Yearning in art
Jillian offers this marvelous photograph as her rendition of yearning: "When I read your blog this morning, about Yearning, I immediately thought of this photo I had hanging on my wall. I took it on a camping trip in Maine about 22 years ago or so." Such a spectacular way of visualizing yearning.
And from Ellouise Schoettler, another way of looking at yearning:
"Perhaps the ‘yearning’ Paul Gauguin put into this child’s face in Breton Girls Dancing is why the painting continues to speak to us. When I made this collage last year I cut the image from an old calendar – but have often visited the painting in the National Gallery in Washington. Your Y is for Yearning essay image was such a serendipity – I looked at the photo and remembered this collage. Is yearning why I was drawn to this child?"
"Where do we come from?What are we?
Where are we going?" –Paul Gauguin
"Reminds me of Luciano Penay, artist – professor emeritus at American University. Luciano guided me through my painting thesis when I was a graduate student at AU. I would drag in a load of paintings. We would set them up around the studio. After quiet looking for a time – a very long time it seemed to me – Luciano would ask, ‘These are the answers. What were your questions?’"
Many thanks to both Jillian and Ellouise for this wonderful art.
