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  7 March 2024 from 1:30 to 3:30 was the week time for the meeting drawing gruop to be in the National Gallery of Art with the guidance of Miss Barbara Wright, it was a good chance to seet the gallery temprory exhibitions. They were The Anxious Eyes:German Expressionisiom and Its Legacy and Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper.  Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper.  "A PICTURE LIVES by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer. It dies by the same token. It is therefore a risky and unfeeling act to send it out into the world." Writing in 1947, Mark Rothko (1903-1970) addressed one of his greatest concerns: the vital relationship between a work of art and its beholder. So which works did he think were worth the risk? The exhibition is organized around four periods in Rothko's career when painting on paper was his primary focus.  Watercolors from the 1930s reveal his early artistic aspirations and influences.  Symbolic paintings of the 1...

Amazing, as usual,  Washington DC, with its nature  people  exhibitions  surroundings  DC,  the land of wonders  The National Gallery of Arts is one of amazement with its  exhibitions, displays, and paintings. I was captivated by the idea of the exhibit, especially the photos of hands at the Dorothea Lange exhibit at the National Gallery.  I met my lovely Thursday gruop with whom I uaually did sketching session in-person. One of the photos I will never forget is a photo of Japanese-American children putting their hands on their chests.  I asked a man looking at the same photo what it meant. He told me that the children were "Reciting the Pledge of Allegiance."  I asked him if I could take a video while reciting it. It was nice of him to recite it and accept taking the video to be one of my lovely memories. Another lovely moment was meeting the poetess Ellen Steinbaum and talking in front of Dorothea Lange's iconic gelatin silver pr...