tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658518583188826551.post6874159958892932955..comments2024-03-28T06:33:54.252-04:00Comments on Studio and Garden: Nostalgia as InspirationAltoon Sultanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16743040814034732581noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658518583188826551.post-87626765524195044732011-08-05T14:23:38.773-04:002011-08-05T14:23:38.773-04:00Sam, thanks so much for that information; I didn&#...Sam, thanks so much for that information; I didn't know that those artists returned to their childhood places.Altoon Sultanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16743040814034732581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658518583188826551.post-22342056678618646012011-08-05T07:53:47.316-04:002011-08-05T07:53:47.316-04:00So many of our greatest landscape painters were pa...So many of our greatest landscape painters were painting their childhood home landscape - Corot (who slept in his childhood bed as an adult) Courbet, Conatable- so they could go back and paint their childhood magic feeling.Sam Thurstonhttp://samuelthurston.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658518583188826551.post-53484918665705586562011-08-02T21:19:36.517-04:002011-08-02T21:19:36.517-04:00Thank you for the comments rappel and Lisa and Mag...Thank you for the comments rappel and Lisa and Maggie. <br />and rappel, what an amazing moment, hearing the Chopin and remembering your father; thanks for writing about it.Altoon Sultanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16743040814034732581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658518583188826551.post-54971801884494097802011-08-02T21:14:28.269-04:002011-08-02T21:14:28.269-04:00So interesting to see your paintings as part of yo...So interesting to see your paintings as part of your past. Much insight in your posts. Well done, as are your architectural paintings.Maggie Nealehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06793869416867166254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658518583188826551.post-36599913949751837612011-08-02T20:50:54.264-04:002011-08-02T20:50:54.264-04:00I am almost always drawn outside. Nature is what g...I am almost always drawn outside. Nature is what gives me joy.Lisa at Greenbowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07743973292900758183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658518583188826551.post-64748948928583825192011-08-02T20:10:11.591-04:002011-08-02T20:10:11.591-04:00what a sensitive & beautiful post, Altoon. you...what a sensitive & beautiful post, Altoon. you present the positive side of nostalgia - not the side that blinds one to the present and desires only familiar comfort... I myself have no 'longings for home' but this morning hearing on the radio a Chopin piano piece I remembered, vividly, my dad playing it with gusto, fiercely - and I knew the piece by heart because of this, and I felt gratitude for all of it - for the invention of the piano, for Chopin, for my dad, for the radio....rappelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03569445602513667186noreply@blogger.com