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 ~ 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 ~ 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 ~ 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 ~ Miners in the Sierras 1851-1852 by Charles Christian Nahl and August Wenderoth I love color! When looking at art, I am often drawn to the color on the canvas before the subject of...
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice. ~ Andre Malraux ~ The Large Tree by Paul Gauguin Painted in 1891, this idyllic and exotic oil was one of the first paintings created by Gauguin, upon arriving in Tahiti, where he had gone seeking the...
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice. ~ Andre Malraux ~ Evening Tones by Oscar Bluemner Strolling through a museum, I often feel that I am at a reunion of sorts, looking for familiar friends, which I long to reconnect with, and hoping perhaps...
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice. ~ Andre Malraux ~ The South Ledges, Appledore (1913) by Childe Hassam Have you ever wished you could be dropped into a painting? At the moment, I wish I were the woman in this painting, sitting on...
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