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Yes, this is a real photograph and not photo-manipulation. My artistic rendition of the Needle in Étretat ---- Join my in Étretat on my Normandy Loire Valley Workshop over Easter. Details at aperturetours.com
Clse up on the americans.
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Another year and another Lugpol battle. This time Normandy 1944.
Size of this diorama: 56 baseplates - 7x8 baseplates 32x32
Builders: Pit, Mrutek, Rasch, Glaz-Pimpur, dmac, dmac`s son Borys, Misiek, Axel, Nexus 7, Matix, Szarik, Kris Kelvin and many other “water helpers”.
Full Gallery will be here:
www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=507441
Special thanks for Darek Mróz for photos
Standing tall and proud, the majestic fountain that Henri Levy planned and built in 1925 is still as it was, splashing gently on the plaza at Rue Vendome. The fountain and four apartment houses were the first structures built on Normandy Isle, the creation of which in and of itself required a great deal of patience.
After South Florida experienced the devastating hurricane of 1926, Henri Levy re-grouped and repaired damage to the community he had founded. And not satisfied to have accomplished so much, he then set about connecting it all to the mainland. The intrepid entrepreneur joined with governmental agencies and had the 79th Street Causeway built by 1929. Named for the street to which it connects on the mainland, the causeway leads to 71st Street on Normandy Isle, which in June 2009 was appropriately renamed Henri Levy Boulevard.
Levy, a French-born Jew, moved to Florida in 1922 from Cincinnati, Ohio, where he owned a successful chain of silent film theaters. Levy's religion made City of Miami Beach co-founder Carl Fisher reluctant to join with him in a real estate venture, but it didn't stop Fisher from selling Levy land on the north end of Miami Beach. Those plots became known as Normandy Beach (now 87th Terrace to 90th Street in Surfside) and Normandy Beach South (69th to 72nd Streets in the heart of North Beach Resort Historic District and Town Center).
Eventually, Levy and some partners collaborated on his third project, situated in the bay just west of 71st Street and Normandy Beach South. According to author Howard Kleinberg's book Miami Beach: A History, the team pooled $250,000 and purchased a mangrovey patch that wasn't just in the water. It was under water. After two years of 24-hour-a-day dredging, South Island, as it had been dubbed, was renamed Normandy Isle. And in honor of Levy's heritage, streets got a dash of savoir faire, with names such as Marseille and Calais Drive.
At one time, a grand archway announced the eastern entry to Normandy Isle. These days it seems fitting that the aptly named and dazzling MiMo-style International Inn (designed by architect Melvin Grossman) marks the western entrance to the neighborhood while that aforementioned fountain remains stalwart on the eastern end, a symbolic uniting of old and new.
Other original elements remaining in Normandy Isle are the City Beautiful-inspired street configuration, lighting plan, and sidewalks, all which add to the hospitable feel, as does the architectural mix. Those varied buildings are apparent in the business and residential areas. Bisecting the neighborhood are two main streets, Normandy Drive and 71st Street. There, mostly mid-century structures encompass a thriving commercial area with popular ethnic restaurants, shopping, banks, offices, gas stations, and a longtime weekend farmer's market that gathers around the plaza.
I always wanted to see this place. It was pretty incredible...
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A modified version of an earlier image of the same composition of this wonderful example of the architecture in Cabourg (apologies to Dron for the repost!).
Claude Monet (Paris, 14 November 1840 - Giverny, 5 December 1926) - Boats on the beach at Étretat (1883) - exhibition "Monet and the Impressionists in Normandy. Masterpieces from the Peindre en Normandie Collection "- Palazzo Mazzetti (Asti)
“Monet e gli impressionisti in Normandia" La mostra ripercorre, a partire dai primi decenni dell’Ottocento, i momenti più importanti di questa corrente artistica.
L’impressionismo è un movimento pittorico nato a Parigi nella seconda metà dell’800. Nasce ufficialmente il 15 aprile 1874 in occasione della mostra tenuta nello studio del fotografo Nadar da un gruppo di artisti respinti dal Salon di Parigi, il tempio della pittura ufficiale. La mostra ha un esito disastroso e provoca feroci polemiche. Ispirandosi al titolo del dipinto Impression, soleil levant di Claude Monet, il critico d’arte Louis Leroy defisce ironicamente questi pittori impressionisti. Gli impressionisti lasciano gli atelier per lavorare all’aperto nelle campagne, nelle periferie, nelle piazze. Utilizzano cavalletti portatili e colori a olio in tubetti, fabbricati per la prima volta in questi anni. Lo scopo è cogliere l’impressione visiva della realtà; da qui la necessità di un’esecuzione rapida, senza disegno preliminare, senza ritocchi e sfumature. Il fondamento della tecnica impressionista è lo studio della luce e del colore; per conferire la massima luminosità ai dipinti gli impressionisti accostano direttamente sulla tela i colori puri; aboliscono l’uso del nero per realizzare le ombre, che vengono rese combinando diversi colori. Spesso gli impressionisti rappresentano il medesimo soggetto in diversi momenti del giorno per mostrare come la luce, nel suo continuo divenire, trasformi cose e colori.
"Monet and the Impressionists in Normandy" The exhibition traces the most important moments of this artistic movement starting from the first decades of the nineteenth century.
Impressionism is a pictorial movement born in Paris in the second half of the 19th century. It was officially born on April 15, 1874 on the occasion of the exhibition held in the studio of the photographer Nadar by a group of artists rejected by the Paris Salon, the temple of official painting. The exhibition has a disastrous outcome and causes fierce controversy. Inspired by the title of the painting Impression, soleil levant by Claude Monet, the art critic Louis Leroy ironically defines these impressionist painters. The Impressionists leave the ateliers to work outdoors in the countryside, in the suburbs, in the squares. They use portable easels and oil paints in tubes, manufactured for the first time in these years. The aim is to capture the visual impression of reality; hence the need for rapid execution, without preliminary drawing, without retouching and nuances. The foundation of the Impressionist technique is the study of light and color; to give maximum brightness to the paintings, the Impressionists put pure colors directly on the canvas; they abolish the use of black to create shadows, which are made by combining different colors. Often the Impressionists represent the same subject at different times of the day to show how light, in its continuous evolution, transforms things and colors.
Well, here it is. The product of, shockingly, seven months of work. Still, you can't blame me. I've had a busy year, full of college stuff like SATs and other goodies that I won't miss. But finally this beaut' is done. I didn't edit all of the photos because I got too lazy, so I hope you appreciate some nice pictures of the Normandy in my kitchen. And if you happen to be going to BW on Sat., don't forget to check out the video game display booth! Because you will definitely regret it. I promise you, you don't want to pass it up. Seriously, bad things will happen to you...
Also this.
The stone beach by the Falaises d'Etretat, in Normandy in the north of France, just as clouds bringing rain were about to roll in from the sea.
Another year and another Lugpol battle. This time Normandy 1944.
Size of this diorama: 56 baseplates - 7x8 baseplates 32x32
Builders: Pit, Mrutek, Rasch, Glaz-Pimpur, dmac, dmac`s son Borys, Misiek, Axel, Nexus 7, Matix, Szarik, Kris Kelvin and many other “water helpers”.
Full Gallery will be here:
www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=507441
Special thanks for Darek Mróz for photos