Family Relationship Essay

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Family Relationship 03/07/14 Expressionism with My Grandfather My grandfather, Irving Buchdart, is my mother’s father. A great artist. He used to do drawings and throw them away. He passed away when I was thirteen years old. I found some hidden paintings in the crawl space. Pictures of sail boats with detail. Along with all of his paint brushes, pencils, pastels, charcoals, sketch pads, and even a gold leaf booklet. As a child he was critical towards my art work. When I was about ten we used to draw three dimensional pieces together which always turned into an argument. He would have said “Jessica that is not the way you draw a table and chair. The table and chair has four legs; it does not have two” He showed me the proper way draw. The way we see the object as a whole dimension. The significance of drawing the way the object appears gives the picture a realistic image. It looks like a different piece when finished. I wondered if my grandfather’s love for me was distant because he had lost my mother so young to breast cancer. I reminded him of her. My blonde hair, blue eyes, even my laugh was the same as hers. He kept his distance but, showed his love in other ways. When we drew that was his way of connecting with me. Together we would create a beautiful image on canvas with just a few colored oils and a paint brush at hand. That image became his way of expressing his pg. 2 love for me. It was a magical moment for us both. Within a few weeks of hard work we created not only a great piece of art but, a strong emotional bond with one

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