RAINBOWS OF INSPIRATION

         "Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet."  ~Paul Klee  (1879 -1940)

 "Color possesses me.  I don't have to pursue it.  It will possess me always, I know it.  This is the meaning of this happy hour:  Color and I are one.  I am a painter."  ~Paul Klee

 

"One eye sees, the other feels."

"NATURE IS GARRULOUS TO THE POINT OF CONFUSION, LET THE ARTIST BE TRULY TACITURN."

 

"ART DOES NOT REPRODUCE THE VISIBLE; RATHER, IT MAKES VISIBLE."

 

"I AND COLOR ARE ONE."

  

"SWEET RAINBOW DREAMS"

 

 

 

FALL WITH FRIESEKE

Frederick Carl Frieseke ~ (April 7, 1974 - August 24, 1939) was an American impressionist painter who spent most of his life as an expatriate in France.  He was born in Owosso, Michigan and studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Academie Julian in Paris.  Frieseke (pronounced Free-See-Kee) and his family resided for fourteen years in Giverny, home to Monet.  

Self Portrait 1901

"The key to your universe is that you can choose."

 Spring (circa 1913)

"Your range of choices - right now- is limitless."

 

The Judas Tree (1908-1909c)

"Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there."

Afternoon - Yellow Room, 1910

"Take a look at your natural river.  What are you?  Stop playing games with yourself.  Where's your river going?  Are you riding with it?  Or are you rowing against it?  Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?" 

 Late October ca. 1908-09

"The truth simply is - that's all.  It doesn't need reasons:  it doesn't have to be right:  it's just the truth.  Period."

    

 

 

 

LOVING CHILDE

Frederick Childe Hassam aka Childe Hassam (1859 ~ 1935)

Born in family home in Dorchester, Boston, in 1859. Childe, pronounced Child, was named after an uncle.  His father claimed descent from a seventeenth-century English immigrant whose name, Horsham, had been corrupted over time to Hassam.  Died in East Hampton, New York 1935.

 

           THE LIBERTIES OF AMERICA

"The Fourth of July, 1916

  

July Night, 1898

  

The Sonata, 1911

  

The Room of Flowers, 1894

  

Bowl of Goldfish, 1912

 

Listening to the Orchard Oriole, 1902

 

Couch on the Porch, 1914

 

French Tea Garden, 1910

"Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain."   ~ Childe Hassam

Childe Hassam, a pioneer of American Impressionism and perhaps its most devoted, PROLIFIC, and successful practitioner...

~ Essay H. Barbara Weinberg, The American Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

 

HENRI-EMILE BENOIT MATISSE (1869-1954)

  

                "IT TAKES COURAGE TO BE CREATIVE"

GOLDFISH 1912

     

 

 

   

THE OPEN WINDOW, COLLIOURE    1905

    

OPEN WINDOW   2016,  Artist Unknown

     

"THERE ARE ALWAYS FLOWERS FOR THOSE WHO CHOOSE TO SEE THEM."

 

   

 

 

VINCENT VAN GOGH (1853-1890) CHRISTINA ROSETTI (1830-1894) HENRI DE TOULOUSSE-LAUTREC (1864-1901)

CHOOSE LOVE

HENRI DE TOULOUSSE-LAUTREC   -   IN BED:  THE KISS

VINCENT VAN GOGH  ~  LE SOLEIL

VINCENT VAN GOGH - DAUBIGNY'S GARDEN

VIA PEPPAPIG

JOAN MIRO' FERRA (1893 -1983)

COLORS AND DREAMS

"Here is the color of my dreams."     Joan Miro' Ferra (1893-1983)

JOHN RUSKIN

JOHN RUSKIN (1819-1900)

"THE PUREST AND MOST THOUGHTFUL MINDS ARE THOSE WHICH LOVE COLOUR THE MOST."

   

  

 

 

Wishing you a colorful, awesome, and imperfectly perfect New Year!