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his little scenes are just so simply beautiful and always make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
i discovered him through jigsaw puzzles, his work is on so many of themāand doing a wysocki jigsaw puzzle has to be the best form of self care. i have maybe 7-8 1000 piecers and i just do them over and over.
when the world is crazy and awful (it always is, but these next four years more so than ever) i canāt help but turn to artists like wysocki whoāve captured these wonderful little peaceful slices of some mystical americana-esque rural life.
i donāt idealize some former time period or try to over-romanticize it (unlike certain supporters of a certain newly inaugurated president). and i hate nothing more than the fact that wysocki was one of reaganās favorite painters. iām not loving his work for some supposedly ābetterā past theyāre apparently unilaterally depicting.
i treasure them because they represent moments and slices of life and nature and simple joys. thatās what americana means to me.
i want to remember that those feelings can be found if you know where to look. i want to remember to enjoy the smaller comforts and joys in life while not backing down from resistance nor action. i want to hold on to kindness and community and love ALL of my neighbors even as the other side tries to rip it apart.
sorry for the long ramble! i like to shout my thoughts into the void š«ļø
Jan 22, 2025
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I have always adored art ever since I was in preschool. I loved creating characters or even doing my own renditions on characters and movies.
I even took time during lockdown to work on my interest, putting in hours of learning anatomy and structure.
However for a while I've been in a slump of sorts, I've lost creativity and the fuel to continue.
It's been hard, especially since drawing and creating is something I've been putting effort to what seems like eons at this point. I even decided to just quit altogether and pursue something else as a dream career.
There had become a point where my boyfriend gave me a pep talk and to prove his point he had read me a book he wad reading for philosophy called 'The Republic';
"All great things are precarious... Beautiful things really are difficult" and in his own words told me -
"It occurs often throughout the text, anything that is easy will never be beautiful, for if it is easy it won't have the scars and marks of something built through struggle, those scars and marks are the cracks through which beautiful shines most brightly", which I think helped me.
For the past month in my art class I've been researching a style called 'Jugendstil' and got a bit of inspiration again. I want to show off what I made because I'm genuinely happy with my product since a hot minute.
Anyways moral of the story, don't beat yourself up if you don't find something about you or what you make up to your standards, because beautiful things take time.
Feb 27, 2025
like what ever happened to accidental art? idk just a sweet reminder that in the middle of something chaotic thereās still this cathartic sense of peace if we just let things sit still for two seconds and appreciate the positivity that still exists somewhere inside them.
yeah yeah he gets deep blah blah blah
May 31, 2025
He has a special place in my heart. Looking at his paintings is like looking at a reflection of what I feel ā what Iāve felt during my worst moments. Thereās this chaos in the world, this lack of uncertainty, like the roaring storm in Vincentās final painting. Only recently have I taken the time to learn more about him and his story. Thereās this moment where you truly realize that all those famous painters, artists, writers, Hollywood stars, actorsā¦ theyāre all just like you. Human. And of course youāve always known that they are ā but youāve never placed much thought in it. I think Iāve found some sense of unity in seeing my emotions reflected on paintings and books over a hundred years old. And it all started with Vincent. I wonder how things would have changed if he knew how much his paintings would inspire others. Learning about his story really sparked my passion for learning once more :] So Iām very thankful to him, and to the kind old man that sold me a book about him for only three bucks.
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