I am interested in expressionism, and I have lately been looking for paintings that make a more readable or immediate emotional statement. I want to see how artists use color to convey emotion, and to learn to do this myself. I am very drawn to primitive art and primitive ways of painting animals and nature, and I want to find a (perhaps primitive or naive) way of painting animals or agrarian life that people will feel is relevant to their life today. I would also love to see how contemporary painters are dealing with nature and the landscape in new ways. Here are some images that I have been admiring: