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Cliff walk

Posted in Travel on April 29, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Went on a beautiful walk this morning .  Cliff Walk at Newport.

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Boston Museum of Fine Art

Posted in Travel, tagged on April 28, 2012| 1 Comment »

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Yesterday I got to spend the morning wandering around the MFA in Boston.  It was glorious.  I can’t wait to get home and download the photos to share. 

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Toulouse-Lautrec at PMA

Posted in Travel, tagged , on April 25, 2012| Leave a Comment »

At the Moulin Rouge:  The Dance, painted in 1890 in oil on canvas by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French 1864-1901), is an amazing painting that I saw recently at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

The artist wrote in pencil on the back of the canvas identifying the subject as Valentin le Desossee, a well-known cabaret performer shown rehearsing a new dancer at the Moulin Rouge nightclub in Paris.  After the painting was exhibited it was acquired by the owners of the Moulin Rouge where it hung over the bar for several years.  You can learn more by dialing 267-519-5646 and use #390. 

 I saw a couple of other of his paintings there including:

Carriage, 1881, oil on wood. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And of course, one of my favorites by Toulouse-Lautrec at the PMA is  Follette, 1890, oil on cardboard.  It reminded me of another painting that I love of his that I saw at the National Gallery.  You can see it here.

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Cezanne at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Posted in Travel, tagged , on April 20, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Gustave Courbet, French 1819-1877, painted the “Still Life with Apples and a Pear” in 1871 with oil on canvas.

 

 

Paul Cezanne, French, 1839-1906, painted his version of Still Life with Apples and a Glass of Wine” in 1877.   It is also an oil on canvas.

 

 

 

Another Cezanne that we saw while at the Philadelphia Museum was this “Still Life with Flowers in an Olive Jar” that he painted in 1880.

 

Cezanne painted a variety of subjects from fruit to flowers to people.

 

 

 

 

 

And you can see that he worked in a variety of styles.  The Large Bathers, painted in 1906, just before he died, is a large oil on canvas painting.  You can hear more about it by dialing into the PMA cell phone program at 267-519-5646 and this painting is number 932.

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Degas at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Posted in Travel, tagged , , on April 19, 2012| 1 Comment »

Over the next few days I want to share with you some of the wonderful art that I saw at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) this week.  Today it’s Edgar Degas that I feature.  A French painter and sculptor, he was born in 1834 and died in 1917. 

He is famous for his dancers and especially the “Little Dancer” sculpture that he did.  But did you know that the original piece, made of wax, stood in his studio for  forty years.  After he died his heirs decided to make bronze casts of it. They are completely bronze apart from the dancer’s gauze tutu and silk ribbon. There were less than thirty copies made  and many of them can now be seen in some of the world’s most best museums including Philadelphia and the National Gallery in Washington DC.

And continuing the ballet/dancer theme, this painting “The Ballet Class”, he painted in oil on canvas in 1880.  The information provided by the painting said, “Degas spent a great deal of time in the corridors and rehearsal rooms of the Opera, where he would have seen mothers like this one managing their young daughters’ careers.”

And another really interesting thing that I discovered at the PMA is their cell phone tour program.  You can dial this number, 267-519-5646 and punch in a number that relates to a particular painting, this one is #364, and hear more about the painting.  How cool is that?  Go ahead, give it a try.

How cool is that???!!!!

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More on Van Gogh in Philly

Posted in Travel, tagged , on April 18, 2012| Leave a Comment »

The Van Gogh exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art was amazing.  Sadly, they did not allow photography in the exhibit but there were other opportunities to capture Van Gogh images like these two display banners announcing the exhibit.

There were loads of people there to see the exhibit.  We got in during the first time slot so it wasn’t too bad.  Check out more about it here. 

After we visited Van Gogh we spent some time in the Impressionists galleries and the modern art gallery of the museum.  I took loads of photos that I will share with you over the next few days. 

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Wind from the Sea

Posted in Travel, tagged , on April 16, 2012| 2 Comments »

A few weeks ago I went to the National Gallery of Art with the artists from The Southerlands.  I got a few minutes to poke around a couple of galleries and ran across this wonderful painting by Andrew Wyeth (American 1917-2009) called “Wind from the Sea”, tempera on hard board, 1947.   It’s hard to get a really good idea from this photo but it literally felt like the curtains were blowing in the breeze when you looked at this painting.  Beautiful!

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Meeting New Friends

Posted in Art Class, Small Town Life, Travel, tagged , , , , , , on April 7, 2012| Leave a Comment »

One of the things I like best about working at the shop is that I meet really interesting people who are visiting our town.  Last weekend I met these nice folks who were in town for the week for Spring Break.  They were staying out at the State Park and doing fun things each day.  I invited them to come paint with us if they had time. 

Annabelle joined the extra-large class that we had on Wednesday.  See more here.   They did a great job painting and had fun too.  So nice to meet you Lori and Annabelle.

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More from the National Gallery

Posted in Travel, tagged , , on April 5, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Mary Cassett, American, 1844-1926, "Little Girl in a Blue Armchair, oil, 1878.

  As I promised yesterday I will share more paintings that we saw at the National Gallery on our visit there Tuesday. 

This is one of my favorite paintings at the National Gallery and as many times as I have seen it I never noticed how much the little pup in the chair looks like Lincoln.  This explains at lot.  Lincoln must be reincarnated.  He lived with a wealthy French family in the late 1800’s.  That’s why he is so spoiled.  🙂

See in this close-up how much he looks like Lincoln!

Edward Hopper, American, 1882-1967, "Cape Cod Evening, oil, 1939.

             

Claude Monet, French, 1840-1926, "The Japanese Footbridge, oil, 1899.

Monet, "The Artist's Garden at Vetheuil, oil, 1880.

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Visiting the National Gallery of Art

Posted in Travel, tagged , , , , , , on April 4, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Yesterday I enjoyed a wonderful visit to the National Gallery of Art with some of my students from the Southerlands.  There was 13 of us that made the trip to see the Picasso Drawings.

  No photography was allowed in that exhibit but this was the entrance poster so at least you can see what it was like.  The interesting thing was that there were probably about 50 pieces in the exhibit and probably half or more belonged to private collectors.  Really interesting.

After we finished seeing Picasso we wandered to the newly opened gallery of impressionist paintings….some of my favorites.

Paul Cezanne, French painter, 1839-1906. "The Artist's Father, Reading L'Evenement", oil, 1866.

 

Edouard Manet, French Painter, 1832-1883. "The Railway", oil, 1873.

 

Manet, "Masked Ball at the Opera", oil, 1873.

 

More to come tomorrow…

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