Title
Motif Number One Palenville Autumn
Artist
Terrance DePietro
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
The story behind the titling of this tranquil country scene can be found in the 'prologue' which I published in 2016 [an image of which is in the galleries]. It tells how the memory of the road, the barn and the mountains, faintly visible, churned in my mind and provoked a drawing one evening, back in the early '70s.
What arrived from that one off-the-cuff event, not only started a new experience and interest in nature study, but in fact, whirled me into an entire study, opus, concerning the intriguing implications of creative activity, its history, and all other human activity...to the core of life, its mysteries and potency of purpose.
Yet if the viewer has arrived to this quiet image, something tranquil, peaceful, surely struck a cord. And Mill Rd, in Palenville is all one might expect. Although it surely did not exist as such, in the times of Thomas Cole, Durand, Church and all others of their temperament since those times; it sets the mood for all else that they observed and were touch by, as one wonders past the barn, along the creek and into the Kaaterskill Clove.
The history of American's first art movement was born along this simple water flow, as it feed the nature that flourishes beside it, it also feed the hearts and souls of all that came to test the validity of the legends and lore that made it the 'famous gathering place' of the Hudson River School of landscape painters.
But it was not to the 'history' of the place that I arrived and stayed. Those early days had long gone; hardly any of the local residents were even aware that the cliffs and creek sides were once peppered with arts and easels - lasting decades. No signs announced and no word was spoken; and surely it was something more magical that was only to my gut felt.
And so as times change and the tastes of society morph beyond one way of expressing these felt things that beg to have form, yearn to be captured in image, it is no wonder that my own formulas for depicting as well morphed...In my case, into abstractions. Yet not merely abstract of perceived form but more inclusively of 'imaginal' forms that dance in mind, from the shadows of, 'where-ever it is coming from' into the light of an intuition, a feeling, a question....[5feb17, long over due description]
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February 24th, 2010
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Danielle R T Haney
This is such a peaceful, simple, beautiful scene.. and then to read the history of this area~ makes it amazing!! Wonderful Terrance!!
Terrance DePietro replied:
Thank you Danielle, The history is a bonus; the Kaaterskill Clove is most interesting and Palenville is still charming...Perhaps we will see you, in June!
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