Search results for: “Alfred Sisley”
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Alfred Sisley snow scenes
Even though most people in North America, north of the 37th parallel or so, are pretty tired of seeing show (and wishing they could send it to Sochi, where they are apparently having trouble keeping it from melting during the Winter Olympics), there is one sub-group of people who see snow differently — painters. Some…
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The Floods at Port Marly – Alfred Sisley
Impressionist painter Alfred Sisley (one of my favorites and in my opinion underrated) was more than any of the other French Impressionists devoted to the depiction of water, streams and in particular, the Seine River. Sisley painted several canvasses of the flooding of the Seine at Port Marly in 1872 and 1876. The three paintings…
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Alfred Sisley
Along with Gustav Caillebotte Alfred Sisley is one of my two favorite “ignored” Impressionists. Sisley is usually lost in the glare surrounding Monet, the “star” of Impressionism, particularly since Sisley’s work at its most “Impressionistic” resembles a slightly anemic version of Monet’s prismatic marvels. Often referred to as “the English Impressionist” Sisley was actually born…
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Eye Candy for Today: Sisley’s Rest Along the Stream
Le repos au bord du ruisseau. Lisière de bois (Rest along the Stream. Edge of the Wood) Alfred Sisley Among the original core group of French Impressioinist painters, English born Alfred Sisley has long been a personal favorite of mine. There is something direct and to the point about his work that particularly appeals to…
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A few paintings from 1888
Most of these were sourced from this page on Wikimedia Commons. I think the late 19th and early 20th centuries produced an extraordinary bounty of wonderful paintings. (Images above, links are to my articles: Charles Edward Perugini, Emil Zschimmer, Olga Boznańska, Peder Mørk Mønsted, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, John Singer Sargent, Vincent van…
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Impressionist bridges
No — it’s not the subject of a real-world exhibit somewhere, though that might be nice — just a thought that occurred to me while looking through some images of Impressionist paintings. One of the things that set the Impressionists apart was their insistence, like Courbet, on painting the real world as they saw it,…