Nurse Reading to a Little Girl by Mary Cassatt, 1895
Nurse Reading to a Little Girl by Mary Cassatt, 1895
Books in Art: Nurse Reading to a Little Girl by Mary Cassatt
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Tag Archives: Paintings
Darwin on Poetry
“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”-Charles Darwin
The Drawbridge by Vincent van Gogh, 1888. I’d add “look at beautiful things as often as possible” to the list.
30 March 1853: Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh was born on 30 March 1853.
A portrait of the artist:
Portrait of Vincent van Gogh by John Peter Russell, 1886. It is no wonder Kirk Douglas played the painter in the 1956 film adaptation of Irving Stone’s novel, Lust for Life.
Books in Art: Le Bain by Alfred Stevens
Le Bain by Alfred Stevens
Le Bain by Alfred Stevens
Writers in Art: Vladimir Solovyov by Ivan Kramskoy, 1885
Vladimir Solovyov by Ivan Kramskoy, 1885
Vladimir Solovyov by Ivan Kramskoy, 1885
Place du Theatre-Francais, Spring by Camille Pissarro
Place du Theatre-Francais, Spring by Camille Pissarro (1898)
Place du Theatre-Francais, Spring by Camille Pissarro (1898)
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”-Hal Borland
Writers in Art: Leo Tolstoy Barefoot by Ilya Repin, 1901
Leo Tolstoy Barefoot by Ilya Repin, 1901.
Leo Tolstoy Barefoot by Ilya Repin, 1901.
Interminable Winter
Winter always looks nicer in paintings. Majestic. Charming. Unblemished. Like this:
Winter Morning by Andrei Ryabushkin, 1903.
I’m done trying to fancy up the season with quotes by intelligent, creative dead people. If they were here, they’d probably be annoyed, too.
Off Topic Post: Goodbye, Gustav Klimt!
Austrian artist Gustav Klimt died on 6 February 1918. He was fifty-five.
A few of his paintings:
Der Park by Gustav Klimt, 1909-1910.
Marie Hennenberg by Gustav Klimt.
Nixen (Silberfische) by Gustav Klimt, circa 1899.
The artist:
Gustav Klimt.
“True relaxation, which would do me the world of good, does not exist for me.”-Gustav Klimt
Happy 140th Birthday, Gertrude Stein: 3 Quotes and a Portrait
Gertrude Stein was born on 3 February 1874.
Gertrude Stein by Félix Vallotton, 1907.
“It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.”
“Let me listen to me and not to them.”
“Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous.”
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