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Paint Out at the Hunter Farm, Weddington, NC
Posted in Art, My art, plein air, tagged Alla Parsons, Art, artist, french easel, hunter farm, landscape, nature, North Carolina, oil, paint out, paint outside, painting, plein air, Plein Air Buds on February 22, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Magic Casements: Poem by Tom Kirby-Smith
Posted in Art, Art World, My art, Uncategorized, tagged Alla Parsons, Art, art concepts, art exhibition, art on paper, art programs, art show, contemporary art, drawing, алла парсонс, живопись, искусство, картина, figurative, figurative painting, figure, figure painting, fine art, gouache, landscape, life drawing, Magic Realism, nature, oil, oil on canvas, oil painting, painting, portrait, realism, realistic, self-portrait, Trompe L'oeil Painting on February 7, 2013| Leave a Comment »
OK! While I really should be in my studio, painting, I will spend a little more time in a virtual world, boasting about myself. Actually, about having a great friend, a poet, Tom Kirby-Smith who wrote a great poem about my art for my book:
MAGIC CASEMENTS
“ . . . magic casements, opening on the foam
Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn”
–Keats
Alla Parsons’ paintings speak to me
As in the song, “Do you see what I see?”
Her gaze transfigures all that she beholds—
Clouds, faces, trees—the sunlight that enfolds
Those creeping wavelets, distant church’s spire—
Bare-breasted angels on bright wings aspire–
A croissant on a plate, a pot of tea,
Two smiling women—suffused with mystery—
As Jane Ann wrote me, “haunting, mystical”–
All Alla! But not one bit egotistical.
“Come to the window; sweet is the night air,”
Said Matthew Arnold to his lover there
Above the Dover cliffs. Let Alla call us
(What happier invitation could befall us!)
To share the windows of her soul, and see
Within those magic frames the mystery
Transforming common things until they seem
“The glory and the freshness of a dream”
As yet another poet wrote. Open this book,
There’s nothing else to say. Just, simply, “Look!”
Tom Kirby-Smith
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Exhibition: Magic Realism
Posted in Art, Art Exhibitions, Art Workshops, My art, tagged Alla Parsons, andrew wyeth, Art, art on paper, art show, contemporary art, drawing, искусство, картина, figurative, figurative painting, figure, figure painting, fine art, gouache, landscape, Magic Realism, painting, realism, realistic, russian artist, self-portrait, surrealism, window on January 27, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Window
Magic Realism: Paintings and Drawings by Alla Parsons
You are cordially invited to the Artist Reception
3:00 – 5:00 PM – Sunday, February 10 at
Robert F. Cage Gallery in Prizery
700 Bruce Street, South Boston, Virginia 24592
Preview Artist Work at
Exhibition will run February-March, 2013
The reception is free and open to the public.
Alla holds MFA in Painting and teaches Art Classes at Danville Museum of Fine Art and History. Contact the Museum for more information.
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