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Arts Everyday Living: William Merritt Chase and his Impressionist Friends
Click on the paintings to ENLARGE them. In 1897, in New York City, a group of artists decided to break away from the increasingly conservative Society of American Artists to form The Ten American...
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Arts Everyday Living: Discovering Spring in Art—Impressionist Childe Hassam &...
Click on the painting of Washington Square to enlarge it. Childe Hassam, Washington Arch, Spring, 1890, o.c., The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. …This portion of New York appears to many...
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Arts Everyday Living: A Week at the Museum—Australian, American...
It’s winter “down under” and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne is now offering a guaranteed escape from the weather with AUSTRALIAN IMPRESSIONISTS IN FRANCE that just opened on June 15....
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Arts Everyday Living: Impressionists This Winter—A New York Wonderland At Night
Click on the painting to enlarge it. Brrr—it’s cold. It may be 1891 but the chill of the frosty night portrayed in Cab Stand at Night, Madison Square above can be still be felt by us in 2013....
View ArticleArts Everyday Living: The Art of Relaxing—Your Own Special Impressionist Island
Click on the work of art to enhance or enlarge it. THE ART OF RELAXING THE LAST DAYS I’m already preparing to leave my temporary summer haven. Is the woman, in another work by Childe Hassam...
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Arts Everyday Living: The Art of Tranquility—The Impressionist Vermeer
Click on the work of art to enlarge or enhance it. THE ART OF TRANQUILITY THROUGH AN ARTIST’S EYES How many times has she marveled at The Blue Cup, examining with pleasure its perfect dimensions...
View ArticleArts Everyday Living: Roses are Forever—the Diamond of Flowers
Click on the pastel to enlarge or enhance it. ROSES ARE FOREVER: THE JEWEL OF FLOWERS I’d rather roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. Emma Goldman (A note to readers: my blog will be...
View ArticleArts Everyday Living: Forgotten Impressionists—Robert Reid, In the Eye of Beauty
FORGOTTEN IMPRESSIONISTS IN THE EYE OF BEAUTY She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes….....
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Arts Everyday Living: Forgotten Impressionists–Poppies Forever, Fields of France
PLEASE be certain to click on the painting to ENLARGE it. FORGOTTEN IMPRESSIONISTS POPPIES FOREVER! ____________________ ____________________ …..Here is a brighter garden, Where not a frost has...
View ArticleArts Everyday Living: Random Impressions—Dreaming Among White Birch Trees
BE CERTAIN to click on the painting to ENLARGE it! DREAMING AMONG WHITE BIRCH TREES RANDOM IMPRESSIONS Have you heard of the American Impressionist Robert Reid and his Reverie? Click to...
View ArticleArts Everyday Living: Random Impressions with Cassatt—A Box at the Theater
RANDOM IMPRESSIONS WITH CASSATT A BOX AT THE PARIS THEATER Mary Cassatt is remembered best for her unforgettable depictions of maternal love, but she also was inspired by the audience at...
View ArticleArts Everyday Living: Through an Impressionist’s Eyes–the Art of the Blizzard
Click on the work of art to enlarge or enhance it. THE ART OF THE BLIZZARD! THROUGH AN IMPRESSIONIST’S EYES ____________________ ____________________ American impressionist John Henry...
View ArticleArts Everyday Living: Winter Intermezzo—New England Island, Eternal Summer
Please click on the work of art to enlarge or enhance it. WINTER INTERMEZZO NEW ENGLAND ISLAND, ETERNAL SUMMER …..there shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.* Celia Thaxter, poet...
View ArticleArts Everyday Living: Youth, Disillusionment, and the Necessity of Hope
Click on the work of art to enlarge or enhance it. THE YOUNG ORPHAN NECESSITY OF HOPE Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained. Seamus Heaney, Irish...
View ArticleArts Everyday Living: Dream River–Monet’s Giverny Through an Impressionist’s...
Click on the work of art to enlarge or enhance it. DREAM RIVER AT GIVERNY THROUGH AN IMPRESSIONIST’S EYES ____________________ ____________________ Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide down...
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