Several years ago I did a series of shaped paintings that included earth day <\/a>imagery, and the theme was \u201ccaring for Mother Earth\u201d. Abstracted figures in various poses (submissive to empowered) were displayed in various positions with the planet Earth. Sharp angles of color depicting wind, rain, ice, water, soil, grass, and leaves cut through the background, the figures, and the earth shape. Obviously man and Mother Nature are intertwined, with man\u2019s level of responsibility to the planet implicit. Please see my PORTFOLIO, Shaped Paintings<\/a> to view my Four Seasons<\/em> series.<\/p>\n Four Seasons, Winter<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a9<\/em> 1993 Linda C. Everson, All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n Mentors often influence my artwork. A master of modern art, Jasper Johns,<\/a> did a series of paintings and prints called The Seasons<\/em>.\u00a0 Those works were instrumental in the fragmented backgrounds, aggressive angles, natural patterns, (rain, snow), triangles and circles (earth), and faceless figures in my own Four Seasons<\/em> series. Heavy brushstrokes and surface tension are common equivalents as well.<\/p>\n The New York Times review of Jasper Johns\u2019 paintings The\u00a0Seasons<\/em> <\/a>said it best:<\/p>\n If\u00a0 The Seasons<\/em> does have central meaning, it may well be that catastrophes can be born, however awkwardly and painfully, and that a shattered self can be put together again. The potential of regenerative feeling, like the potential of painting itself, is ever present, if we know how to get through to it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n A wonderful book, Seven Master Printmakers<\/em>, contains the prints, The Seasons<\/em> by Jasper Johns, <\/a>and discusses at length his creation of this series of prints. He worked and reworked the seasons theme in several different mediums and manifestations, with references to other great artists <\/a>such as Picasso,\u00a0Duchamp,\u00a0and da Vinci. \u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n Earth Day was celebrated recently! I was in the process of creating my new website at the time and as it unfolded, I\u2019ve decided my image content should not only be my newest artwork, but I should include some old series as well. Old themes seem to resurface and the current dialogue today is \u201cgreen\u201d! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15,4,37,11],"tags":[105,16,103,95,104],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artists","category-books","category-exhibits","category-inspiration","category-nature","tag-art-news","tag-earth-day","tag-jasper-johns","tag-mother-earth","tag-the-seasons","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindaceverson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindaceverson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindaceverson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindaceverson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindaceverson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindaceverson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindaceverson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindaceverson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindaceverson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindaceverson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"blog-earth-day\"](\"http:\/\/lindaceverson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/blog-earth-day-190x300.jpg\" "\\"blog-earth-day\\"")
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