“Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.” — Claude Monet
Is this a Monet? I can’t remember, but it’s my favorite photo of my day at the Art Institute.
Monet’s Water Lilies are my favorite. Next time I’m in Paris, I plan on visiting them in the Orangerie.
“People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.” - Edgar Degas
I only took ballet for a few years when I was a little girl, but I still love the grace, the costumes, the shoes…Perhaps that is why I always return to Repetto when I’m in Paris.
Evolution of Dance from Degas to Toulouse Lautrec
“Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.” — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Renoir is famous for saying, “One morning, one of us ran out of black; it was the birth of Impressionism.” While it’s true that bright colors are the focus and very little black is used in Impressionism, it is Renoir’s juxtaposition of pastels with deep, almost-black blues that makes him my favorite Impressionist.
“The inability of some critics to connect the dots doesn’t make pointillism pointless.” - Georges Seurat
Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte (A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte), Seurat 1884
Doesn’t everybody do this?
“Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.” — Gerard Manley Hopkins
#Capture52 #capture52week10 #eggs #spring
“It’s not easy being green.” — Kermit the Frog (especially in Wisconsin in March)
Maybe I should have chosen brown. Nonetheless, bring on the 31-day challenge to feature the color green!
