Stop. Look. Listen.

I was going to write a little bit about the artist Constantine Kermes, who died Tuesday, May 19, but this photograph, taken in 2007 by Laura Knowles — the artist Constantine Kermes standing in a forest of color — says more than I can say. It seemed that his artistic journey would never end, that the well of inspiration would never dry up. The retrospective exhibit at the Lancaster Museum of Art, “I Hear America Singing II,” closes Sunday. If you haven’t had a chance to stop by, you should take the opportunity. It’s about 50 years worth of work showing a startling artistic progression — from figurative to abstract work, from somber colors to skies and fields bathed in magenta and marigold — but also some underlying unities. The strong vertical, elongated images from icons become Amish portraits. An early work of a funeral presages the abstract direction of his later works. And the bright colors so prominent in his work these past few years appear in quite a few of the illustrations and paintings of the county’s plain folk.