American artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was a popular portraitist, commissioned to portray the rich and the famous of his time. However, in the last decades of Sargent’s career, he concentrated on nature, including scenic views of Majorca, off the coast of Spain.
Norwegian artist Harald Sohlberg (1869-1935) created several works of art interpreting the almost mystical quality of the Nordic night during the summer, when daylight never seems to end. For more paintings by Sohlberg, see: Land of the Midnight Sun, May 13, 2020.
Reposted blog. INSIDE RUSSIAN ART PRINCE ANDREI’S TREE …Neither gnarled fingers nor old scars nor old doubts and sorrows were any of them in evidence. Through the hard century-old bark, even where there were no twigs, leaves had sprouted such as one could hardly believe the old veteran could have produced…. “Yes it […]
Norwegian artist Harald Sohlberg (1869-1935) expressed his close relationship with nature through landscapes of his native country, creating some remarkable and poetic interpretations of the night.
Reposting blog on another Canadian artist, Franklin Carmichael. AUTUMN IN WINTER A MEMORY OF INDIAN SUMMER It is only here in large portions of Canada that wondrous second wind, the Indian summer, attains its amplitude and heavenly perfection,—-the temperatures; the sunny haze; the mellow, rich delicate, almost flavored air….. Walt Whitman, Diary in […]
While I’m on vacation, here is a work by British master John Constable (1776-1837), one of the first landscape artists.
Swiss/French artist Felix Vallotton (1865-1925) created a body of landscape art depicting the many moods of nature, taking the viewer into the atmospheric conditions of a foggy day.
Emily Carr (1871-1945) is considered one of the leading Canadian artists of the twentieth century, especially known for works expressing her feelings and love for the natural landscape of her native country.
Click on the work of art to enlarge or enhance it. NORTH TO FINLAND TOWERING CLOUDS, LAKE REFLECTIONS The sky is the daily bread of our eyes. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals Finnish master Aksell Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931) and New England author Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) may have lived on different continents but they […]
Click on the work of art to enlarge or enhance it. MOUNTAIN VISIONS REJUVENATING OUR ANCIENT HOME Or do you prefer the familiar ground of terra firma? Are you drawn toward rejuvenating our ancient home that seems increasingly threatened by global warming and other consequences of human population?……… Excerpt from New Dreams, New Visions in Through […]
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