The pleasure of sketching

Since I’ve started with drawings and sketchings and cartoons I’ll give you one more: little boy I’ve sketched during the Bromont Art Symposium… Was it 2002? 2003? I don’t remember any more. But I know I did a lot of skethcing then, waiting for a collector to come and buy everything… Usually,  they didn’t bother but I still covered my expenses and leave there with a little profit… Danu, the capitalist… Anyway, recently I’ve seen some sketches by Watteau, this “artiste maudit” avant la lettre, dead at 37, like Rafael, like Modigliani, Van Gogh and others who “kicked the bucket” at this fatidic age… I was impressed by the spontaneity, the vigour and, at the same time, the exquisite delicacy of his drawings. I could only imagine him, drawing. All the pleasure that sketching would have brought in his poor life, all the joy. Painter of the so called “fêtes galantes of the end of the 17th and beginning of the 17th century in France, associated with “joie de vivre” and eroticism, he was quite and auster artist. Delicat, discretely erotic but not at all as Fragonnard or Boucher. I would say I will appreciate him even more for that… and he was a great draftsman, just as good as Bruegel and Rembrandt an Rubens. It is not rare to be able to tell more about an artist looking at his/her drawins. No “comission” for that… Just the artist, unadulterated,  “pure”…

So long for now/ Au revoir les amis/ Adio pana una alta, prieteni!

Since all things end at a time or another and since my energy is not, unfortunatelly, unlimited, I’ve decided to limit myself to one blog only, the most visited, “Van Gogh & I”. I’ll try to do there what I was doing on my other blogs too… Of course, I will not delete this present blog and those interested would be able to browse it and to comment, if they so wish… I promise to answer. So that’s it, folks: so long and have a good, interesting life…

——————————————–

J’ai décidé d’abandonner, du moins pour le moment, ce blog. Mon énergie n’est pas, malheureusement, illimit et je vais garder seulement un blog, celui qui marche, apparement, le mieux: ‘Van Gogh & I‘. Il devra me suffire et je vais essayer d’écrire là ce que j’écrivais dans mes autres blogs. Bien sur, ceux intéréssés pouront fureter toujours ce blog and laisser leurs commentaires, s’ils/elles le désirent. Je promets d’y répondre. Au revoir, donc, mes amis et j’espére que vous allez avoir une bonne, intéressante vie…

——————————————–

Pana una alta, adio, dragi prieteni! Fiindca energia mea nu e fara limite am decis sa ma limitez la un singur blog, cel cu cresterea cea mai rapida, ‘ Van Gogh & I‘. Voi incerca sa fac pe un singur blog ceea ce faceam pe 3. Desigur, nu sterg blogul de fatza si daca vetzi dori, il vetzi putea explora fara probleme si comentata, daca vetzi dori. promit sa raspund prompt si va dorest o viatza buna si interesanta…

Ion Vincent Danu