Blitheness is the Word

At a recent art show, I stopped short at a series of larger-than-life paintings.  The subjects radiated the most sensational jumble of blitheness through the artist’s brush.

Each painting portrays a person and a dog captured in a moment in time.  They seem forlorn yet untroubled; whimsical yet despondent.  Regardless of all that, their disproportional awkwardness ultimately personifies a delightful mix of casual indifference.

The artist Moris Molino, who just started to paint again after a long hiatus, told me that the peculiar looking mutt in his paintings was from his imagination of an elongated Chihuahua.