Good morning and happy September 18th! Tomorrow is my second most favorite holiday of the whole year (Halloween, of course, is the first)…Sept 19th is Talk Like A Pirate Day! Yayyyyy!
SO, I give you some awesome pirate jokes to make you smile:
For this weeks’ artist, I’ve chosen Norman Bluhm, in particular, my favorite piece of his, “Untitled Drawing #3”. And that name is one of my favorite things about Norman Bluhm. He could have been all Mr. Smarty-pants and called this “Giant Nosed Man with a Yellow Moustache”, but that would have taken all the fun out of it – instead, he’s totally leaving it up to you to look at this piece and see what you see. I’m a fan of that.
Norman was born in the 1920s in the US and served in WWII as a young man. He wasn’t a super famous artist because he didn’t work very hard at being commercially successful, but a lot of art people think his stuff was pretty important. He also refused to be part of the Pop Art movement (remember Andy Warhol?). I think his work is beautiful and interesting, and I look at this piece and I see sunshine-y colored horses dancing in happy pink clouds and swirly lines and it makes my heart joyful.
Hope that you are doing well this week – know that I love you and think that you’re awesome.
Hugs and kisses,
Auntie Paula
xoxoxoxo
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