To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice. ~ Andre Malraux ~ Woman Eating by Duane Hanson On this page, I usually feature paintings which I find beautiful and think you will enjoy as well; but this month, I thought I would share...
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice. ~ Andre Malraux ~ A Game of Badminton by Maurice Denis So do you feel perhaps you have been underdressed, for badminton, all of these years? There is such a graceful airiness to this painting,...
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice. ~ Andre Malraux ~ Idle Hours by H. Siddons Mowbray H. Siddons Mowbray is perhaps best known of his murals; but I am drawn to the serenity of Idle Hours, and oil on canvas, which is...
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice. ~ Andre Malraux ~ Interior by George Nicolaj Achen Can you see the glare of the glass, on the framed pictures? How does one capture such a thing with paint? It appears more like a photograph...
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice. ~ Andre Malraux ~ The Letter by Emile Meyer For the first time in six hundred years, the the College of Cardinals gather in Rome, to select the next Pope, without the loss of the previous head,...
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice. ~ Andre Malraux ~ An Interlude by William Sergeant Kendall The artist has painted his wife, Margaret, who looks away from him, along with one of his three daughters. Margaret holds a book, which she is attempting...
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice. ~ Andre Malraux ~ Garden at Vaucresson by Edouard Vuillard It is almost as if the woman, in this painting, were inconsequential, a mere afterthought to the flowers, which dominate the canvas, and draw your...
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice. ~ Andre Malraux ~ Portrait of Dora Wheeler by William Merritt Chase It is the contrast between this bold, golden background and the many shades of blue, which clothe Dora Wheeler, that instantly draw...
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice. ~ Andre Malraux ~ Black Spruce Ledge (Lobstering Off Black Spruce Ledge) by N. C. Wyeth There are times, when words fail to describe the explosion of emotion, which color and brush strokes, from a masters hands,...
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice. ~ Andre Malraux ~ The Lunch by Claude Monet I should like my garden to look like this, as well as my guest who come for tea. Art can never existe without naked beauty displaced....
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