My Experience with Impressionism: Gateway to Modern Art

My Experience with Impressionism:  

Gateway  to Modern Art 

"Either deep or shallow the skill,

that artists miss or fill. 

Art  like a restless moving wheel,

will never truly fulfil. " - avr

Dr Abe V Rotor

Fish Shroud

I rubbed some paint all over a glass relief of fish, 

wrapped it with linen while the paint 

was still fresh - and pronto! a shroud of a fish.

Butterfly Remains

I soaked some leaves with shades of green,  

 pressed them on canvas while fresh;

I wanted to create at the center a bird's nest;

instead, butterfly remains can be seen.

 Rainbow Forever

Beauty is ephemeral, I know I cannot defy,

but on canvas artists deny.

One day I painted rainbow in perpetual motion,

 at the end I had to resign.   

Crater 

I flew over Mayon and  this is the view

I saw through a misty window;

I recreated it from imagination 

And this is a clearer vision.

Living Pillars

What makes Parthenon a perfect architecture,

I wonder.

If temple of worship, I imagined trees in a forest,

Nature's wonder.

Fungus

Growing outward, dying in the center, 

after its bloom,

like a city expanding beyond its limit,

to final doom.

Monster in the deep

I've searched the monster of my childhood;

I created it on canvas with all its likelihood. 

The Eye

An eye in the deep is 

 enough to scare;

whose eye matters not, 

  artists dare to stare. 

Ancient fern evolved from a lowly moss 

Ancient fowl evolved from Archaeopteryx

 Remains and remnants of natural history,

easy to draw and paint  as they are;

But to re-create them alive in their own time,

is more than reckoning them from afar.

Forest Fire

Fire of death, fire of life;

fire of life, fire of death;

 cycle sans beginning

nor ending.  

Composite Fish 

Either deep or shallow the skill,

that artists miss or fill. 

Art  like a restless moving wheel

will never truly fulfil. ~