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Daily Archives: June 26, 2012

A. J. Casson & Timeless Memories

26 Tuesday Jun 2012

Posted by michelinewalker in Art, Canada

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A.J. Casson, LL.D, R.C.A. (1898-1992)
Still Life, 1937
 
I had never seen this particular Casson: an indoors Casson resembling an indoors Micheline.  I enjoy life indoors, but would love to have conservatory: a green house.
 
Occasionally, I do go out carrying my camera in the hope of finding beautiful landscapes.  I then return home and paint.  There is a degree of resemblance between what I am painting and what is on the photograph, but my eyes seem to process and recreate what I am seeing.   
 
When I lived in Nova Scotia, once a week, I would join a group of artists, my friends.  First, we shared a glass of wine and then we started to draw the model we had hired for the evening.  To begin with, we drew very quickly: no more than a few minutes, but we graduated to longer sessions.  We were of course drawing the model from different angles, but we would compare our drawings and each artist had his or her style, whatever the angle.   
 
These artists were kind to me.  I was a self-taught artist except for a few lessons on how to do watercolours and etchings.  My preparation was otherwise academic.  What I knew was the history of art.  However, my artist friends, some of whom were professional artists, provided little suggestions that went a long way.  It was a form of apprenticeship.
 
The little tips helped, but in the end artists show their vision of the world and of the multitude of little objects that surround them and may have surrounded them a life time.
 
By the way, have you read Colltales on Elvis Presley:  http://colltales.com/?  What an article.
 
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Tuesday’s News: June 26, 2012

26 Tuesday Jun 2012

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CBC News, Gazette, Globe & Mail, La Presse (Canadian newspaper), Le Devoir, National Post, New York Times, WordPress

Summer Bouquet,  Molly Lamb Bobak, OC R.C.A., 1997

Molly Lamb Bobak‘s painting is featured with permission from La Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, Montreal

Sorry, I did not deliver yesterday’s paper.

I was busy writing on Germaine Guèvremont.  I liked Guèvremont’s Survenant more reading it this time than I did when I taught it.  I now see new dimensions: bucolic.  No telephone posts.  No wires.  It was another world.

After the great ice storm, the 1990s, the worst in recorded history, Hydro-Québec chose the expensive option.  Given climatic changes, they prepared for the worst.  However, we now have a lot of very thick wires.

The News

English
The Montreal Gazette: http://www.montrealgazette.com/index.html
The National Post: http://www.nationalpost.com/index.html
The Globe and Mail: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/
The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/
 
CBC News: http://www.cbc.ca/tvnewsmontreal/ QC
CBC News: http://www.cbc.ca/news/ (national)
CTV News: http://www.ctvnews.ca/
 
French
Le Monde: http://www.lemonde.fr/
Le Devoir: http://www.ledevoir.com/
La Presse: http://www.lapresse.ca/(national)
La Presse: http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/regional/montreal/
 
German
Die Welt: http://www.welt.de/
 
 
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Peter Paul Rubens (28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640)

26 Tuesday Jun 2012

Posted by michelinewalker in Art, Music

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Flemish Baroque painting, Peter Paul Rubens, Publishers, Rembrandt, Templates, Tools, WordPress, YouTube

Peter Paul Rubens, Portrait of a Young Girl, 1615-16
 

One can no longer embed the video featuring Rubens pictures. However, one can click on the link I have put at the bottom of this page. Just click on Peter Paul Rubens.

It is such a beautiful presentation. A gift from God to us mortals.

The music is Vivaldi’s music, his Concerto for Two Flutes, Op. 47, No. 2, Largo. Vivaldi was a priest who had red hair: he was the Red Priest. The largo. Usually the second movement of a concerto is a slow tempo. Here we have a largo, which is a slow tempo.  The third or last movement has a faster tempo. The musicians who are performing Vivaldi’s music are the Arcangelos Chamber Ensemble and the video was assembled to help people concentrate.

Concentrate.  For some, maybe.  But not quite if you go into a spell of ecstasy because the music is heavenly.  Music is very powerful and can therefore be therapeutic, etc. I concentrate, but on the music and the pictures.

The fusion of art and music in the privacy of one’s home is one of the internet’s finest features.

As a former university teacher, I enjoy preparing informative blogs. It takes time and effort, especially when you have problems operating machines. I used to leave the doors to my house unlocked for fear I would not be able to get back in. Keys do not always work very well. So think of me using a computer.

The effort. Do not worry. What about those persons who cannot afford to attend a university or those persons, sometimes older persons, who want to remember.

Enjoy.


The Straw Hat, 1625

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Peter Paul Rubens
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