HOME My Favorite Renoir Self Portrait Sunflower No. 1 Sunflower No. 2 Dancing Ladies Teddy Still Life Girl Reading Bottles A Study of Van Gogh's Landscape with Rising Sun A Study of Monet’s Woman with Parasol Rose Sunrise Landscape Desert Trilogy Still Life of Flowers and Fruit A Study of Van Gogh’s Public Garden at Arles Still Life of Pitcher and Fruit Study of Degas’ Dancer Adjusting Her Slipper ©2002 A.L. Book All rights reserved. All images are copyrighted and protected under copyright laws. Any reproduction, in any format, including derivative works is prohibited.   Bottles 1999, watercolor, 12 x 17.5 inches Thinking I would not keep this painting, it was a free form exercise of placement, colors, and imagination. Surprisingly, I later discovered a resemblance between it and the late style of Edvard Munch. Like Munch’s work Self Portrait with Bottles (The Alchemist), these bottles project a rather frenzied attack of form in a suspended space. They lack, however, the frame of reference that Munch provides for his bottles. Munch’s bottles are a reflection and reinforcement of the emotional state that is the central theme of his work. Because these bottles serve no compositional purpose, they simply float out of the space reinforcing a foray into imagination alone. HOME All photographs taken by Theodore L. Book, Sr. My thanks to Ted L. Book, Jr. for his assistance in setting up this website. Thanks to all my family and friends for your support in this first ever show of my paintings! <Top>