Title: Masked Ball at the Opera, 1873 Artist: Edouard Manet (French, 1832-1883) This week I am spotlighting the work of French master Edouard Manet, who although he was not a […]
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Arts Everyday Living: Happy Birthday Mary Cassatt–On the Seashore, Building Sandcastles
Title: Children Playing on the Beach, 1884 Artist: Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) Today, May 22, is the 182th birthday of Mary Cassatt. How many hours have they been sitting along the […]
Arts Everyday Living: In the Age of Napoleon–Art & Beauty of the Horse, Symbol of Romanticism
Title: Mounted Trumpeters of Napoleon’s Imperial Guard, 1813/1814 Artist: Theodore Gericault, French, 1791-1824 For more on this painting, click: https://www.nga.gov/artworks/53161-mounted-trumpeters-napoleons-imperial-guard In the public domain, courtesy […]
Arts Everyday Living: Van Gogh’s Mysterious Obsession-Eternal Cypresses, Spiritual Guardians
Title: Cypresses, 1889 Artist: Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) A Painting to Remember For more on this work of art, click: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437980 The Metropolitan Museum of […]
Arts Everyday Living: Best Friends & Companions–Seven Year Old Owner with Tiniest of Dogs
Portrait of Maria Frederike van Reede-Athlone at Seven Years of Age, 1755-1756 Artist: Jean-Etienne Liotard (Swiss 1702-1789) A PAINTING TO REMEMBER FOR TODAY To learn more about this work […]
Arts Everyday Living: Toulouse Lautrec and the Mysterious Woman—Was He In Love?
Title: The Passenger in Cabin 54—Cruise, 1896 Artist: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) Women played a significant role in Lautrec’s artistic career, many of them the dancers and singers of […]
Arts Everyday Living: A Day in the Country with Degas—Magnificence of Flowers, Garden Bounty
Title: A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?), 1865 Artist: Edgar Degas (1834-1917) To learn more about the work of art above, click: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436121 […]
Arts Everyday Living: John Singer Sargent, Portrait of Childhood, Girl with the Yellow Bows
Title: Charlotte Cram, 1900 Artist: John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) A Painting to Remember for Today Her name was Charlotte Agatha Winthrop Cram, quite a long name for a seven […]
Arts Everyday Living: A Moment with Matisse–A Woman, Goldfish Bowl, & Memory of Morocco
Title: Woman Before an Aquarium, 1921-1923 Artist: Henri Matisse (1869-1954) How long has she been entranced by the delicate goldfish swimming back and forth before her? Is she studying them? […]
Arts Everyday Living: Best Friends & Companion–Art of the Cat, Ruler of the Domestic Universe
Title: Winter–Cat on a Cushion, 1909 Artist: Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen (1859-1923) It may be currently spring, but here’s a memory of winter. His (or her) majesty the cat–ruler of the domestic […]
