AWAKENINGS IN ART, A YEAR OF SUNRISES
Happy New Year! Art Circle continues with the theme of the sunrise to begin 2021! Among the artists featured are: German Romantic painters Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) and Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869); another German Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841); American Hudson River School painter Frederic Church (1826-1900); and Frenchman Jules Tavernier (1844-1889) who was inspired by the landscape wonderland of Hawaii.

Caspar David Friedrich, Woman Before the Rising Sun, 1818-1820, oil on canvas, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
We turn not older with years but newer every day.
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

Caspar David Friedrich, Countryside in the Character of the Bohemian Central Uplands (Giant Mountains), c. 1830-1835, oil on canvas, location unknown
Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering it will be happier….
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

Carl Gustav Carus, Morning Peal (Old German City in Morning Light), c. 1840, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
T.S. Elliot (1888-1965)
And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been…
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)
He who kisses joy as it flies
Lives in eternity’s sunrise.
William Blake (1757-1827)

Jules Tavernier, Sunshine Over Diamond Head, detail, 1888, oil on canvas, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii
With a bound, the sun of a molten fiery red came above the horizon, and immediately thousands of little birds sang out for joy, and soft chorus of mysterious, glad murmurs came forth from the earth….
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865)