All Blog Posts Tagged 'loneliness' (4)

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If there is one aching theme in artist Bob Dob's work it's loneliness. Though disguised in bad boy's clothing, you can tell that his artwork tries to touch on the darker side o… Continue

After Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World, my favorite painting is Edward Hopper's Nighthawks. I borrowed from the title when selecting my CB "handle" in the 1970s (Arkansas Nighthawk). Hopper didn't like to discuss his art. He said, "The whole answer is there on the canvas." Some things don't need explanations (although what he d… Continue

SPEAKING OF A VISION At Jackson Hole, Wyoming, I hiked up Cascade Canyon to Lake Solitude. Won't mean anything to you unless you've been there. MEMPHIS AND DAD I took driver's ed at Trezevant High School, in Memphis. On our first day street driving, I drove down Beale Street by the legendary Pee Wee's (where supposedly WC Handy first wrote the blues, although that's now known to be primarily a legend) before a lot of that neighborhood was torn down. I was also in Memphis when E… Continue

Who hasn't felt this kind of loneliness? Russian artist Dmitry Maximov eloquently captures one of our most painful emotions in these set of pictures. Using a mixture of illustration and photographic techniqu… Continue