Fine Art Thursday

 

Renee Charles Edmond His was born in a suburb west of Paris in 1877. He died in 1960.

He made his reputation as a young man painting enormous, epic paintings. Then he spent the rest of his life capitalizing on that reputation.

Famous for landscapes featuring fertile-looking rivers.

One school of evolutionary biologists claim that our DNA is hardwired to seek places where multiple ecosystems converge and provide food, transportation and trade.  Your mileage may vary.