Out came a thought and then another...

It is so much fun searching for paintings. That much I know now. You don't have to have a certain painting in mind, or a certain theme, or a certain artist. You just need to be relaxed, happy to be sitting back comfortably browsing, and the paintings draw you to them. Seriously.


One painting comes along, then another and before you know it a theme presents itself and you certainly had no part to play in it other than to save, upload and link appropriately.


Such was the pleasure I had in selecting paintings for Pigmentium last week that I did not want the week to end. I mean, I had so many worthy ones still sitting in my hard disk and the week had gone whoosh.


The theme that had wiggled its way into my head was Reading, or so I thought until it defined its gender and became Females Reading and then, as if clubbing girls and women together was somehow inappropriate, it refined itself to Woman Reading (7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1) - paintings that were titled so, that had a solitary woman absorbed in reading, that were created in different styles as well.


Our artists must have sensed long ago that there is a certain fascination in the concentration of a reading face, in its lack of guile (unless the face led to hands that were holding a horrid letter or telegram or court order).


In fact, my real reason for doing this post is to put up a few more of the reading ones that I was very sore I missed. I also cheated in a similar manner with another three-colours post at that haunt.

Also, read the fine article on Solitary Pleasures (thanks for the link dear sender)

Posted by Echo/Lavanya on Monday, October 16, 2006 at 6:55 PM | Permalink