PEEL
Oil on Panel / 6 x 6 Inches
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The peel from a clementine, great shapes, negative spaces, shadows and light for an artist to play with.
Betsy got new shoes! Yep, I bit the bullet today and took her in for some new tires. Finished up the cleaning out and rearranging that took up most of yesterday, and did some shopping in preparation for getting out of town, if I ever do. I just keep finding things here that need to be taken care of. Maybe tomorrow.
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This Peel is full of light. Love the texture and the background, which is a mystery that I can’t figure out.
This Peel looks fresh and edible. I like to eat the orange peel as much as the orange fruit!
I like that fascinating background glad you did not tell us what it is, a little mystery to solve. Perhaps some modern artist made table of metal?
Thought you might be interested in the history of the orange. I looked up the word orange. I thought they started in America.
Word History: Oranges imported to China from the United States reflect a journey come full circle, for the orange had worked its way westward for centuries, originating in China, then being introduced to India, and traveling on to the Middle East, into Europe, and finally to the New World. The history of the word orange keeps step with this journey only part of the way. The word is possibly ultimately from Dravidian, a family of languages spoken in southern India and northern Sri Lanka. The Dravidian word or words were adopted into the Indo-European language Sanskrit with the form nāraṅgaḥ. As the fruit passed westward, so did the word, as evidenced by Persian nārang and Arabic nāranj. Arabs brought the first oranges to Spain, and the fruit rapidly spread throughout Europe. The important word for the development of our term is Old Italian melarancio, derived from mela, “fruit,” and arancio, “orange tree,” from Arabic nāranj. Old Italian melarancio was translated into Old French as pume orenge, the o replacing the a because of the influence of the name of the town of Orange, from which oranges reached the northern part of France. The final stage of the odyssey of the word was its borrowing into English from the Old French form orenge. Our word is first recorded in Middle English in a text probably composed around 1380, a time preceding the arrival of the orange in the New World.
Seeing the orange peel makes my mouth water. Now I am hungry for one.
Most interesting word study. Thank you.