Nature quilts and Portraits that look like photos

Sorry about the little break  I took, I am taking three classes though OLLI - and have been very busy!

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Frank and I are taking Russia - Tsar Nicholas to Putin which includes the ruse of Communism 

AND we both are taking Mexican Art painting- which is the Atami or Bark Cloth paintings that are indigenous to Central America.  The instructor is from Columbia and came from a village very near where the main center for the old painters is located.  

I am taking Marchita's course on Modern Art - which documents how the Modern Art evolved from the great impressionist painters on down to today.

So interesting!

Back to the quilts from the trip!

Here is Elizabeth Elliot's graphic black and white quilts.

 They kind of looked like explosions!

And Dorte Jensen was incredible!  The quilts were anywhere from 2 feet to

6 feet in height/width and looked like photographs.

Meanwhile, remember we are walking through the villages from building to building through the streets looking at these wonderful old sites and places where people live and work.   

Here is Denise Labadie's incredible stone quilts.  They all look like you could just step into them and walk up the stairs.  

This was another exhibit that was all about nature.  

And this is the entry from Noriko Endo

 This scene with the child looking up into the woods won first place

This was a landscape of the ocean with that face superimposed over it.  In person it looked more like a landscape than a face, but I notice here it looks more like a face.  

And I will end this post with the most familiar thing there for me...…...the Handiquilter booth!  LOL.  

They were happy to have someone who spoke "their" language come by!