There comes a time in every art auction when the auctioneer takes a step back and says, “Wow. That didn’t go quite as well as I’d hoped.”
The next step is for the auctioneer to offer up compelling human detail about the art being sold.
We have now reached this point.
Interesting human detail about still life with fruit and vegetable:
As noted earlier, the vegetables involved went rotten halfway through the painting process (we forgot them in the going-to-painting-class backpack we left, untouched, in the hallway for a week.) So the painter, employing the kind of selfless dedication rarely seen since Leonardo da Vinci roamed, painted most of it with HER EYES CLOSED! More accurately with her eyes squeezed almost completely shut against the horrendous smell of decaying onion and eggplant. Holy fart factory, people!
All around her people were complaining: “Teacher, the shadow around my kumquat is too opaque”, “Teacher, I can’t get the perspective on this mound of squashes right.” And meanwhile, at the back of the class, an artist was painting BLIND, not to mention unheralded and unappreciated.
Until now. You are in a unique position to show you appreciate the results of blind painting. It’s the Christmas thing to do.