“I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of thinking and enjoying what they call living, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.”
— Jack Kerouac, Lonesome Traveler
Tag: painting
Traveler’s Life
Getting back to our theme of traveler’s, caravans, and other wanderers of the world… a few images from Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret a French Naturalist Painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
I believe I would enjoy siting around this campfire.
Once a common scene, now virtually lost in an era of loud, fume-belching machinery.
A peaceful morning cooking breakfast in the morning dew. The caravan is obscured by the smoke of the campfire.
Music is Magic
Archery in Art; David Teniers the Younger
Painted when the common man still met at the butts for an afternoon of shooting and relaxation. Then hopefully, off to the pub for a pint. I love to scan old images for the details. Some nice redware jugs, probably for beer, a great little bench, and clothing details for the historical-minded. Most interesting to me are the bows themselves, as the ones depicted here are reflexed recurved flat bows. Also notable is the conspicuous absence of anything like a quiver. I expect everyone just showed up with a handful of arrows tucked into the belt.
Here are a few older posts on archery from previous years.
The Tinker
Gypsy Music School
Janos Valentiny
Hungarian artist (1842—1902)
Oil, canvas; 1896
Tavern Interior by John S.C. Schaak 1762
John S.C. Schaak active 1760-1770
Video walkthrough:
Detail: tavern, chair, table, basket, food, sideboard, meat, pie, plate, knife, fork, fire, hearth, fireplace crane, cucumber, lemon sausage, meat hook, beef, bird, bird cage, bottle, glass, bread, mortar and pestle, chocolate pot, spit turner, soldier, cooking pot, tongs, serving boy, raised cooking surface, fry pan, jug, game birds, rabbit
Preindustrial Craftsmanship 