art dreams

I love that Spring seems to usher in traveling art exhibits in Southern California. I've done a pretty good circuit over the past month or so -- saw the Renoir sketches at the Getty -- also saw this and this.

I really enjoy (nerdy writer alert) reading the short texts that go along with each exhibit. They are so compact, yet relay so much. It got me thinking, what a very specific copywriting skill to have.

I would love that job. While I'm by no means an expert in art, I think it would be beyond interesting to listen to experts wax on about a painting and an artist and then take all that information and pack it into two or three really great sentences.

One my favorite Renoirs is pictured above right. I always thought this was such a sweet picture of a mother and child. When at LACMA I learned that it was his nanny and his boy. Renoir also painted her in the nude all. the. time. I know, it's art and he found inspiration where he found it. But still, I'm a wife after all.

Gabrielle (the nanny) is more than prominent in so many of his paintings. She's the one in the beautifully renown painting which graces the banners currently hanging in the streets of Los Angeles.

Do you think his wife rolled in her grave a little when they placed that painting on the cover of the Website and brochure, and then on the banners?

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side note: my article "Caught Mid-Stride in Life" appeared in the magazine Mommies Magazine if you want to check it out.

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