After watching the movie "Mo Di", I couldn't calm down for a long time.
I immediately went to look up the life of Maudie Lewis herself:
Maud Lewis was born in Yarmouth County, Ohio, Ohio in 1903 and died in Marshaltown Nova Scotia in 1970. She remains one of Canada's most famous and beloved folk artists. Maud suffered from polio as a child, which left her with mutilated arms and deformed hands. Her parents died while she was still dependent and needed them when she moved to Digby to live with her aunt. Despite her early misfortunes, Maud retained a strong character and a desire to live and love life. At the age of eighteen, Maud married Everett Lewis. They were very poor and lived in a cabin about 10 to 12 feet . Soon after they got married, Maud accompanied Everett to sell fish every day, bringing her Christmas cards . She would sell the cards for 25 cents each. After some success with these cards, Maud started painting on various other surfaces, such as wooden boards, cookie sheets, etc., eventually on more or less every available surface in their tiny house. Everett encouraged Maud to paint and bought her her first set of oils. Most of Maud's paintings are small, her technique involves first drawing the outlines and then applying the paint directly from the tube, and she never mixes colors. Between 1945 and 1950, people started stopping at Maud's home to buy her paintings for two or three dollars. Over time, her paintings began to range from $7 to $10.
In my opinion, Mo Di Lewis has a natural desire to express, and she uses the corners of the whole house as a canvas.
This desire is guided by the pure mind into a yearning and mapping for beauty;
Maudie Lewis lives in the beautiful province of Nova Scotia, Canada.
The vast majority of Maudie Lewis' work depicts the beauty of her hometown:
Innocent brushstrokes, unmixed and directly applied paint, clumsily compose beautiful pictures:
The following are all the works of Mo Di Lewis that I can find. I have not listed them all, because the paintings of Mo Di Lewis are all card-style handicrafts produced for survival. Homogenized and routine works, such as the following:
Homogenization:
Routine:
But I don't think this affects us from appreciating the paintings and feeling the pure inner world of Mo Di Lewis through the paintings.
So in order to prevent you from getting tired of watching homogenized works, I hashed all the 220 paintings in the collection of more than 400 in order:
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