Vincent van Gogh, in his own words… “Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.” Vincent Van Gogh “I don’t know … Continue reading #FridayPainting: Vincent Van Gogh “Starry Night over the Rhône”
What a miserable sad thing it is to be fit for painting only and nothing else. Ford Madox Brown Art galleries hold stories. They are clearly evident in artwork which … Continue reading #Friday Painting: Ford Maddox Brown “The Irish Girl”
Juan Roig y Soler is an unknown name to me. To find information about his life and art, I happened upon Wikipedia in Spanish. I used a translator app to … Continue reading #FridayPainting: Juan Roig y Soler “Two Spanish Dancers”
“The Orchard” by Thomas Cooper Gotch was the perfect way to end the week which celebrated Earth Day, William Shakespeare’s birthday and World Book Day. It is easy to see … Continue reading #FridayPainting: Thomas Cooper Gotch “The Orchard”
“A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke” Today, I met up with my sister, … Continue reading #FridayPainting: Vincent van Gogh “Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe”
“A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.” Louis Armstrong Ah, the Mona Lisa, by Leonardo da Vinci, is the quintessential archetypal … Continue reading #FridayPainting: Leonardo da Vinci “The Mona Lisa”
Thomas Cooper Gotch aka T.C. Gotch, English painter and book illustrator, was linked to the Pre-Raphaelite movement. The romantic style of the Pre-Raphaelites is clearly portrayed in Thomas Gotch’s painting … Continue reading #FridayPainting: Thomas Cooper Gotch “The Child Enthroned”
Saint Cecilia is known as a patron of music and musicians. Legend has it that when the musicians played at her wedding, Cecilia sang to the Divine. November 22nd is … Continue reading #FridayPainting: John Melhuish Strudwick “Saint Cecilia”
My #FridayPainting was not a painting at all. It was a photograph. The question that came to me: when did photography become art? Perhaps the better question is: when did … Continue reading #FridayPainting: English photographer “Portrait of Virginia Woolf”
The red hat attracted my attention as did the model’s delicate Japanese fan and the elegant positioning of her hand on cheek. I had never heard of the artist, Alfred … Continue reading #FridayPainting: Alfred Henry Maurer “Model with a Japanese Fan”
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” Henri Toulouse-Lautrec Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is among the best-known painters of the Post-Impressionist period, along … Continue reading #FridayPainting: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec “In the Salon of the Rue des Moulins”
Joos van Cleve (1485 -1541) was celebrated for his traditional techniques of Early Netherlandish painting which was influenced by more contemporary Renaissance painting styles. He was a leading painter active … Continue reading #FridayPainting: Joos van Cleve (1485 -1541) “Queen Eleanor of France”
