Description

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Here's an elegant still-life, created by Dad in 1959, just a few years after our family came to America in 1956.

The colors of the simply mixed bouquet, a few pieces of fruit, and the floral design tablecloth make this piece something special, exactly because it is not complicated.

Dad didn't create many oil paintings in America, mainly because we were poor with limited living space, and smelly oil paints didn't work too well in our small apartment. He had no studio - his studio was mainly outside. Instead of oil paints, he transitioned his work to the paper medium - watercolors, drawings, and woodcut prints. I'm not sure if it was painful for him to give up painting with oil - it must have been because most of his old work is in oil - but over time, I know he grew to love watercolor painting because it was fast, pure, and didn't allow for many corrections. He had high regard for French artist Raoul Dufy.

But today it was oil paint; it was what he had today, and he applied his vision to this Fresh Bouquet. ❤️

Through My Father's Eyes