Dear Art Lover,
It is not
often that I have created a work of art with another artist. But my friend and colleague Jean-Antoine
Norbert, a man I know from art school in Florence, Italy, left for America back
in 2014, and left some of his painting studies with me. One portrait of a man had a splashy
background of bright red; no doubt a sign of Jean-Antoine’s longing to break
away from the school’s dreary dark green backgrounds for all figurative
work.
I set
this painting up in my studio so that I would pass it occasionally, keeping the
image in the back of my mind, slowly developing an idea for him. Even in the small Tuscan village I live in,
the grown-ups complain that the young adults may sit together at a table in the
local hangout, but they are not often interacting with one another. Instead, they are each separately engrossed
in their phones conversing with someone who knows where. It is not a new idea to suggest that we not
only have lost our manners, but are voluntarily giving up our social quality of
life as human beings.
Earlier
this year, I began to paint on top of Jean-Antoine’s study. The title of this painting says it all for
the glazed and almost hypnotized expression in this man’s portrait. Where IS he
mentally? “(Must Get) Back to Nature” is
an expressed desire to reconnect with our Earth and ourselves. In the language of symbols, butterflies often
are a sign of transition. And who does
not love a hummingbird? (They were Jean-Antoine’s suggestion that I readily
embraced.) Hummers also represent speedy
movement, perhaps Nature’s counterpoint to today’s technology. And artists may appreciate the number in the
UPC code.
This work is available for $1800.
“(Must Get) Back to Nature”
21 x 16 inches
Mixed Media Painting by
Jean-Antoine Norbert and Kelly Borsheim
Copyright 2014 - 2017
Please contact me if you would like to add any of
this or any other Borsheim artwork to your collection. http://www.borsheimarts.com/contact.htm
If you would like to see more of Jean-Antoine’s art,
please visit his site at: http://www.jeanantoinenorbert.com/
I will be
leaving Texas in less than a week and traveling to Florida to help my baby sister
celebrate her marriage. After that, I
will be traveling to see more family in North Carolina and Virginia before
arriving at Don Elliott’s Franklin Barry Gallery on Monday, May 15. I hope to see you there, or later in Austin,
Texas, for a visit [see event information below].
Calendar:
Monday, May 15, 2017: Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
The
Franklin Barry Gallery aka The Frame Shop, Indianapolis [normal gallery hours
10 a.m. to 6 p.m.]; 617 Massachusetts Avenue, Indianapolis, Indiana 46204;
Tel. 317.822.8455
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Friday and Saturday, May 19-20,
2017: Austin,
Texas
Rue
Artsier presents LiberArte event spettacolo!
Friday,
May 19, 2017 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Saturday,
May 20 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Where: 615 W. 7th St., 8th Floor, Austin, Texas
78701
R.S.V.P. Brenda@rueartsier.com
Lists
of artists:
Luis
Rico- Mexico
Adrian
Moraru- Moldova
Leandro
Klapputh- Buenos Aires
Maria
Fotaki- Greece
Denis
Chernov- Moscow
Kelly
Borsheim. Austin & Italia
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I
hope to see you!
Peace,
Kelly
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