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#FridayPainting: Umberto Boccioni “Donna in Giardino”
“We must now learn to draw inspiration from the tangible miracles that surround us.” Umberto Boccioni Umberto Boccioni, Woman in the a Garden (Donna in Giardino) 1910 (Public Domain) As I look deep...
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#FridayPainting: Claude Monet “A Path in Monet’s Garden in Giverny”
“Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything,my head is bursting with it.” Claude Monet “Everyone discusses my art and...
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#FridayPainting: Egon Schiele “Portrait of a Woman”
“Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.” Egon Schiele What is the message in a portrait? Egon Schiele’s 1909 “Portrait of a Woman”...
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The Passing of a Great Queen
William Lionel Wyllie: The Passing of a Great Queen (c) Walker Art Gallery; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation Queen Victoria’s funeral was held 120 years ago today. ChasingART is...
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#Friday Painting: Émile Joachim Constant Puyo “The Straw Hat”
Émile Joachim Constant Puyo “The Straw Hat” Oil Pigment Print, Cincinnati Art Museum Today’s painting is a photograph by the French photographer, Émile Joachim Constant Puyo,who lived from 1857 to...
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#FridayPainting: Edward Burne-Jones “Portrait of Denis Mackail” Grandson of...
“The more materialistic science becomes, the more angels shall I paint. Their wings are my protest in favor of the immortality of the soul.” Edward Burne-Jones Portrait of Denis Mackail, Grandson of...
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#FridayPainting: Paul Signac “Notre Dame”
“The golden age has not passed; it lies in the future.” Paul Signac Life is constantly evolving. Nothing remains constant. So, it is with gratitude that I view Paul Signac’s “Notre Dame,” a...
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#FridayPainting: Joos van Cleve (1485 -1541) “Queen Eleanor of France”
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...
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#FridayPainting: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec “In the Salon of the Rue des Moulins”
“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...
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#FridayPainting: Alfred Henry Maurer “Model with a Japanese Fan”
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 Henry Maurer (1868–1932) before I...
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#FridayPainting: English photographer “Portrait of Virginia Woolf”
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 the art community accept...
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#FridayPainting: John Melhuish Strudwick “Saint Cecilia”
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 dedicated to her memory, with music...
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#FridayPainting: Thomas Cooper Gotch “The Child Enthroned”
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...
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#FridayPainting: Leonardo da Vinci “The Mona Lisa”
“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 masterpiece of the Italian...
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#FridayPainting: Vincent van Gogh “Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe”
“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, Sarah, and mother, Frances, via Zoom to discuss...
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#FridayPainting: Thomas Cooper Gotch “The Orchard”
“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 that nature is the perfect...
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#FridayPainting: Juan Roig y Soler “Two Spanish Dancers”
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 provide a brief background. Born in Barcelona...
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#Friday Painting: Ford Maddox Brown “The Irish Girl”
Ford Madox Brown, “the Irish Girl” 1860 Oil on canvas laid down on board. What a miserable sad thing it is to be fit for painting only and nothing else. Ford Madox Brown Art galleries hold stories....
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#FridayPainting: Vincent Van Gogh “Starry Night over the Rhône”
Vincent van Gogh, in his own words… Starry Night over the Rhône “Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.” Vincent Van Gogh “I don’t know...
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#FridayPainting: Édouard Manet “A Bar at the Folies-Bergère”
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère was to be Édouard Manet last major work. This has always been a difficult painting for me to view as it depicts a scene in the Folies Bergère nightclub in Paris. “The...
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