Magpie in Winter - Monet
More paintings from the Impressionists era (Claude Monet, Manet, Renoir, Sisley and Rembrandt). Above is the Magpie in winter, an oil on canvas which shows the lovely winter's day with the sun shining and the shadows long. In the background, it is anyone's guess whether that is a lake or field. I mistook the frame for part of the painting (on the kleft hand side !)
Banana Trees - Monet
This must be painted in some tropical country but I felt the Magpie painting to be of better quality than the Banana trees. While the colours are vivid,somehow the subject matter of the magpie is in stark contrast to the numerous subjects in this banana plantation.
The Seine river in winter
A beautiful painting capturing the houseboats in the foreground and one of the bridges (Paris has 13 if I recall) in the background. Some boats have chimneys on them as this was the age before electric heating and solar panels.
This is done by Auguste Renoir in the late 1800s. He (as was Claude Monet) was a chain smoker, and a small wiry man who drank coffee while painting. The made several films in black and white of the Impressionist masters and it was fascinating to see that though they were poor by those standards, they did not go hungry and had benefactors supporting them.
Carpe Diem.
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