CE Wills

   Hey, everyone. I have been enjoying an app called Louvre HD . This app has a collection of the famous museum's paintings and again I marvel at the ability to carry so many of the old masters' works in the palm of my hand. I thank the app's creators for this app.      The above painting is split into three pieces, not because it is that way on the app, because it isn't. Rather, I wanted to enlarge it, take screen shots and talk about it. As usual, I was meditating on the painting, just trying to get into the artist's head a bit.     The artist is, or was, one Francois Boucher who died in the 18th century. He liked to do landscapes and pastoral pictures and I enjoy them very much. This one is entitled The Shepherd's Presents or The Nest. It is derived from the collection of Louis XV.      If you can enlarge the part in which the people are, you'll see that the man is pointing to something in the lady's lap. It...

    Hey, everyone. As you know, I like to meditate on a painting or sculpture on occasion. I know very little about art and make no claim to being a critic. I do know this much; it feeds my soul, as a good meal feeds my body. I can sit down and study a painting, like the one above, and feel my soul's yearning for something indefinable. Is it a love for beauty? A desire for a different life that might have been?      I have an app for my I-Pad that I truly enjoy. It is named Impressionists . As you thumb through it you can choose between dozens of the old Impressionist painters such as Van Gogh, Cezanne, Renoir and the above-mentioned Pissarro. It is a feast for the eyes.     This morning, I meditated on Pissarro's Girl With a Goat. I thought about many things. 1) Was this goat a favored pet? It seems so, since she had it on a leash and was looking at it with a benign smile. It is certainly a long-haired goat. What do they call thos...