Bloomie

In my senior year [at the High School of Music and Art], our art teacher, Mr. Bloomstein—fondly called Bloomie—introduced our class to Cubism—Braque, Picasso, Juan Gris. He’d set up a still-life for the class and suddenly I was released from “getting an idea.” I let my eyes roam over the still-life, and I drew lines that broke down the rudimentary forms of bottle and glass, and filled in the resulting facets with subtle shifts of color. Mr. Bloomstein sent me a note—Congratulations! How much you have grown! Vera Klement