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Léon Bonvin (French, 1834-1866), Vase with Wild Flowers, 1863, watercolor with gouache details, iron gall ink and pen on slightly textured, moderately thick, cream laid paper, 9 5/8 x 7 3/8 in. (24.5 x 18.7 cm).
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Mao Yan（毛焰 Chinese, b.1968）
The Thomas portrait - Memorial II 托马斯肖像—纪念II 2008
The Thomas portrait-Memorial III 托马斯肖像-纪念 III 2008
The Thomas portrait V 托马斯肖像 V 2004
Oil on canvas 布面油画
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Mark Rothko speaks
…But I do know
that many of those who are driven to this life
are desperately searching for those pockets of silence
where we can root
and grow
We must all hope we find them
Rothko was a deep and philosophical person, sensitive to all that occurred around him. This short film is testimony to this. He was a painter who believed in himself and in the spiritual in art.
A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer. It dies by the same token. It is therefore a risky and unfeeling act to send it out into the world. How often it must be permanently impaired by the eyes of the vulgar and the cruelty of the impotent who would extend the affliction universally! - M.R.
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Vlaho Bukovac (Italian - Biagio Faggioni) (1855-1922). Portrait of Katarina Bibica, 1891.
48 x 60 cm. (18.9” x 23.62”). Croatian. Italian mother
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Turner, Sun setting over a Lake, c.1840 / Norham Castle, Sunrise, c.1845
Turner and Impressionism
By the 1870’s the French Impressionist painters such as Monet and Pissarro had been to London. Here they saw works by Turner and Constable on public display at the National Gallery. Renoir is known to have said ‘… it was the Turners that first attracted me to London.’ Pissarro recommended to his son Lucien to see the Turners and later to Matisse who sought out Turners on his honeymoon in 1898. In turn Matisse encouraged Derain to study Turner while in London in 1906.
Turner, it seems, was a huge influence on the French painters that came after him. Was he the precursor to Impressionism? Not a new question. But a valid one and one that generates thought and contemplation.
An English Journal ‘The Artist’ on Pissarro’s thoughts:
It seems to me that we are descended from the English Turner. He was perhaps the first to make his colours shine with natural brilliancy. There is much for us to learn in the English School.
Turner, it appears we have much to thank you for. So… with grateful thanks, you are quite marvellous.
