I don't know Grant Wood but that is truly gorgeous. Compositionally
wonderful, etc. Ya done good!
Chuck Norcutt
Joel Wilcox wrote:
> Basically, I live in Grant Wood country. His landscape paintings are
> composites of things I see here and there all the time, but the
> elements rarely come together at one time as they do in his paintings.
> Only one person I know has ever looked at a landscape of mine and
> said "That looks like Grant Wood." It was probably more gratifying
> than any other compliment I've been given about my photos, except that
> I didn't feel it was really true. I'm not trying to make a photograph
> that looks like a Wood painting. I just want to get the same feeling
> that he evokes in the landscape and do some kind of justice to it.
>
> I think I'm getting closer. I spend a lot of time on the evenings and
> weekends working the narrow (but still mostly paved) roads on my
> motorcycle, which is the only OM/E-thingie carrier I can park on the
> narrow shoulders of these county roads.
>
> http://myweb.uiowa.edu/jfwilcox/
>
> Joel W.
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