23 November 2006

landscape that feeds his soul

I just watched this show on KUED. I really enjoyed it. The images and the phrase "landscape that feed his soul" from the following paragraph stuck with me. They reminded me of fall drives in Southern Utah.

"There were many, many artists who at that time, responded in one way or another to the war. Some turned to modernism because they didn’t want to paint anything that resembled in any way the world, this corrupt world that we lived in. Dixon, however, that’s when he becomes all the more determined to go back into that landscape that feeds his soul."

"Maynard Dixon: To the Desert Again," To see more of Dixon's paintings go to Maynard Dixon Collection at the BYU Museum of Art.