from Belvedere Digital Dame am Goldfischbassin (Lady at the goldfish basin) is an oil on canvas painting done by Lovis Corinth in 1911. It’s currently displayed at the Belvedere Palace in Vienna, Austria, which I visited in June of 2019. The painting sits beside the best of Gustav Klimt’s work (including The Kiss!) and one of five of the Napoleon am Großen St. Bernhard that I love so much. I’m not usually attracted to oil paintings, but I remembered this painting while thinking about my sustained investigation theme and I feel like it encapsulates it in a way I hadn’t thought of. My theme is home, I go about my pieces with the questions “What feels like home?” and “What do I want ‘home’ to feel like?”. This piece feels like the answer I want to both questions! my photo of the paiting me at the Belvedere in June 2019 with my favorite Napoleon painting The choice of medium, oils, is amazing for the soft daylight lighting of the reference. The oils keep the de...