Well this is my first official post on the Terry O. Luc art blog. I like to call it the “Put a little art in your life, you’ll feel better” blog. (More on that in future blogs.) But why now? Why start now spilling the beans on life, liberty, art and the pursuit of happiness. I guess I am really starting to see how fleeting it all is. Like I tell my kids, “For you it’s a whole lifetime, for me it’s a blink of an eye.” And besides, Keith Richards published his life story this year and I usually try to follow his lead.
In this blog I thought I’d feature one of my favorite and most representational paintings entitled Natalie Woodpecker. Obviously even as a little boy I have always been mesmerized by the beautiful starlets of the screen: Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, Rita Hayworth, Donna Reed, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Hara, Heddy Lamarr, Natalie Wood, Elizabeth Taylor – the list could go on and on. Perfect in every way – but for such a short time. At least they have been kept young in celluloid. But even that doesn’t guarantee their immortality. I mean, how many people are watching Heddy Lamar movies today? At least Donna Reed will always be seen in “It’s a Wonderland Life”.
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The Stones sang “Time is on my Side”, but they also wrote “Time Waits for No One”. Keep moving. Keep creating. The vultures are in the trees.
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