Tired of the cold and snow of winter? Australian Rupert Bunny (1864-1947) and Finn Askeli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931) both prepare us for the warmer months, featuring women as the symbols of the coming seasons.
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Arts Everyday Living: Winter into Summer—A Old Tree by a Lake, A Rose Bush in a Garden
Are you tired of winter already? Yet, the lake view above by Danish painter Johan Thomas Lundbye (1818-1848) is almost inviting, on a bright sunny day. Can you even imagine yourself sitting on the wooden bench? Or perhaps the empty chair next to Marie Kroyer, the artist wife of Danish master Peder Severin Kroyer […]
Arts Everyday Living: Through a Symbolist Artist’s Eyes—Dreaming of Autumn
French artist Armand Point (1860, 1861-1932) was influenced by the Symbolist movement, evident in his two interpretations of autumn, combining ethereal models with dream-like surroundings.
Arts Everyday Living: Through an American Impressionist Eyes–Midsummer into Autumn
Although American Impressionist Willard Metcalf (1858-1925) traveled widely (including Monet’s home at Giverny), he returned to his roots in New England in his later career. The theme of landscape was his forte; studying and interpreting the changing seasons, he has portrayed so expressively in Midsummer Shadows and Le Sillon.
Arts Everyday Living: Through the Eyes of a Canadian Artist—On the Edge of Spring
Canadian artist Tom Thomson (1877-1917) is considered one of the outstanding landscape painters of Canada, creating many of his works of art in Algonquin Park in central Ontario throughout the changing seasons.
Arts Everyday Living: Through a Canadian Artist’s Eyes—A Memory of Indian Summer
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 […]
Arts Everyday Living: Autumn is Coming—Woman with Chrysanthemums
Romanian artist Stefan Luchian (1868-1916) eventually achieved success in his country, but also had to struggle with chronic disease of multiple sclerosis.
Arts Everyday Living: Through Impressionist Eyes–Many Moods of Winter
Two interpretations of the winter season by Impressionists French artist Claude Monet (1840-1926) and American painter Childe Hassam (1859-1935).
Arts Everyday Living: The Height of Color—Through the Eyes of a Swiss Artist
Swiss artist Ferdinand Hodler (1853-1918) was one of the great portrayer of mountains, often defining their massive heights with unforgettable colors, whether in his native country or in France (where Petit Saleve is located).
Arts Everyday Living: A Walk with Van Gogh—Welcome to Autumn
Of all the periods of his artistic career, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) probably created the greatest number of autumn scenes while living with his parents in Nuenen, Netherlands during 1884 and 1885.
