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navigate thru the pics Cityscape 4. |
framed. I jerry-rigged an easel and set out, walking until something stopped me, setting up and painting it. The first 3 - 4 were barely out the door. This brought me though, by the end of that enchanting summer, far afield. People, however, began to approach me to show drawings by their kids, pester me with questions or distract me with chat. It was beginning to get impossible... and anyway my interest shifted. But until it did I had a most charming time. I did bunches of the cityscapes, even sold some wet, at art fairs (cheap) before getting slides so I have no record and gave some away... I know where a few are and hope to get photos one day. The canvases were still 12 x 12" but beginning to expand abit to 14" square and a couple odd sizes. I tried reading Aristotle and Plato. I discovered Beckett & the Theatre of the Absurd (had met a member of the Living Theater in NYC), Hemingway who said to read the Russians so I did, mostly Dostoyevsky. I read on pacifism, transcripts of Senator Fulbright's hearings on Vietnam & was amazed at my own previous gullibility (is this the place to mention I spent 3 years in the army, a paratrooper, in Vietnam). I published my first written piece, a stream-of- consciousness parody of the reactionary patriarch, in Milwaukee's alternative newspaper, Kaleidoscope and began to join anti-war demonstrations. |
This drawing is typical of the fascination I had at the time with architecture, a view from my parent's place looking NE at the LaRue's house. contact |
