Friday, February 27, 2015

Edgar Degas, Au café

Edgar Degas (1834-1917)


At the Café (Au café) (c.1875–1877)

"There is a little painting by Edgar Degas at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge which, from time to time, I like to look at. It is an oil of two young women sitting at a café table. While the woman on the left sits pensively with her head slightly to one side looking down at the table, the woman on the right, and half out of frame, is leaning over as though about to say something. What is most powerful to me about the painting (…), is what might be described as its aural dimension. Once you have seen it and studied it, surrounded in this room by the pastoral and bucolic relics of Impressionism, Degas’s canvas, modestly situated in a far corner, could almost be about to speak. It is as though there is a présence in the room…the lost communicant of some forgotten séance conducted long ago, a girl whose voice you cannot yet hear, whilst knowing that she is longing to be heard, like a desire which rejoices in its imminent satisfaction."

Richard Armstrong

Sue Bryan


Edgeland, charcoal & carbon on arches, 4 x 4 in’, 2015

Liu Ye

Liu Ye (Chinese, b. 1964)

Angel, 1991. Oil on canvas, 55 x 55 cm.


Leon De Smet

Leon De Smet (Belgium1881-1966)

 The Russian Dancer Vera Nemchinova Performing Les Biches (c.1925)
oil on canvas 105.5 x 83 cm

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Emmanuel Viérin (Belgian, 1869 - 1954)

Canal in Dordrecht, 1914

Emmanuel Viérin was a Belgian painter known for his landscape and still life paintings. He was born in 1869 in Brussels and studied art at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels and the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Viérin was a member of the Société Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels and exhibited his work widely in Belgium and France. His work is held in numerous public and private collections, including the Musée d'Ixelles in Brussels and the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Tournai. Viérin's paintings are known for their meticulous attention to detail and their subtle, delicate colors, and he often depicted scenes from the countryside and everyday life. He died in 1954 at the age of 85.

a British artist: Kyffin Williams

Sir Kyffin Williams (UK, Wales 1918-2006) 

Deiniolen
oil on canvas 50.8 x 69.2 cm


Morfa Conwy
oil on canvas 30 x 30 in.


Rhoscryman


Snowdon from Llanllyfni (1975)
oil on canvas 40.7 x 50.8 cm


Sir John Kyffin Williams, OBE, RA (9 May 1918 – 1 September 2006) was a Welsh landscape painter who lived at Pwllfanogl, Llanfairpwll, on the Island of Anglesey. Williams is widely regarded as the defining artist of Wales during the 20th century.

Piroska Szanto


Piroska Szanto - Evening Lights 1959