Artnotes: Italian Cloudbank

 

Drinking Angel at Freising    Laurie Pessemier  acrylic/canvas  11.5 x 8"  30 x 20 cm   110.00

“I want to write a funny Artnotes,” I tell Blair.  But nothing funny has happened for a while.  Maybe that’s not true.  Funny were the Nuns running a coffee shop out of an Airstream trailer this week, next door to the Basilica in Freising.  It was pouring rain and the two bruisers would dash out from a secure building to the Airstream, after which we dashed with our macchiati (the only good coffee we’ve had in almost a month) to the nearby pavilion to drink it.   And the church was DIVINE. From the Window at Murnau Laurie Pessemier  acrylic/canvas  12 x 12"  30 x 30 cm   385.00 Funny is Berlino walking up to other dogs who seem to think he’s invisible.  He approached a Labrador, even, who didn’t as much as bat an eyelash at Bernie’s big beautiful presence.  He tried a daschund: no dice.  These dogs were TRAINED to mind their own business.   A crestfallen Berlino ignored the next daschund and walked to the car.  Nuts. Flea Comb   Blair Pessemier  Acrylic/canvas 13 x 9"  33 x 22  385.00 Funny is driving to the wrong flea market.  We did that, last Saturday.   The flea market we go to is near a large horse farm.  There is a smell, and then the horses.  We walk toward the colorful booths, the cheerful banter.   The flea market we ended up at was the one at the old Olympics site – the efficient GPS picked up on the term flea market (never mind it wasn’t active this day), and not the one we last visited.  If that’s our biggest mistake on the trip, BRAVO! Horses by the Flea  Blair Pessemier  Acrylic/canvas  24 x 18"   61 x 46cm  490.00 Sometimes I like getting lost – that thrill of being mixed up.   It’s like wandering down a street, and finding a pigment store.  Yesterday, after visiting the Brandhorst museum, I walked across the road and voila, a store selling powdered paint pigments.   Flowers on Vintage Paper Laurie Pessemier Ink/paper  8.5  x 11" 21 x 29cm  120.00 each. The show, Five Friends, featured the work of Cy Twombly (a favorite), Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham (dance) and John Cage (music).   The group collaborated on many projects and was continually inspired by the same events from the 50s, 60s, 70s.   These were the stars of my own art education, and I looked at the work with nostalgic affection.  Inpirations like the man on the moon; the Kennedys; the giant jump into abstraction and beyond.  All of the art shows we have seen have been the result of a number of artists being at the same place in the same time and making “music”.    Funny Flippers  Laurie Pessemier  Acrylic/canvas 4.5 x 8"  11 x 20cm  75.00 It would be terrific to be in a throng of like-minded art people – in a way, the Salon attempts to do that, and there are some folks I feel right on with.   I can’t wait to start up the Salon again (it has been off for July), and maybe this fall do some outreach to increase our numbers.  Maybe we can even collaborate on projects or have a show together – the Italian Cloudbank? The Silver Lining   Blair Pessemier  Acrylic/canvas 10.5 x 16"  27 x 41cm  385.00 HOUSEKEEPING:  We make art to order, including portraits by Blair Pessemier. Follow us on Instagram @lauriepessemier See all of our painting at https://paintfox.com Most of our work is available as reproductions, custom sized and framed. sign up for Artnotes, our weekly art missive, by contacting me at lfpessemier@gmail.com or https://mailchi.mp/341f508cecf8/artnotes