Show us something by your favorite artist.
Submitted by Miss Parker.
Monet - The sunlight pierces the smoggy sky over London's Houses of Parliament.
While Monet is most famous for his waterlilies, he painted in London between 1899 and 1901. There is a whole series of the Houses of Parliment in different conditions and time of day.
Interestingly there is now a belief that he could have inadvertently also recorded actual weather / pollution conditions present in London at that time period.
New Scientist, 09-Aug-06: Monet's art may reveal Victorian London's smog -> Journal reference: Proceedings of the Royal Society A (DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2006.1754)
I like Money. Our office has several of the prints hanging around. One of my favorite artist is Tadashi Asoma. I like his bright colors and the peaceful feeling. http://homedecorators30.artselect.com/perl/frArtistByLastName?letter=A&artist=Tadashi+Asoma&t=a Enjoy!
Posted by: Rosebay | 2006.12.06 at 15:52
I hope you've been able to see some of Monet's work, particularly any of the Parliment pieces, in person. A museum I worked at had an exhibition made up mainly of his London works, and they are breathtaking. I don't consider impressionism my favorite thing ever, but being able to see a series of these works definitely earned my respect.
Posted by: artgeek | 2006.12.07 at 14:29
I have been lucky enough to see 2 exhibits of Monet's work in the UK
Recently (2005): http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/turnerwhistlermonet/ Turner, Whistler & Monet. This picture was displayed there!
Also, I think I went to see this one (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/258984.stm) Monet in the 20th Century where they had HUGE collections :)
I am also lucky enough to have visited the Musee Marmottan Monet in Paris: http://www.marmottan.com/francais/, but not since they re-did it last year.
*grin* I am lucky to live near London and Paris, and be able to do stuff like this!
Posted by: ES | 2006.12.08 at 13:33
[this is good] I haven't had the privilege of seeing Monet's work up close. You are indeed lucky to live where you can do these things. I do love the Impressionist's work as a whole. I have seen Cézanne's work up close in an exhibit in Sydney a few years back. It too was outstanding.......Isn't the Dali Universe located near you too?..... another favorite.
Posted by: Jon Dose | 2006.12.08 at 17:18
To be honest, while I can appreciate that Dali is clever he actually holds no actual appeal for me. Picasso is another - technically wonderful but just doesn't *spark* for me.
Hubbie loves Dali, particularly the melting clocks, and there is one of elephant/shadow-not-elephant?
And yes, I am very lucky with the impressionism around here - although equally lucky in having a Dad who encouraged/s me to go see stuff with him!
Posted by: ES | 2006.12.08 at 17:48
Before you give up on Picasso, have you been to the Musée Picasso in Paris? If not, I definitely recommend giving it a go because it's such an interesting and deep look into his career--not just the works we all know, but doodles and ceramics and sculpture. I found it to be very different from most artist's museums in that it didn't/couldn't gather all his masterpieces and instead told a story about a man very passionate about art. I enjoyed it much more than I expected.
Posted by: artgeek | 2006.12.09 at 14:33