The Catskill Mountain Foundation in an effort to inject culture into their little ski village have invited Jacob Collins a classical realist painter to use some of their buildings for a summer painting school. Mr Collins is attempting to revive the Hudson river painters ...of Cole ..... into modern day saviors of mans - connection to the natural world via landscape painting.
There is a wonderful review in The New Criterion (that once said abstract painting was the only paintings that speaks for the age)by James Panero who describes students painting from sun up till sun down, Making small sketches (that will be turned into large paintings - later - in their studios), Then cooking dinner and then enduring happily three hour lectures from paint vendors.
I am reminded of Homer sitting for hours on a rock -- or a Japanese Brush painter sitting for hours quietly observing his subject before describing it with a few strokes.
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