Blanc

Adriano Cecioni. Interno con figura. Roma, Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna.




Edmund Tarbell. Across the Room.

Adolf von Menzel

Philip Connard. Un matin de mai. Musée d'Orsay.

Harold Gilman. The Kitchen. Wales Museum of Art.

Elisabeth Nourse. Les volets clos. Musée d'Orsay

E. Saglio. La buanderie. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lille.

Edmund Tarbell

Felix Valloton. L'armoire. Coll. privée.

Adolf von Menzel. Neue Pinakothek, Munich

Peter Ilsted.

William Orpen. The Night. National Gallery of Art, Washington.

Comments

[Kirlian]

Il y a une sorte d'unité dans tous ces tableaux, des traces de doux murmures qui s'apprètent en silence à reformuler des gestes familiers.

[Ulla]

Blanc, the title says so much... You have once again shown us how something so simple, can be so complex... Lovely choices, full of sentiment and feeling...

[caroline_8]

Tout me ravit... le blanc du linge, la chambre à coucher, les femmes dans leur intimité... j'aurais aimé écrire ce post... merci Florizelle pour ce moment de communion.

[Holly G.]

Je tombe sous le charme de ce boudoir, grâce à Lamousmé.

[Debbie Schramer]

Florizelle,

I appreciate so much your love of beauty and especially the lives of women who are depicted surrounded by beauty and serenity and loveliness. I think women today long for such things in this world that has become filled with such angular and modern things that have little beauty in them. Thank you for sharing these beautiful paintings, some of which I was not aware.

My husband and I just went to the Hammer Museum in L.A. last night, a spur of the moment excursion. We had no idea we would walk into the new opening of an exhibit and there was music playing, tons of excited and interesting people and wonderful art. Our favorites were the impressionists.....there we both were, standing a foot away from original works by Van Gogh, Pousin, Gaugin, Pissaro and others. How utterly wonderful that was. I could have stayed there for hours. We will go back. There is something of their very lives and spirits in those original paintings; almost like a conversation from their souls speaking out to the viewer, in thanks.
Beautiful art; we cannot survive without it.