Bit of Central Park c. 1918

Charles Frederick William Mielatz etched this "Bit of Central Park" and you can almost hear the scratching of the needle across the plate. Look at the surface of the water and the reflections dancing within it. The ripples almost shimmer! Mielatz's lines are so precise, so deliberate. He really knew how to make an etching communicate so much. What do you think he was thinking as he watched the park that day? Was he trying to capture a feeling? A memory? It looks like he’s trying to trap something that’s alive. Painters and printmakers are always responding to each other, riffing on each other's ideas. Each artwork adds something new to this ongoing conversation. In art, there aren’t any right or wrong answers, only possibilities. That’s what's so beautiful. It allows for so much imagination to come to the surface!