Maria Yakunchikova ~ Russian Painter (1870-1902 )

Published on 21 May 2020 in Women with a Passion for Art by Monique

MARIA YAKUNCHIKOVA (1870-1902)

WOMEN WITH A PASSION FOR ART

The first female artist I want to introduce in the series Women with a Passion for Art is Maria Yakunchikova. After seeing one of her paintings called Reflection of an Intimate World I immediately fell in love with it. Therefore I like to share some of her paintings with you. Enjoy!

Maria Vasilievna Yakunchikova-Weber was a Russian painter, graphic artist, and embroiderer. Yakunchikova was associated with the Abramtsevo artists, especially with her teacher Elena Polenova. Polenova ,whose revival of traditional handicrafts inspired Maria to embroider and to execute pokerwork.

Apple Trees in Bloom 1899

Between 1887 and 1889 she began to collect folk art. Landscape art remained her favourite genre. She was inspired to plein air painting by Elena Polenova.

View from the Old House’s Window
– 1897

Maira Yakunchikova died on December 27, 1902 near Geneva, Switzerland. She was just 32 years old.

Reflection of an intimate world
– 1894

The Terrace – 1899

Street with snow in Meudon, 1893

MARC AND BELLA CHAGALL ~ A LOVE UNION

Published on 25 February 2017 in Quoting the Artist ~ Thoughts and Thinking... by Monique

MARC AND BELLA CHAGALL ~ A COLORFUL LOVE

“In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.”

Marc Chagall

Photo: Marc and Bella Chagall, 1923, by Hugo Erfurth Keep Reading

WILLIAM BOUGUEREAU ~ A PASSION FOR PAINTING

Published on 2 December 2016 in Quoting the Artist ~ Thoughts and Thinking... by Monique

WILLIAM BOUGUEREAU AND HIS PASSION FOR PAINTING

“Each day I go to my studio full of joy; in the evening when obliged to stop because of darkness I can scarcely wait for the morning to come… My work is not only a pleasure, it has become a necessity. No matter how many other things I have in my life, if I cannot give myself to my dear painting I am miserable.” (Adolfe-William Bouguereau) Keep Reading

FERNANDO PESSOA ~ AN AWARENESS OF FEELING

Published on 27 November 2016 in The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... by Monique

Dreams by Frederic William Burton and a quote by Fernando Pessoa

Some Wisdom by Fernando Pessoa

From The Book of Disquiet written by Fernando Pessoa. (1888-1935)

“What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind that only destroys me, and an unusual capacity for dreaming to keep me entertained. A dead will and a reflection that cradles it, like a living child.”

Dreams

Frederic William Burton (1816-1900)
Dreams
Watercolor and body color over
-1861

HARUKI MURAKAMI ~ HUGE COSMIC LOVE

Published on 8 September 2016 in The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... by Monique

“Sometimes, when one is moving silently through such an utterly desolate landscape, an overwhelming hallucination can make one feel that oneself, as an individual human being, is slowly being unraveled. The surrounding space is so vast that it becomes increasingly difficult to keep a balanced grip on one’s own being. The mind swells out to fill the entire landscape, becoming so diffuse in the process that one loses the ability to keep it fastened to the physical self. The sun would rise from the eastern horizon, and cut it’s way across the empty sky, and sink below the western horizon. This was the only perceptible change in our surroundings. And in the movement of the sun, I felt something I hardly know how to name: some huge, cosmic love.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Peyrelebade Landscape, 1869
Odilon Redon

WILLEM DE KOONING ~ ON ORDER

Published on 14 March 2016 in Art of the Subconscious ~ Abstract Expressionism by Monique

“The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves”
― Willem De Kooning

WILLIAM BLAKE ~ ON IMAGINATION

Published on 11 March 2016 in Art & the Unconscious Mind by Monique

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
William Blake

William Blake (1757-1827)
Hecate or the Three Fates
Watercolor and pen and black ink
1795

LEONOR FINI ~ PAINTER OF THE SURREAL

Published on 8 March 2016 in Leonor Fini ~ Painter of the surreal by Monique

Leonor Fini by Henri Cartier Bresson,Paris-1933

MONET ~ LOVE MY ART

Published on 8 March 2016 in Quoting the Artist ~ Thoughts and Thinking... by Monique

“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”
Claude Monet

Palazzo da Mula in Venice 1908

MATISSE ~ IS AN ARTIST A PRISONER?

Published on 4 March 2016 in Quoting the Artist ~ Thoughts and Thinking... by Monique

“An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.”
Henri Matisse

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