Brancusi~Homer~Renoir

Sleeping Muse

 Constantin Brancusi (February 19, 1876)

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/brancusi/

 

The Fox Hunt

Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836)

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fox_Hunt_1893_Winslow_Homer.jpg

Moulin de la Galette

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (February 25, 1841)

http://www.uic.edu/depts/ahaa/classes/ah111/imagebank.html

Edward Ardizzone

Illustration by Edward Ardizzone from the Tim books...

The images and associated feelings from the Tim books stayed with me from very early childhood in a  pronounced and mystical way.  I had no idea from what books these illustrations came from as I had been very young when we borrowed them from the  library.  Many, many years later, with children of my own, an illustration from a bookshelf at the public library jumped out at me and I knew immediately that this was a magical moment!

More Ardizzone images here: http://childillustration.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html

and here:  http://www.bookroomartpress.co.uk/prints/edward-ardizzone-14.html

Auguste Rodin

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

~Auguste Rodin

photo from here: http://illustrationart.blogspot.com/2008/09/artists-in-love-part-15.html

Spirited Away

From Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki

***

lightning

a heron's cry stabs

the darkness

***

old pond

a frog jumps into

the sound of water

***

on a bare branch

a crow lands

autumn dusk

~ Basho

Viewing Japanese Prints

from a great site of illustrated essays on Japanese prints, old and new:

http://www.viewingjapaneseprints.net/index.html

via: http://www.mellowmonk.com/blog.htm

Exhausted I sought

a country inn,

but found wisteria in bloom

~ Basho

 

Franklin Carmichael

Scrub Oaks and Maples

Franklin Carmichael - 1935

Bay of Islands

Franklin Carmichael 1931

"It is imperative that the artist reveal through the medium in which he is happiest, what he sees, thinks and feels about his surroundings."

- Franklin Carmichael.

Dürer's Rhinoceros

Rhinocerous

woodcut by Albrecht Dürer
(he used only a knife to carve the block!)