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• Claude Monet ~ Waterlilies and Mark Rothko

  
  Fifty Two Pieces — Authority: 127
  Yesterday View from the Couch couldnt put down the Monet and Modernism book. He had already read up on Andy Warhol and then found Mark Rothko. View had this to say... "Well of course, Rothko would be connected to Monet. This is great." Some time later View let me have the book back and I was able to read up on Rothko ...
  6 days ago

• Quotes of the Day, December 30th, 2009

  
  Mind Body Smile — Authority: 451
  1.) “Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.” ~Claude Monet 2.) “A love of nature is a consolation against failure.” ~Berthe Morisot 3.) “True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.” ...
  6 days ago

• Claude Monet ~ Waterlilies and Andy Warhol ~ Flowers

  
  Fifty Two Pieces — Authority: 127
  These two images are part of one of Andy Warhols very successful series using the flower motif. The Flowers series in 1964 was based on a photograph of hibiscus flower blossoms. Warhol saturated the large images of the flowers with intense color and put them on a verdant background. They really do seem to float off ...
  1 week ago

• Claude Monet ~ Waterlilies and Ellsworth Kelly, Tableau Vert

  
  Fifty Two Pieces — Authority: 127
  This Ellsworth Kelly painting, Tableau Vert , is the first one he painted after he returned from his trip to Giverny to see Monets home. That was back in August of 1952. Kelly had just discovered that Monet had painted work after the infamous Haystack series. Giverny had yet to be redone. When Monets stepson, Pierre ...
  1 week ago

• Claude Monet ~ Waterlilies and Irises, Favorite Flower?

  
  Fifty Two Pieces — Authority: 127
  Ah, two days after Christmas and its Monet time here at Fifty Two Pieces. The piece of the week is Monets Waterlilies . Meandering around the internet I find multiple references to Monets favorite flower. Now most of us might think it was a waterlily. After all, that was what he painted for so many years. But some ...
  1 week ago

• Claude Monet ~ Waterlilies

  
  Fifty Two Pieces — Authority: 127
  Much has been written of Claude Monets failing eyesight and how it would have affected paintings such as the Portland Art Museums Waterlilies from the period 1914-1915. As early as 1905 Monet no longer saw colors with the same intensity as he had done before. Time marched on and his perception of color continued to ...
  1 week ago

• Monet on Christmas Day

  
  Fifty Two Pieces — Authority: 127
  Monet has been in my thoughts today. Primarily about light. Light from my window here in Astoria. Start with the light from the stars at 2 am. Then the moon descending across the sky until it sets and the stars became even brighter. The overall brightness of the sky increased with the sunrise and the glow of pink on ...
  1 week ago

• Claude Monet ~ Waterlilies

  
  Fifty Two Pieces — Authority: 127
  Dateline: December 24, 2009 Today marks the first day of the last full week of Fifty Two Pieces. Its been a great year and well have a recap on December 31. For now though well move along with our piece of the week, Waterlilies by Claude Monet. Some say its the anchor of the first floor of the CMCA at the Portland ...
  1 week ago

• Art Nouveau in Argenteuil

  
  Invisible Paris — Authority: 475
  In the house where I grew up there was a reproduction of a Claude Monet painting on the wall; “Les Coquelicots à Argenteuil” a simple, bucolic creation that the painter produced in 1873. I had never visited France then, and this picture provided my vision of how the country might be. I knew that Argenteuil was ...
  4 weeks ago

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