-clark-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=16891","title":{"rendered":"Sunday at The Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went over to see the new exhibit at the Clark: Women Artists in Paris, 1850-1900<\/a> and had a good time looking at the paintings. First off, they are, as a whole, much larger than you might expect. I will have to do more reading about this – maybe it’s what people who’ve been to real painting school do. <\/p>\n

I took down this quote, her reflection on being an artist after returning to her homeland of Finland (where she did not exhibit for a decade):<\/p>\n

How right you were when you wrote about museum men, critics. They kill everything that is your own, beautiful and alive, and take what is already a success. The little and poor just paint and struggle, they can die unless they love their work, then they live, rather briefly, yet forever.
\n\u2014 Helene Schjerfbeck, 1919<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After enjoying the exhibit, I took some paint supplies up the hill and painted awhile.. There were a lot of people around and they came and went frequently. Many people commented on the little bit of trash that someone had left in the sculpture\/building we were in, the Crystal, but no one picked it up to carry down the hill; I did though when I left. If there had been a broom handy, it needed a good sweeping out of all the rocks that kids bring with them.<\/p>\n

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Then it was off to have dinner with Mom and that was the end of my travels for the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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