Don’t have much to say this morning and I’m fumbling around the internet looking for something that sparks my imagination. I did come across the painting above from F.H. Varley (1881-1969) who was part of the famed Canadian Group of Seven painters, a highly influential gathering of landscape painters in the 1920’s and 30’s.
This piece is called Untitled (Mist and Sunset) and is from around 1930. It’s a bit looser than most of Varley’s other work, which I will highlight here at some point, but the expressiveness of it really spoke to me. Something very right about this piece, at least for me. Those bits of light in the center, which might be ( or not be) sunlight on the caps of waves, give the piece an ethereal feel that gives me pause this morning.
It reminds me that I wanted to mention the passing of Tom Petty the other day which was somewhat overlooked on another bad and black news day. I had been following and listening to Petty since the 70’s with Breakdown still being a personal favorite. Some of his songs have become part of the soundtrack of my life and hearing them sparks personal memories and times long past. He was always rock solid and it seemed like everything he released never let you down.
It all felt honest and part of who he was as an artist and a person. All you can ask…
Here’s his You Don’t Know How It Feels. I guess that is the basis for all art — making people know how you feel– from his music to the Varley painting above.
Good travels to you, Tom…
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Great song!!! :)) Dawn
Thanks, Dawn.
I really love the shapes of Varley’s waves!
Yes, they are really expressive!
There’s something about Varley’s painting that brings Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” to mind. I think you were the one who introduced me to the Group of Seven. There certainly is a lot of fine work amongst them.
I never was much of a fan of Petty as a solo artist. It wasn’t that I don’t like his work; I do. I just never associated the great songs with a name. However, as a part of The Traveling Wilburys? I’m there. Three of them are gone now — perhaps they’re celebrating their reunion with my favorite of their songs.
A fitting choice– The End of the Line. You’re right . There is something Van Gogh-ish in this painting, maybe in it’s rhythm or movement.