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May 11, 2012
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February 25, 2012
Canaletto - An Island in the Lagoon with a Gateway and a Church (c. 1743).
February 17, 2012
Benches at Montmagny (Val-d’Oise), 1906-1907, by Maurice Utrillo
February 10, 2012
Ferdinand Hodler, Ande Peak, Arve Valle, 1909
From the Musée d’Orsay:
Painted in 1909 and exhibited 1912 in Munich under the title Landscape, this painting by the Swiss artist Ferdinand Hodler is now called Andey Peak, Arve Valle in Haute Savoie. The exact spot could be located by the very precise representation of the mountain peaks. However, although the line of the mountain crests is exact, the rest of the pictorial surface is treated as a highly constructive painting. It leaves no room for anecdote or any animal or human presence.
Three layers of clouds rise up towards the peak. They suggest rising altitude but they also introduced a play of forms. The two lower cloud levels are parallel to the horizontal ground, the upper layer follows the curves of the mountain. A gradation of blues establishes a palpable link between the pale base and the dark alpine summit. The valley is marked by a tender green and the sky by a pale sky blue. In its decorative approach, the painting is not unlike a Japanese print.
February 10, 2012
Ferdinand Hodler, Forest Stream, 1904
January 21, 2012
Claude Monet, Vétheuil in Winter, c. 1878-79. Oil on canvas, 68.58 × 89.85 cm (27 × 35.4 in). Frick Collection, New York.
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January 13, 2012
The Window, Pierre Bonnard. French Nabi Painter (1867-1947)
January 12, 2012
Rita Angus: Cass, oil on canvas on board, 1936 (Collection Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, purchased 1955); image courtesy of the Rita Angus estate/Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu
(b Hastings, 12 March 1908; d Wellington, 26 Jan 1970
New Zealand painter. Angus studied at the Canterbury School of Art, Christchurch (1927–33). In 1930 she married the artist Alfred Cook (1907–70) and used the signature Rita Cook until 1946; they had separated in 1934. Her painting Cass (1936; Christchurch, NZ, A.G.) is representative of the regionalist school that emerged in Canterbury during the late 1920s, with the small railway station visualizing both the isolation and the sense of human progress in rural New Zealand. The impact of North American Regionalism is evident in Angus’s work of the 1930s and 1940s. However, Angus was a highly personal painter, not easily affiliated to specific movements or styles. Her style involved a simplified but fastidious rendering of form, with firm contours and seamless tonal gradations (e.g. Central Otago). Her paintings were invested with symbolic overtones, often enigmatic and individual in nature.
January 7, 2012
Russian-born French painter, Nicolas de Staël, was born Jan 5, 1914. Despite growing recognition internationally after WW II, and his friendship with many influential artists, such as Braque, the Delauneys, Jean Arp, Johnny Friedlander, a.m.o., he found it hard to adapt to the harshness of the art world. By 1953, de Staël’s depression led him to seek isolation in the south of France. He suffered from exhaustion, insomnia and depression. In the wake of a disappointing meeting with a disparaging art critic on March 16, 1955 he committed suicide. He leapt to his death from his eleventh story studio terrace, in Antibes.
Above - Nicolas de Staël: Parc de sceaux, 1952 - oil on canvas (Phillips Collection)
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