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"The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray." Van Gogh

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March 22, 2012

worldpaintings:

Ludwig Knaus

A detail of Girl in a Field, 1857, oil on canvas, 50 x 61 cm, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.

6:18pm | URL: http://tmblr.co/ZwaWSxIOXHF_

(Notes: 161)

March 22, 2012

worldpaintings:

Claude Monet

Monet’s Garden, the Irises, 1900, oil on canvas, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France.

Claude Monet created his garden like a work of art and painted it, not unlike a painter might create sculpture to feature in his paintings. The artist arranged his garden like a still life painter would compose a bowl of fruit on the table.

“My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece” - Claude Monet.

6:15pm | URL: http://tmblr.co/ZwaWSxIOWtib

(Notes: 18)

March 22, 2012

"What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race."

— Amedeo Modigliani (via worldpaintings)

6:14pm | URL: http://tmblr.co/ZwaWSxIOWoXE

(Notes: 5)

March 22, 2012

worldpaintings:

Vincent Van Gogh

Vase with Daisies and Poppies, oil on canvas.

6:14pm | URL: http://tmblr.co/ZwaWSxIOWjrZ

(Notes: 28)

March 22, 2012

"You can’t be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be colour."

— Vincent Van Gogh (via worldpaintings)

6:13pm | URL: http://tmblr.co/ZwaWSxIOWhOf

March 22, 2012

worldpaintings:

Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida

Children in the Sea, 1909.

6:12pm | URL: http://tmblr.co/ZwaWSxIOWaWF

(Notes: 83)

March 22, 2012

"The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore."

— Vincent Van Gogh (via worldpaintings)

6:12pm | URL: http://tmblr.co/ZwaWSxIOWXrn

(Notes: 13)

March 22, 2012

"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."

— Leonardo da Vinci (via worldpaintings)

6:12pm | URL: http://tmblr.co/ZwaWSxIOWT8I

(Notes: 119)

March 22, 2012

"The simplest subjects are the immortal ones."

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir (via worldpaintings)

6:11pm | URL: http://tmblr.co/ZwaWSxIOWMVz