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The people of Crete love their bright colours!
Here at the harbour of Ierapetra, a proud fisherman had just finished repainting his boat for the season...
THANX, M, (*_*)
I was driving home last night and clicking photos of anything and everything but my flash kept going off. Finally I took this photo with sort of a half flash and half without. I thought the result was really interesting.
Colourful mountains in Purmamarca in the northern province of Jujuy in Argentina, site of the famous "mountain of the seven colours" (located on the other side of the tallest peak of this picture). The town lies in the Quebrada de Humahuaca which was declared a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO in 2003.
sometimes people say they like to spell words like favorite---favourite and color---colour. sometimes i think its just their way of saying they dont want to conform and they think they are being cool for it. I dont know. not to offend anyone who likes spelling words that old english way, I just dont find it special or creative. I am also in a very bad mood right now due to the fact that I am homesick :'(
dispite the wettest april this year there is no let up for goin outside for me in my wheelchair at the moment i have already a bump on the head which i had to have butterfliy stitches to seal it up but it is so painful , so i am sorry if you have seen these before, my favorite photography in the rain photos but un fortunately i dont have any flowers because i was in hospital for 4 months and these ones had to be left due to having to move homes and having to start planting again . but please enjoy looking at these thankyou for understanding .
I noticed this spectrum of light in my kitchen and traced it to a bottle of (transparent) window cleaner.
Most definitely an autumnal feel when out and about for a good walk ~ the colours are changing!!
Our Daily Challenge ~ Autumn ...
Stay Safe and Healthy Everyone!
Thanks to everyone who views this photo, adds a note, leaves a comment and of course BIG thanks to anyone who chooses to favourite my photo .... Thanks to you all!
Left -traditional Kumkum (koom-koom), or Kungumam as it is called in Tamil Nadu, is made from dried turmeric. The turmeric is dried and powdered with a bit of slaked lime, which turns the rich yellow powder into red color. Right -Turmeric
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Pics snapped during my 2013 vacation. I had visited Delhi, Agra and Jaipur during the rainy months of August.
The Palacio de Generalife was the summer palace and country estate of the Nasrid rulers of the Emirate of Granada in Al-Andalus.
Pics snapped during my 2013 vacation. I had visited Delhi, Agra and Jaipur during the rainy months of August.
Oil paint on canvas
This painting of a young woman - probably a domestic servant - captures an intimate moment as she pauses from dressing. Her blouse is not fully buttoned and her bare foot is exposed. In rendering the subtle effects of morning light filtering through the window, Edvard Munch was inspired by the new French Impressionist style, using loose brushstrokes and shimmering colours.
Painted when Munch was just twenty years old, Morning was one of the first major works he exhibited. It marked him out as a rising star modern painting in Norway but also drew harsh criticism. Whilst some admired the painting's modern sensibility, others found its technique rough and its subject matter distateful.
[Courtauld Gallery]
From the exhibition
Edvard Munch. Masterpieces from Bergen
(May to September 2022)
Seen together for the first time outside of Scandinavia, the collection presents an exceptional overview of Munch’s development as an artist, providing a rich and comprehensive account of his journey from the early breakthrough pictures of the 1880s which launched his career, through to the expressive and psychologically charged works of the 1890s for which he became known.
The remarkable collection was formed at the beginning of the 20th century by Norwegian industrialist and philanthropist Rasmus Meyer (1858-1916). An early champion of Munch’s work, Meyer knew the artist personally. He astutely acquired major canvases that chart the development of the painter’s unique expressive style that marks Munch as one of the most radical painters of the 20th century. At the time of Meyer’s death in 1916, the canvases encompassed what was then the most comprehensive documentation of Norwegian contemporary art in any collection and the largest single group of works by Edvard Munch. The collection was gifted to the city of Bergen in 1916, and housed since 1924 in a purpose-built gallery in the heart of Bergen, part of KODE Art Museums and Composer Homes.
The exhibition at The Courtauld begins with important early paintings from the 1880s, when Munch was drawing on social realism, Naturalist techniques, and the legacy of French Impressionism to create his own style. This is exemplified by the artist’s first major work, Morning (1884), painted when he was just twenty years old. Despite being controversial at the time for its unconventional style and its intimate subject, the picture helped to establish Munch’s critical and public recognition as a modern painter and was exhibited at the Paris World Fair in 1889.
Another early highlight in the exhibition is Munch’s large-scale canvas Summer Night. Inger on the Beach (1889), a powerful and evocative depiction of his sister Inger sitting by the shoreline of a fjord. This pivotal work has long been celebrated as the painting with which Munch found his artistic voice. Summer Night marks his move towards the expressive and psychologically charged output for which he became famous.
These early paintings launched Munch’s career in Norway and internationally and set the stage for his ground-breaking paintings of the 1890s when his compositions became powerful projections of his emotions and psychological state. Major examples of these 1890s works form the larger part of the exhibition. Instantly recognisable by Munch’s highly expressive handling of paint and rich colour, they include remarkable canvases from the artist’s famous ‘Frieze of Life’ series, such as Evening on Karl Johan (1892), Melancholy (1894-96) and By the Death Bed (1895). Munch’s ‘Frieze of Life’ canvases were intended to address profound themes of human existence, from love and desire to anxiety and death. The artist used his own experiences as source material to create visceral depictions of the human psyche, which he hoped would help others understand their own life. Munch’s ambition to create paintings that operated on a deeply emotional and psychological level, marked him out as one of the most distinctive voices of modern art at the turn of the 20th century.
The exhibition also includes Self-Portrait in the Clinic (1909), one of Munch’s most impressive and introspective self-portraits, painted when he was undergoing treatment for emotional stress in Copenhagen. This powerful work marked a significant and lasting shift in Munch’s style, as he adopted a brighter palette and started applying paint with loose, jagged brushstrokes that left parts of the canvas visible. Munch deployed this new approach to remarkable effect in Youth (1908), one of the paintings Meyer acquired directly from the artist. Its near-life sized depiction of a naked young man on the beach is full of a renewed sense of vitality that characterised Munch’s work at this time.
Edvard Munch. Masterpieces from Bergen is presented in The Courtauld’s Denise Coates Exhibition Galleries and is the second in The Morgan Stanley Series of temporary exhibitions at The Courtauld. The Courtauld’s permanent collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces, on display in the adjacent newly refurbished LVMH Great Room, provide rich context for the exhibition, revealing some of the artistic inspirations Munch encountered during his experimental years in Paris from 1889 – 1892, where he discovered the modern styles of Gauguin, Toulouse Lautrec and Van Gogh.
[Courtauld Gallery]