An exhibition of sunny,
bucolic scenes from around Umbria, Italy, painted by Ella Yang during a residency in 2017.
Bucolic scenes from trips or images extracted from videos that caught her attention trigger a process towards paintings that come into existence in a rare combination of seriousness and leniency.
Did I lift this almost laughingly
bucolic scene from the pages of L.L. Bean's most recent fall catalog, you ask?
Not exact matches
But once you have a dog, that
bucolic scene can look more like a hotbed of potential pain and injury
from foxtails (also called «grass seed awns»).
Ostensibly a
bucolic scene of fall foliage, the painting is in fact based upon a still
from the film Apocalypse Now that shows an area of jungle being napalmed.