Blank Canvas inspired by Vincent Van Gogh’s painting, Painter on his Way to Work, lost during WW 11 In his baggy blue-grey work clothes and broad-brimmed yellow hat this artist with canvas and tools on his shoulders and under his arm and a prescient black shadow at his feet was surrounded by fields of deep chartreuse and gold a soft pale-green-aqua sky and trees of rusty brown on his way to work in Tarascon walking on a sunlit cobblestone path when he took a sudden wartime detour and nobody knows for sure where he went if he waited out the war hidden in a cave salt mine flak tower** or castle or crumbled in flames during allied bombings was torched along with other art at The Kaiser-Freidrich Museum by retaliating Nazis in retreat or was captured by the Russians and secretly sold and now sits behind a velvet curtain only to be seen in private viewings All we have left is a ghost in a poor photographic image absent the swirling thick signature texture of brushstrokes* but for me he still lives on the walls of museums in the vase of sunflowers’ swirling three dimensional layers of russet, persimmon dark green and gold autumn tones or the blue off-kilter bedroom in Arles with its hanging towel and tilted portraits that perhaps that day he was on his way to paint Joan Kantor * A photo reproduction of this painting exists, but due to the exceptional sharpness and clarity, the authenticity is suspect. It is also in colour, and most reproductions of Van Gogh's work were black and white. It has never been officially discredited. ** large, above-ground, anti-aircraft blockhouse towers in Nazi Germany Joan Kantor’s collections cover such varied topics as art, Alzheimer’s Disease, mental Illness, social justice, and the natural world. Her work took first place for poetry in both The 2013 Hackney Literary Awards and The 23rd Writers Digest Self-Published Book Awards Contests. She performs as part of Stringing Words Together, a violin and poetry duo and also reads her work throughout New England and New York. Joan has also been both judge and mentor in The Sunken Garden Poetry Festival’s Fresh Voices Program. Having always seen the arts as enhancing one another, in her most recent project, Dual Impressions, she pairs original photos with her poems.
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