I think what I like most about these paintings is the presence of so much light. Now don't get me wrong, I am a huge fan of mediaeval (I like to spell this with as many vowels as possible) painting with its dark backgrounds and richly coloured subjects, but I was quite taken yesterday with the daylight and natural colours of these Impressionist works. These chaps refused to do preliminary drawings, and painted their pictures looking at the scene they were creating on the canvas. You feel as if you are standing on a French hillside, surveying the villages these two loved to paint and watching the comings and goings of the villagers.
This was my favourite picture: Small Bridge, Pointoise by Camille Pisarro
These exhibitions often appear at both the MoMA and the Tate Modern in London, so keep your eye out for a switch to London sometime after it finishes here on September 12. In the meantime, you can enjoy all the paintings at the exhibition website.
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Don't forget that Pisarro's most famous work, Dimanche sur la Grande Jatte is in the Met at 86th St. unless MoMa's got it for their exhibition.
My favorite artist remains El Greco and Warhol. They are completely different but that seem to sum me up perfectly, a bit all over the place. Though being quite different they seem the same in that they both have fun with their creations. Jonathan and I have been very lucky to see amazing exhibitions on both artists. The El Greco one imparticular as several of the paintings belonged to small churches in the countrysides of Spain and had never been on loan before. I am not an enthusiastic art lover, but every so often something really catches my eye.
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