Category Archives: Impressionists

The Magpie by Claude Monet

Posted on January 16, 2013 by

Being in a much milder, wetter and windy climate it is always a novelty to see snow except atop distant mountains and for those of you are knee-deep in it, you have my sympathy, as I tend to agree with … Continue reading →

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The Isar near Grosshessolohe by Wassily Kandinsky (1901)

Posted on July 31, 2012 by

My last blog featured the German artist Gabriele Münter and I talked about her relationship with her one-time art teacher and lover, the Russian painter and gifted writer, Wassily Kandinsky.  Today I am going to delve into his early life … Continue reading →

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Winter Harmony by John Henry Twachtman

Posted on May 26, 2012 by

When we hear the word Impressionism we immediately think of French painters such as Monet, Renoir, Cassatt, Degas et al, but how much do we know about American Impressionists and their works?  How did the Impressionism Movement become important for … Continue reading →

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Peasant Girl Lighting a Fire. Frost, by Camille Pissarro

Posted on May 18, 2012 by

My Daily Art Display’s featured painting today is entitled Peasant Girl Lighting a Fire. Frost, which was painted by Camille Pissarro in 1888 and can now be found in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.  At this time Pissarro was still … Continue reading →

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Une loge aux Italiens (A Box at the Theatre des Italiens) by Eva Gonzalès

Posted on April 20, 2012 by

I had intended this offering to be my previous blog but when I researched into today’s featured artist and her painting I saw there was a connection between this work of hers and a similar one completed by Renoir in … Continue reading →

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La Loge by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Posted on April 18, 2012 by

Today’s featured work of art was not my original intended offering.  That sounds somewhat strange but actually there is logic to my decision.  I was researching a painting when I came across today’s work and there seemed, at least in … Continue reading →

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Camille Doncieux and Claude Monet

Posted on January 30, 2012 by

My next two blogs deal not with a particular painting but with the subject of a series of paintings completed lovingly by one artist.  The subject is Camille-Léonie Doncieux, who was the beloved model, mistress and wife of Claude Monet.  … Continue reading →

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Étretat by Various artists

Posted on January 19, 2012 by

There are many subjects depicted by artists in their paintings which are the same.  One only has to think of religious paintings and the likes of the pietà or the deposition or even the crucifixion itself to see how numerous … Continue reading →

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The Artist’s Studio, Rue de La Condamine by Frédéric Bazille

Posted on November 10, 2011 by

quem di diligunt, adolescens moritur “Whom the gods love, die young.” The aphorism comes from the Roman playwright Plautus, who flourished around the end of the 3rd century and actually based his story on a Greek legend about a mother … Continue reading →

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Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat

Posted on October 21, 2011 by

Today I am starting My Daily Art Display blog by introducing you to some new “isms” which have a connection with what is to follow.  They are Post-Impressionism, Neo-Impressionism, Pointillism and Divisionism and they all are connected in some way … Continue reading →

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