Tag: Impressionism
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“Look around you and paint what you see. Forget the Beaux-Arts and the models and render the intense life which surrounds you and be assured that the Brooklyn Bridge is worth the Colosseum of Rome and that modern America is as fine as the bric-a-brac of antiquity.”
FREDERICK CHILDE HASSAM American Painter http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/hass/hd_hass.htm http://www.frederickhassam.org/biography.html
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The Woman Responsible for Exposing Impressionism to the American Art World: Lilla Cabot Perry
Coming from the Cabot family of Boston had its perks for young Lilla–how would you like to hang out with Emerson and the Alcotts? But Lilla was pretty perky on her own–and talented. I don’t know how people find the energy to push art movements along, but she did. I’m sure now that I’m sending…
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Utopian Artist Communities
Should art be made in solitude? There is a certain loneliness that artists know. The process and emotions seem alien to others. Artists may tear each other apart but they know, they know the loneliness. The Art Colony At Old Lyme: http://florencegriswoldmuseum.org/exhibitions_AmericanPlace.php Byrdcliffe: http://www.woodstockguild.org/about-byrdcliffe/byrdcliffe-history/ Cos Cob Art Colony: http://www.hstg.org/colony.php Provincetown Fine Arts Workshop: http://web.fawc.org/history The…
Author Adrienne Morris 