Boston Vanquishes Vancouver And Skates With Stanley!

Boston Bruins win!
Silver Stanley Cup at home
With Black, Gold and White.

- Adrean Darce Brent
Wednesday 15 June 2011

Images:
Left: Boston Bruins Stanley Cup from the website facebook.com
Center: Boston Bruins team from the website bruins.nhl.com
Right: Boston Bruins logo from the website upload.wikimedia.org

Monday Morning Museum: John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent – Saturday 12 January 1856 Florence, Italy to Tuesday 14 April 1925 London, England

American Portrait Painter


I have always admired this painting – Portrait of Isabella Stewart Gardner, 1888 – ever since the first time I saw it at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum during my freshman year of college. I like its simplicity and the recurring motif of the neckline’s shape in the pearls around Isabella’s waist and the clasping of her hands. The Italian-inspired museum is absolutely wonderful and visually stunning from the central courtyard to the variety of artwork on all three floors.




Last Monday’s Artist – Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky
Next Monday’s Artist – Jacob van Strij

Images:
Left: The Chess Game, circa 1907 from the website artrenewal.org
Center: Thistle, circa 1870-1872 from the website metmuseum.org
Right: A Study of Architecture, Florence, circa 1910 from the website artrenewal.org
Below: “Monday Morning Museum” logo created by Adrean Darce Brent

Monday Morning Museum: Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky – 16 December 1866 Moscow, Russia to 13 December 1944 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France

Russian-born French Expressionist Painter


Kandinsky presents in this piece – Yellow-Red-Blue, 1925 – a work whose theme is the display of the primary pigment colors utilized in painting. I have used these same colors in the "Monday Morning Museum" logo.



Last Monday’s Artist - André Kertész
Next Monday’s Artist – John Singer Sargent

Images:
Left: Interior (My Dining Room), 1909 from the website cgfa.acropolisinc.com
Center: The Garden of Love (Improvisation Number 27), 1912 from the website metmuseum.org
Right: In the Blue, 1925 from the website pintura.aut.org
Below: “Monday Morning Museum” logo created by Adrean Darce Brent

Monday Morning Museum: André Kertész

André Kertész – Monday 2 July 1894 Budapest, Hungary to Saturday 28 September 1985 New York, New York

Hungarian-born American Photographer

It was in the midst of his French period (circa 1925 to 1936), that Kertész shot this photograph - Clock of the Académie Française, Paris, 1932 – looking towards the Pont des Arts and the Palais du Louvre, places I’ve been often and enjoyed.



Last Monday’s Artist - Paul Cézanne
Next Monday’s Artist – Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky

Images:
Left: Displaced People, Budapest, 1916 from the website masters-of-photography.com
Center: Poughkeepsie, New York, 1937 from the website masters-of-photography.com
Right: Kyoto, Japan (man seated reading by circular window), 1968 from the website collections.mocp.org
Below: “Monday Morning Museum” logo created by Adrean Darce Brent

Monday Morning Museum: Paul Cézanne

Paul Cézanne – Saturday 19 January 1839 Aix-en-Provence, France to Monday 22 October 1906 Aix-en-Provence, France

French Post-Impressionist Painter


In keeping with presenting landscape works by Paul Cézanne, this piece – In The Woods, 1897-1898 – appeals to me because of the cool colors used, giving a refresh sense to the subject matter.



Last Monday’s Artist – Andreas Achenbach
Next Monday’s Artist – André Kertész


Images:
Left: Jas de Bouffan, the Pool, circa 1876 from the website the-athenaeum.org
Center: The House With the Cracked Walls, circa 1892-1894 from the website metmuseum.org
Right: Mont Sainte-Victoire, circa 1902-1904 from the website the-athenaeum.org
Below: “Monday Morning Museum” logo created by Adrean Darce Brent