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JOHN SINGER SARGENT ~ A VISION

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“I don’t dig beneath the surface for things that don’t appear before my own eyes.”

John Singer Sargent

At Torre Galli: Ladies in a Garden
John Singer Sargent – 1910

Pomegranates
John Singer Sargent – 1908

 

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VINCENT VAN GOGH ~ TO LIVE MORE MUSICALLY

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“In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.”
― Vincent van Gogh

The Old Tower in the Fields, 1884

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JAMES TISSOT ~ IMAGINATION

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Summer, 1878, James Tissot.

“It is imagination that inflames the passions by painting in a fascinating or terrible fashion an object which impresses us.”

James Jacques Tissot (1836-1902)

Study for (also known as Woman in an Interior)
James Tissot – circa 1883-1885

James Jacques Joseph Tissot (1836-1902)
“Holiday” c1876

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PAUL GAUGUIN ~ BEAUTY

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Blue Trees, 1888

“Moved by an unconsious sentiment born out of solitude and savagery – idle tales of a noughty child who sometimes reflects and who is always a lover of the beautiful – the beauty that is personal – the only beauty that is human.”
― Paul Gauguin, Intimate Journals

Clovis Gauguin asleep, 1884

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CLAUDE MONET ~ A DESIRE TO DO EVERYTHING

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“Everyday I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.”
― Claude Monet

Water Lilies (detail), 1914, 1917

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GUSTAVE COURBET ~ BEAUTY

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“Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.”
― Gustave Courbet

Gustave Courbet (French, Realism, 1819–1877)

 Still Life with Apples and Pears, 1871

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FRANCISCO DE GOYA ~ LIGHT AND SHADOW

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“Always lines, never forms! But where do they find these lines in Nature? For my part I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is only light and shadow.”
― Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

El Quitasol, 1777

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DON QUIXOTE ~ ON MADNESS

“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams

PICASSO ~ ART IS A LIE

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Stuffed Shirts (Les Plastrons)
Pablo Picasso – 1900
 We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.”
― Pablo Picasso
Woman with feathered hat
Pablo Picasso.

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DON QUIXOTE ~ ON MADNESS

“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams

JAVIER MARIAS ~ ILLUSIONS

“Illusions are important. What you remember can be as important as what really happens.” Javier Marias

FRIDA KAHLO ~ THE ACCIDENTS IN MY LIFE

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“There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.”
Frida Kahlo

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CEZANNE ~ ART AND EMOTION

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“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.”

― Paul Cézanne

Still Life with Apples and a Pear
Paul Cezanne – 1888-1890

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Still life by Giorgio Morandi

THE SURREALITY OF GIORGIO MORANDI

THE SURREALITY/REALITY OF GIORGIO MORANDI. Giorgio Morandi (1890 -1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker. “There is nothing more surreal,

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