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July 29 & 30 + August 5 & 6 + August 12 & 13
open from 12 noon until 8 pm CDT
LaMaPa LaPrairie Museum & Park
2215 East 350 North
LaPorte, IN 46350
Site 5
Painting Round the Beans
George proposed that we paint in a circle or cycle so as to reflect the roundness of the corn bin we had chosen for our site. The crib would become our Orangerie, the museum with a circular gallery that houses many of Monet's masterworks in Paris.
So off we went, French easel in hand, to paint in a succession of sites of the farm, George at 3 PM. 9 PM, 3 AM, and 9 AM, and Clifford at 6 AM, 12 noon, 6 PM, and 12 midnight.
The variation of place, time, direction, climate, and mood, not to mention two quite different painting styles, led to a suite of works painted and grounded in place.
Clifford recalls helping build the bin, when as a young boy he was raised on tractor loader to a terrifying height, from which he had to weave a 16-foot iron rod down through the interlocking panels.
Cleared of some of the debris and overgrowth of years, the bin offers a new dimension, one of vision and creation, of a place to store the harvest of art.
So off we went, French easel in hand, to paint in a succession of sites of the farm, George at 3 PM. 9 PM, 3 AM, and 9 AM, and Clifford at 6 AM, 12 noon, 6 PM, and 12 midnight.
The variation of place, time, direction, climate, and mood, not to mention two quite different painting styles, led to a suite of works painted and grounded in place.
Clifford recalls helping build the bin, when as a young boy he was raised on tractor loader to a terrifying height, from which he had to weave a 16-foot iron rod down through the interlocking panels.
Cleared of some of the debris and overgrowth of years, the bin offers a new dimension, one of vision and creation, of a place to store the harvest of art.