Pissarro, Boulevard Montmartre, Night
(Of course the colors never show true in photos.) What did you think of the same, in winter, in snow?
Pissarro, Boulevard Montmartre, Night
(Of course the colors never show true in photos.) What did you think of the same, in winter, in snow?
The one I saw was in daylight.I will see if I can locate it.
He did thirteen of the same scene, at different times of day, in different seasons and weather conditions. I've only seen three of them (in London, NYC, and Melbourne). They're spread all over the world. Wouldn't it be an experience to see them all together?
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Really!!
I'm going for a jog.When I get back I will see if I can locate it.There was one of VanGogh of Cypress trees that was incredible.I think I may go back today.MFAH on Thursdays is free.
First, let me say, I am a little jealous of the access you have!
Second, let me say, I am so glad you are taking advantage of it!
Third, let me say: You know how in the program some will say: ...the higher power of my understanding, whom I call God, or whom I call (fill in blank)???
I was thinking about that one day....wondering what word or name do I assign for the "higher power of my understanding"....here is my statement:
........the higher power of my understanding, whom I call Marcel Duchamp........
*there is no other thread I could share this on*
Thank you for indulging me.
Have a lovely.
Second, let me say, I am so glad you are taking advantage of it!
Third, let me say: You know how in the program some will say: ...the higher power of my understanding, whom I call God, or whom I call (fill in blank)???
I was thinking about that one day....wondering what word or name do I assign for the "higher power of my understanding"....here is my statement:
........the higher power of my understanding, whom I call Marcel Duchamp........
*there is no other thread I could share this on*
Thank you for indulging me.
Have a lovely.
Sarah...this is one of my favorites.
Gerogre Serault
shows people of all different classes in a park. The tiny juxtaposed dots of multi- colored paint allow the eye of the viewer to blend colors optically, rather than having the colors blended on the canvas or pre-blended as a material pigment. It took Seurat two years to complete this ten foot wide painting, and he spent much time in the park sketching to prepare for the work (there are about 60 studies).
Sunday Afternoon is right here in Chicago
Sarah, Marcel Duchamp -- so your HP is both creative and playful. That's great. My HP is too.
Morning Tim, Are you going to try pointilism yourself now? Did you get to see the exhibit again yesterday? JMO, I think you should go every Thursday (every day you don't have anything else to do, every day the weather is bad) until the show closes. I read MFAH is having a Brett Weston exhibit later this year. You are so lucky.
Danny, I spent many, many winter days at the Art Institute; when it was too cold to take the babies out, I would walk them round the museum for hours. It's always a little surreal, when you've seen reproductions of a painting all your life, to be confronted by the original, in the flesh. Like the first time I saw Sunday in the Park or the Mona Lisa for real -- LOL, I kept thinking there should be a price tag hanging off it.
Morning Tim, Are you going to try pointilism yourself now? Did you get to see the exhibit again yesterday? JMO, I think you should go every Thursday (every day you don't have anything else to do, every day the weather is bad) until the show closes. I read MFAH is having a Brett Weston exhibit later this year. You are so lucky.
Danny, I spent many, many winter days at the Art Institute; when it was too cold to take the babies out, I would walk them round the museum for hours. It's always a little surreal, when you've seen reproductions of a painting all your life, to be confronted by the original, in the flesh. Like the first time I saw Sunday in the Park or the Mona Lisa for real -- LOL, I kept thinking there should be a price tag hanging off it.
Gina
.......not without a fifth of scotch.LOL
2 years to complete a painting? Argh,like I really have that kind of patience.
I didn't make it back there yesterday because of an appointment.It's here till May but I will go back three or four times.I want to study the Cassalt's a bit more.
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.......not without a fifth of scotch.LOL
2 years to complete a painting? Argh,like I really have that kind of patience.
I didn't make it back there yesterday because of an appointment.It's here till May but I will go back three or four times.I want to study the Cassalt's a bit more.
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LOL, Didn't Seurat go crazy and die at age 32?
G- I've seen the Mona Lisa also and thought Da Vinci sure was good with those crayons...
I love the Art Institute..my favorite there is
which is an odd place..just kind of lumped in with other painings in wing off to the side..
I love the Art Institute..my favorite there is
which is an odd place..just kind of lumped in with other painings in wing off to the side..
Danny, I think the two things I miss the most about Chicago (and I don't miss much) are the Art Institute and Brookfield zoo.
If you like Dali, next time you're in Tampa, the Dali museum there is fantastic. They have sketches he did in early adolescence. LMAO, A couple of them shocked the socks off my MIL. He was one weird guy. The boys loved it.
If you like Dali, next time you're in Tampa, the Dali museum there is fantastic. They have sketches he did in early adolescence. LMAO, A couple of them shocked the socks off my MIL. He was one weird guy. The boys loved it.
My brothers and I sneaked into Brookfield Zoo in the middle of the night, when we were kids..but that is another story..hehe
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I think he had syphilis and had his leg amputated but I better double check that.It may be another artist I'm thinking of.
Danny-I love Dali.They have a bunch of his work at the Menill museum.
Correction.....It was Edouard Manet.
Manet died of untreated syphilis, which he contracted in his forties. The disease caused him considerable pain and partial paralysis from locomotor ataxia in the years prior to his death.
His left foot was amputated because of gangrene, an operation followed eleven days later by his death. He died at the age of fifty-one in Paris in 1883, and is buried in the Cimetire de Passy in the city.
Manet died of untreated syphilis, which he contracted in his forties. The disease caused him considerable pain and partial paralysis from locomotor ataxia in the years prior to his death.
His left foot was amputated because of gangrene, an operation followed eleven days later by his death. He died at the age of fifty-one in Paris in 1883, and is buried in the Cimetire de Passy in the city.
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Go on, tell the story, you Irish thug, LOL.
Tim,
There's a book by Sue Roe The Private Lives of the Impressionists that is a good read. Manet also had an illegitimate son whose existence his family tried to cover up. The weight of all those secrets -- maybe it came out in rebellious art.
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I'm sure a few of them were not opposed to sucking on an opium bong every now and then.
Oh, I'm sure they were, Tim. Gauguin died of syphilis at 54, and was an alcoholic for the last 15 of those years. Most of them were poverty-stricken. They were self-medicating. I've often wondered how prozac would have affected the Impressionist movement.
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Unfortunately,not well.Art and psychosis tend to be symbiotic.
Madness tends to generate visions not experienced by the well-balanced individulas.LOL
So when do we get to see your Angst series, Tim?
