The joys of riding cedar strip canoes simply cannot be compared to any other kind of pastime. The feelings evoked by the sturdy, classic boat floating serenely on a body of water. One can’t help but feel nostalgic and cozy with such an old world feeling. However since they are […]
Year: 2023
French ‘Neo-Impressionist’ painter Paul Signac or Paul Victor Jules Signac (11 November 1863 – 15 August 1935) was born into a bourgeois family in Paris. Paul aimed architecture as his career, until he dropped the idea at the age of eighteen to start a career in painting. He voyaged near […]
Western Art Vanishes Together with Mary Magdalene A remarkable discovery leads to a trail of unusual historical and cultural revelations My discovery of the virtually hidden medieval sculpture of “Eve in the Garden of Eden” on a church capital in the Basilica of Mary Magdalene at Vézelay, Burgundy, eastern France […]
At the dawn of the 20th century, painters in Paris began experimenting with new ideas. Among others, Cezanne was breaking away from the idea of ‘reporting’ the world of nature in paint. He was cutting natural forms into geometrical ‘bits.’ Sisley was taking a scientific approach to colour, devising ‘programs’ […]