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Arts Everyday Living: Through the Eyes of a French Impressionist—On the Coast of Brittany

By Joan Hart on July 21, 2020 in Art Happenings

French artist Henry Moret (1856-1913) is considered an Impressionist, recreating the beauty of nature with the colorful approach of Monet and Renoir, among others. A favorite locale was Brittany where he befriended and worked with Paul Gauguin.

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Arts Everyday Living: Escape Social Isolation Creatively—the Sea, the Sky, and the Sand in Art

By Joan Hart on July 7, 2020 in Art Happenings

Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) is considered one of the pioneers of modern art—his art defined as abstract, often without a recognizable subject. However in By the Sea, an early work, viewers can still discern the sea, the beach, and sky, depicted in broad areas of color and form. You might want to compare the more […]

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Arts Everyday Living: A Summer Art Escape—Joaquin Sorolla, A Day at the Beach in Spain

By Joan Hart on March 22, 2020 in Art Happenings

I’m reposting this blog. Sorolla is gaining in popularity; I’m discovering more people are familiar with his name and works of art. Want to take a mini-vacation this week—at least through an artist’s eyes? I’ve been inspired to embark on my visual getaway by the discovery of the works of Joaquin Sorolla (1863-1923), a […]

Arts Everyday Living: Winslow Homer—Love in the Moonlight

By Joan Hart on July 1, 2019 in Art Happenings

I’m reposting a blog from six years ago, while I’m away. And remember to click on the work of art to enlarge it. YOU LEFT ME by Emily Dickinson You left me – Sire – two Legacies – A Legacy of Love A Heavenly Father would suffice Had the offer of – […]

Executed in the summer of 1882 during his second trip to the region, this painting was part of an intensely productive campaign: Monet himself declared that he had worked ëlike a maniací. He covered the cliffs in all directions, from Aval to Varangeville, where he painted several pictures of the fishermanís house, seen from different angles and in a range of sizes and compositions. Each view conveys a particular aspect of the light and weather. This work anticipates the series paintings that the artist would complete in years to come. The locale allowed the painter to play around with the curving cliffs which stand out against the sea. During this period with Alice HoschedÈ at his side, Monet was coping with a difficult situation, because her husband still wanted to pay regular visits to his wife.

Arts Everyday Living: Travels with Monet—The Sea at Normandy

By Joan Hart on April 7, 2019 in Art Happenings

This blog was published on October 17, 2012. I’m posting it again for my class tomorrow. Monet was raised in the Normandy region of France where he developed a life long passion for the sea, recreating its power and drama from the initial days of his career. However, in the beginning of the 1880s, […]

Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, Time for a Bath, Valencia, c. 1908-1909, oil on canvas, Museo Sorolla, Madrid, Spain

Arts Everyday Living: An Impressionist’s View—Last Holiday Weekend of Summer

By Joan Hart on September 4, 2017 in Art Happenings

We are restarting our blog with Time for a Bath, Valencia by Spanish Impressionist Joaquin Sorolla (1863-1923), celebrating the last holiday weekend of the summer.

Arts Everyday Living: Down to the Sea with Renoir–Into the Waves

By Joan Hart on February 18, 2017 in Art Happenings

DOWN TO THE SEA WITH RENOIR INTO THE WAVES There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. Victor Hugo, Les Miserables The birthdays of two giants of French arts […]

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Sunset, c. 1879, oil on canvas, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institue, Williamstown, MA

Arts Everyday Living: Sailing with Renoir—Lost in the Sunset, Beyond the Shore

By Joan Hart on March 13, 2016 in Art Happenings

SAILING WITH RENOIR LOST IN THE SUNSET, BEYOND THE SHORE One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the distant shore. Andre Gide Impressionist great Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) did not confine his creative output to portraits of women and children that are so beloved by […]

Arts Everyday Living: What is Art? Monet, Matisse, Visions of the Sea and Sky

By Joan Hart on September 1, 2015 in Art Happenings

BE CERTAIN to click on the painting to ENLARGE it. WHAT IS ART? THE SIMPLEST THINGS IN THE WORLD For very often I put myself in my pictures, and I am aware of what exists behind me. I express the space and the objects in it as naturally as though I had only […]