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Reflections · Reflection
“Who speaks of art speaks of poetry. There is not art without a poetic aim. There is a species of emotion particular to painting. There is an effect that results from a certain arrangement of colors, of lights, of shadows. It is this that one calls the music of painting” Edouard
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” My work is purely autobiographical.. It is about myself and my surroundings. I work from people that interest me and that I care about, in rooms that I know.” Lucian Freud
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“My maturity has not fulfilled the hopes and ambitions of my youth” John Everett Millais
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“How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?” ~Anais Nin. When I was asked to write a column for an American cultural magazine, my first thought was if I would be able to do this, first of all being European
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“How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?” ~Anais Nin. When I was asked to write a column for an American cultural magazine, my first thought was if I would be able to do this, first of all being European
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Symphony in White (1865) by James Whistler Whistler painted his lover Joanna Hiffernan. This painting shows her beautiful profile while reflected in the mirror. The white of the dress is the dominant color in this painting. Joanna has been Whistler’s lover for seven years, then s
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Being deserted, feeling all alone There is just this huge emptiness Looking for some kind of escape When I let myself go I feel heavy Deceiving myself in this way Nothing really matters anymore Feeling just a sense of lost Despair has passed and there is a way out Do not want to
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“The Blue Mandarin Coat” 1922 Joseph Rodefer DeCamp (1858 -1923)
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“Cashmere Shawl” 1910 by John Singer Sargent American 1856 – 1925
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Alfred George Stevens, a native of Brussels, spent much of his career in Paris where he was regarded as one of the most important recorders of the bourgeois and aristocratic levels of la vie moderne. 1823-1906
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The Japanese mask 1877 by Alfred Stevens
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