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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

ABC Wednesday - I is for Ingres

I is for Ingres

Jean Augueste Dominique Ingres

29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867

Self-portrait at age 24

1804

Ingres was a French Neo-Classicism painter. He considered himself a painter of history but ultimately he is best known for his portrait paintings and drawings.

Napoleon on his Throne
1806

"Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters." ~ Ingres

The Bather of Valpinçon

1808Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France

Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Desdéban.

1810

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Besançon, France

"The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts are all sons of Homer."

Le Grande Odalisque

1814

Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France

Antiochus and Stratonice

1840

Oil on canvas. Musée Condé, Chantilly, France

"As long as you do not hold a balance between your seeing of things and your execution, you will do nothing that is really good."

Portrait of Countess D'Haussonville

1845Frick Collection, New York City

Sources

Olga's Gallery

Art in the Picture

Participating in ABC Wednesday

Friday, December 31, 2010

Happy Birthday Henri Matisse ( December 31, 1869-November 3, 1954)

Self-Portrait

December 31, 1869-November 3, 1954

Henri Matisse

"If I trust my drawing hand it is because in training it to serve me, I forced myself never to let it take precedence over my feelings." ~ Henri Matisse

Sources:

Davis Art Education Catalog

Matisse: Life and Painting

Art Knowledge News

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Artist of the Week and ABC Wednesday

R is for Redon

Bertrand-Jean Redon, better known as Odilon Redon (April 20, 1840 – July 6, 1916) was a French Symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and pastellist.

"A title is justified only when it is vague and even aims confusedly at the elliptical. My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They determine nothing. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined. They are a kind of metaphor..."

Beatrice

1885

pastel over charcoal; private collection

The Golden Cell

1892

Oil and gold metallic paint on paper prepared with white ground;The British Museum

"The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence."

The Boat, aka with Carona

1898

"While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt."

Ophelia

c. 1900-05

Pastel on paper mounted on board, The Woodner Collection

"I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance. But the day left me sad and with an unsatiated thirst. The next day I let the other source run, that of imagination through the recollection of the forms and I was then reassured and appeased." ~ Redon

Flower Clouds

1903

Pastel; The Art Institute of Chicago

"What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art."

Le Bouddha (The Buddha)

c. 1905

Pastel on paper; Musee d'Orsay, Paris

"I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops."

Red Boat with Blue Sail
1906-07

Oil on canvas, Private collection

Silence (Le silence)

1911

Profile and Flowers

1912

Pastel on paper, McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX

"I have a feeling only for shadows."

The Red Sphinx
c. 1912

Oil on canvas,Private collection

Anemonies In A Blue Vase

If you'd like you can also check out The Pagan's Eye, my blog of original photos. This week, there are several photos shot in rural Southern Vermont. I snapped a moment of Austrian old world charm we came upon while taking a Sunday drive and explored the history of the Green River Bridge and Timber Crib Dam, which was our destination.

Peace to everyone out there in the world!

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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Artist of the Week and ABC Wednesday, Letter M - Matisse

Henri Matisse

(1869 – 1954)

Self-Portrait

1900

Henri Matisse was a French artist, known for his use of color and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Picasso, as one of the two seminal artists of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. Although he was initially labelled a Fauve (wild beast), by the 1920s he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting. His mastery of the expressive language of colour and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art.

Woman Reading

1894

He first started to paint in 1889, when his mother had brought him art supplies during a period of convalescence following an attack of appendicitis. He discovered "a kind of paradise" as he later described it,^[ and decided to become an artist, deeply disappointing his father.

The Maid

1896

Nude with a White Wash Towel

1902-03

"What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape: it is the human figure."

Blue Nude

1905

Le bonheur de vivre (The Joy of Life)

1905-06

"Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance."

Marguiritte

(the artist's daughter)

1906

Madame Matisse

(the artist's first wife)

1907

Dance I

1909

"When I put a green, it it not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky."

Dance II

1910

Seville Still-Life

1910-1911

"Expression, for me, does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of my picture is expressive; the place occupied by the figures, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything has its share."

The Goldfish

1912

"I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish."

The White Feather

1919

Odalesque with Red Pants

1921

Odalesque with Gray Pants

1927

"Creativity takes courage."

The Romanian Green Blouse

1939

"The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the model."

Still-Life with Shellfish

1940

"I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have the light joyousness of springtime, which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me...."