My weblog ELECTRON BLUE, which concentrated on science and mathematics, ran from 2004-2008. It is no longer being updated. My current blog, which is more art-related, is here.
Thu, 09 Nov, 2006
My mother, artist Esther Geller
While I was up in Massachusetts to celebrate her eighty-fifth birthday, I visited my mother's studio where I saw many of her early works that I had never seen before. My mother has been a prolific and creative artist for more than sixty years, and some of these early works were indeed sixty years old. I didn't have time to photograph them, though I intend to, but I now have made enough good photographs of my mother's art through all her decades to create a Web gallery for her.
When anybody asks me where I got my art training, I always say that my mother was my main source for art education. I did go to art school for short periods, but my mother was always there to help me. It was from her that I learned about color, drawing, pigments, composition, media, and aesthetics. She encouraged me to draw before I could even write. I found some of my childhood paintings (of fantasy birds) in the portfolios of her work from when I was young.
One of my tributes for Mother's eighty-fifth birthday, then, is a Web-based picture gallery that anyone can look at. Mother's art shows are all local to the Boston area, but thanks to the global magic of the Internet, now people in California, Australia, and even Malaysia will be able to see her art.
Flickr is a wonderful Internet resource which features millions of photographs and digital artworks from people all over the world. It's free of charge as long as you don't upload too much material all at once. You can easily spend hours looking at people's photographs, linking from one subject to the next. It's the perfect place to display art as well, as long as it is decently photographed. Therefore I have placed a set of my mother's art on Flickr. You can go to it by clicking on the words.
Click on the small images of the paintings in Flickr to bring up a larger, complete image. I will upload more Esther Geller art when I have the opportunity.
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