Bon soir, DU! The Friday Afternoon Challenge is here with: “Making the art of trees.”

[CTyankee]

41. someone else told me what you did, that they started researching artists that the threads

piqued their interest. I am incredibly flattered but also really happy that this is an outcome of my little project! It makes me happy.

This Challenge started when I decided that the treatment of trees in art must have had a grand unifying principle in art...maybe symmetry or something grand like that. But I found that trees were simply a mechanism for artists to express what they felt about art and how they treated the autonomous space on the canvas. It was a revelation to me! You look at the Mondrian and see how it means a transition from realism to abstract. The Klimt becomes an exercise in his Symbolist philosophy, but probably also his idea of beauty in the Art Nouveau. Magritte goes totally Expressionist/Surrealist.Miro is already in transition to Surrealism and his sky betrays it. Trees are no longer the Big Symbol. They are the Transit point!