Paintings - A Personal Choice: September 2016

Friday, September 30, 2016

THE NORTH SEA IN STORMY WEATHER AFTER SUNSET (1909)

Laurits Tuxen 1853-1927 Nationality - Danish

No.43

The new blog

POETRY PATHWAYS

begins tomorrow

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Thursday, September 29, 2016

MORGAN-le-FAY (1863/4)

Anthony Frederick Sandys 1829-1904

No.42

Morgan-le-Fay was a powerful enchantress in Arthurian legend.

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Wednesday, September 28, 2016

LiIGHTBALLS (c.1890)

Slava Raskaj 1877-1906 Nationality - Croatian

No.41

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Tuesday, September 27, 2016

THE DINING ROOM IN THE COUNTRY (1913)

Pierre Bonnard 1867-1947 Nationality - French

No.40

The new blog
POETRY PATHWAYS
begins on Saturday and then will be updated every weekend
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Monday, September 26, 2016

THE ADMIRING GLANCE

Auguste Toulmouche 1829-90

No.39

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Sunday, September 25, 2016

TOWING A BOAT AT HONFLEUR (1864)

Claude Monet 1840-1926 Nationality - French

No.38

A new blog begins on Saturday 1st October
POETRY PATHWAYS
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Saturday, September 24, 2016

STROLLING ALONG THE SEASHORE (1909)

Joaquin Sorolla 1863-1923 Nationality - Spanish

No.37

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Friday, September 23, 2016

STILL LIFE OF FLOWERS IN A GLASS EPERGNE ON A MARBLE

LEDGE WITH GLOVES, WICKER BASKET AND SCISSORS

Eloise Harriet Stannard 1829-1915

No.36

JOHN'S SCRAPBLOG

has been updated today

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Thursday, September 22, 2016

LA LENADORA (1886)

Edward Atkinson Hornel 1864-1933 Nationality - Scottish

No.35

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Wednesday, September 21, 2016

WOMAN BRUSHING HER HAIR

Josef Pankiewicz 1866-1940

No.34

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Tuesday, September 20, 2016

THREE OF A KIND

by BRUNO LILJEFORS 1860-1939 Nationality - Swedish

No.1 - Winter Hare (1908)

No. 2 - Swans (1920)

No.3 - Swifts (1886)

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Monday, September 19, 2016

FOUR BATHERS

Theo van Rysselbergh 1862-1926

No.32

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Sunday, September 18, 2016

THE ROSES OF HELIOGABALUS (1888)

Lawrence Alma-Tadema 1836-1912 Nationality - Dutch

No.31

The painting depicts the Roman Emperor Elagabalus, also known as Heliogabalus, smothering his unsuspecting guests with rose petals released from a false ceiling.

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Saturday, September 17, 2016

WESTMINSTER ABBEY WITH A PROCESSION OF KNIGHTS OF THE BATH, 1749

Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto 1697-1768 Nationality - Italian

No.30

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Friday, September 16, 2016

HEART OF SNOW

Edward Robert Hughes 1851-1914 Nationality - English

No.29

JOHN'S SCRAPBLOG
was updated today
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Thursday, September 15, 2016

SUMMER 1909

Frank Weston Benson 1862-1951 Nationality - American

No.28

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Wednesday, September 14, 2016

WHERE DO WE COME FROM? WHO ARE WE? WHERE ARE WE GOING? (1897)

Paul Gauguin 1843-1903

No.27

I found the following in Wikipedia - Gauguin indicated that the painting should be read from right to left, with the three major figure groups illustrating the questions posed in the title. The three women with a child represent the beginning of life; the middle group symbolises the daily existence of young adulthood; and in the final group, according to the artist, "an old woman approaching death appears reconciled and resigned to her thoughts"; at her feet, "a strange white bird...represents the futility of words." The blue idol in the background apparently represents what Gauguin described as "the Beyond." Of its entirety he said, "I believe that this canvas not only surpasses all my preceding ones, but that I shall never do anything better - or even like it."

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