Cleeo Wright

Cleeo Wright, master of landscape, posted a very uncharacteristic photo, a macro of a leaf.

Talk about horizonless landscapes! You’re really ringing the changes on genres, and illustrating a basic (and, for some, sad) fact about art – there’s common ground that all genres stand on, and no artist can escape a lack of talent in genre X by fleeing to genre Y. Competence in different styles depends on some underlying competence. Naturally one person may work best in one style and another in something very different, and a third person may invent an entirely new style. But as big as the differences may seem (X concentrates on form, Y on content), the similarities are bigger. Sort of like the similarities between the DNA of mammal X and mammal Y – 95% identical, maybe, though X eats Y for breakfast.