I haven't spent any time in a serious art gallery since my student days when we spent a couple of weeks in Paris visiting all the modernist galleries - Pause for jokes about those were they days before Van Gogh cut his ear off.
Anyway while it was exciting to see the Warhol's, Picasso's Cezanne's, Mondrian's, Monet's in real life, the two pictures which really caught my attention were these by George Serurat (at least I'm pretty sure they are but the photo's are such poor quality I can't read the title cards).
Georges-Pierre Seurat was a post impressionist, developing pointillism, most famously in his picture "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."
What I find interesting and exciting about these much more simple views of the channel coast is the way they so exactly capture the atmosphere and the similarity to our own piece of coast line. The top one while undoubtedly of France, could so easily be Hill Head or Lee on Solent near here a hundred years ago.
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Excellent... Emsworth?? :o) ==> http://www.encore-editions.com/georges-seurat-french-master-painting-port-en-bessin-the-outer-harbor-1888
ReplyDeleteI understand completely your sentiments about capturing exactly the atmosphere of a piece of coast - it's thrilling to find it. I can appreciate art from abstract expressionism to super realism but there is nothing quite like something that you can connect with in a personal way - something that expresses something of ones own experience.
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