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Why this little book.

Why

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These notes are a collection of paintings that I especially like. I enjoy looking at them, and I hope you will too. Sometimes I just open this notebook to a painting I really like, and leave it up on the screen of my iPad as I work on other things.

Consider making your own art collection on VS. Just sign up and go for it!

As I write this, there is just one image in my "notebook." By the time you see these lines, I hope that there will be many more.

PS. We have to be respectful of image rights. I have taken most of these images from WikiPaintings. Take a look at this site — there is a lot there. Below is one of my favorites. For me, looking at works like this is a silent meditation. No need for more.

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Monet

Impressionism

misty morning on the seine

1. Claude Monet, Misty Morning on the Seine (1897)

Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct.  — Claude Monet

I am trying to figure out how much I like this painting of Monet. I hadn’t seen it before today. It is certainly "impressionistic:-)"

Sources
Seurat, Gauguin, van Gogh …​

Post-Impressonism

two women working in wheat field 1890
Figure 1. Vincent Van Gogh (1890)

I always think of color when I think of Vincent Van Gogh with color. But he was also a master of drawing, as this chalk sketch shows. Just a small number of bold, almost vertical lines builds up a rhythmically compelling picture.

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Figure 2. Vincent Van Gogh (1888)
the little valley
Figure 3. Paul Gauguin (1891)
harbor in honfleur 1886
Figure 4. Georges Seurat (1886)
Sources
  1. Two Women Working in a Wheat Field WikiPaintings.org

  2. Sower with Setting Sun WikiPaintings.org

  3. The Little Valley WikiPaintings.org

  4. Harbor in Honfleur WikiPaintings.org

Klee, Muench, Macke

Expressionism

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2. Paul Klee, Ad Parnassum (1932)

melancholy

3. Edvard Munch, Melancholy 

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4. August Macke, Lady in a Green Jacket 

Magritte

Surrealism

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Figure 5. Magritte (1948)
Sources
  1. The Lost Jockey WikiPaintings.org

Drawings and paintings that I’ve discovered recently.

Field collection

This chapter has work by paintings that are by artists completely new to me. I credit wikipaintings.org for the pleasure of discovering most of these. They have provided a great resource and a great tool to all those who love art. Bravo to them!

vasya 1922
Figure 6. Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (1922)
Sources
Matisse

Fauvism

notre dame sunrise 1902
Figure 7. Matisse (1948)
Sources
  1. A Glimpse of Notre-Dame in the Late Afternoon WikiPaintings.org

Japanese Art

ocean waves

Artist: Katsushika Hokusai

Rust

rust