Norman Rockwell's Birthday Anniversary... (VIDEO)

-Posted by D.C. Worth, for Barbay (France/US)


Rockwell captured wholesomeness of American Progress, on Canvas; depicted as everyday Liberty, moral character, kindness, & strong will... Lasting virtues, practiced every day! [HT: IOTW]

February 3rd, 1894 - November 8th, 1978... #

NORMAN ROCKWELL from Miguel Angel on Vimeo.

-Just returned from 12 hours at the Studio...
Always think good thoughts...

The Art of Gustav Klimt-- (July 14- 1862)

-Posted by D.C. Worth, for Barbay (France/US)


Artists continue to have birthdays.... And the world continues to be rediscovered... We always remember the past of Peace; and think the world is descending into ciaos.... But it is really just the same Mosaic.... Only the perspective has changed.

Adele Bloch-Bauer I (Gustav Klimt)

His Nuda Verita (1899) defined his bid to further shake up the establishment...
The starkly naked red-headed woman holds the mirror of truth, while above it is a quote by Schiller in stylized lettering, "If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad."




-Image Top: Adele Bloch-Bauer I ; Neue Galerie, New York.
(Painting sold for a record $135 million in 2006.)


Away... Returning late tomorrow.

Think Good Thoughts.... :)

Digital Renaissance Art, inspired by Classical Painter, Bouguereau

-Posted by D.C. Worth, for Barbay (France/US)

Raffy Dematawaran's digital time-lapse painting (below) amazingly captures the style & expression... Depicted here, in the classical Renaissance works of traditionalist painter, Bouguereau...

Bouguereau painted 826 paintings, & used his influence to open many French art institutions to women for the first time. (Academie francaise)

Image: Work Interrupted 1891
(William-Adolphe Bouguereau)
-Credit: Bouguereau.org...

-A TOUCH OF IRONY...
-Both in choice of music & circumstance.
BIO: Degas and his associates used the term "Bougeuereaute" in a derogatory manner to describe any artistic style reliant on "slick & artificial surfaces."


-Bouguereau's Fame and Fall...
Even though Bouguereau was highly esteemed by the Belgium, Holland, Spain, & United States elite; commanding high prices for his work...
-He was simultaneously reviled by the avant-garde...
-Symbolically he painted figures appealing to rich art patrons of his time; however, critics preferred Jean-Francois Millet's farmers & laborers.

-The Bio goes on to say....
In 1900, Degas and Monet reportedly named him as most likely to be remembered as the greatest 19th-century French painter by the year 2000; according to Chairman Fred Ross of the Art Renewal Center...

"Although with Degas' famous trenchant wit, and the aesthetic tendencies of the two Impressionists, it is possible the statement was meant as an ironic comment on the taste of the future public." [read]

Ashen Light phenomenon, still a mystery (for some)

-Posted by D.C. Worth, for Barbay (France & US)

wired.com writes of the Venus ashen light, first recorded in 1643 by Italian astronomer Giovanni Riccioli; in what was discovered as a faint glow on the night side of the planet Venus. Read.

Image: NASA (Magellan Craft Data)



NOTE: Other astronomers, over the ensuing centuries, will also observe the Ashen Light; but one of the longest-running mysteries of astronomy still defies conclusive explanation...Read.
Source: Eastbay Astronomical Society

It's simple...
A dance of electric particles animate the dark gray mystery; as flashes of lightning reveal the secret holographic nature of the Universe. :D

VIDEO: ORDINARY VIEW OF VENUS (Yawn) HERE.
Filmed with a JVC handycam, JVC videolens f=2.2 ~5.5 mm F1.8 diameter: 27, 25 x optical zoom, Auto-focus, Mini DV, Backlight=on, Focus=on, Nightvision=off.
VIDEO: ITALIAN VIEW (is much better!) HERE.
The (1643) Venus Ashen light Anniversary: January 9th...
So, don't forget to celebrate... *<[;o)~~

Still painting in studio; wishing you a wonderful day...

Today's Videos...
(Open in new window)

VIDEO: Every perfect world, has its imperfections: VIEW.
Do not believe OTHERWISE... (Lovely extrapolations, though.)

NASA: Earth flight, compilation... VIEW.

VIDEO: Gustav Holst's "The Planets/Venus" VIEW.
Suite for the Helsinki Philharmonics -2009

In the Studio painting (Videos)

-Posted by D.C. Worth, for Barbay (France & US)

Wishing you a lovely day...
The last day of the year!
A few Videos you might enjoy.
(Open in new window)

VIDEO: Hollywood SET!
VIDEO: Electric OOPS!
VIDEO: ID Creative

Image: My Butterscotch






UPDATE: Just found this truly great video!
Here's somebody painting "outside" the Studio...

Zizkov paint from peter bill on Vimeo.

Think good thoughts...

VIDEO: Butterfly VIEW
VIDEO: Nature VIEW.

Work in Progress...

-Posted by D. Worth (US) | for- M. Barbay (France)

Painting on canvas screens in lovely soft shades of pastel, on a cloudy day... Not sure why, but the fragrance of oil paint always reminds me of a beautiful Sunday morning, on a terrace...

Image: France, terrace- 98




The video below is a creative (music only) short-film, showing stills of Rembrandt (and etc. midway through the clip.)

Posted mainly for the unique and interesting music...
*** Note: Video 17th century painting nudity (none in videos below)


Wishing you, a creative day...
(Leaving for Grandmother's house (U.S.) on 18th; for Thanksgiving.)

Today's Links...
VIDEO: Jonas Gerard (Live Painter) VIEW!
(Creative & free-flowing!)

VIDEO: Frank Auerbach To the studio: VIEW.
Unusual that the most successful Artist, is the most introverted...
(prolific, but maybe not the healthiest.)

More Live Painting...
VIDEO: Expressionist Svein Koningen VIEW.
VIDEO: More Jonas Gerard - Asheville: VIEW.

Studio and an orange flower

-Posted by D. Worth (US) | for- M. Barbay (France)



BIG SCREEN Tranquility Videos
(Open in new window)

VIDEO: Very relaxing...
Gentle rain

Video: ZEN GARDEN
Peaceful VIDEO: Images.

River Rain & Thunder
Close your eyes: RELAX

Image: Window of Makkink -07












Finally painting...
Posting these peaceful & relaxing videos, again (at top of post)
Wishing you a creative weekend...

Early morning travel...

-Posted by D. Worth (US) | for- M. Barbay (soon, France)

Leaving on trip (France) in a couple of hours...
It's still dark here, early in the morning... Just found this: VIDEO VIEW (haha)




Lovely little video and music...
As always, think good thoughts...


Blog will auto post, or friend (Worth) will add while I'm away.

Today's Links...
Chinese brush paintings, view: dorothy chan gallery

VIDEO: Tchaikovsky Waltz of the Flowers VIEW.
(Ciajkovskij Piotr Pyotr Petr Ilitch choregraphy)

Story in sand (Ukraine 1941-45)

-Posted by D. Worth (US) | for- M. Barbay (France) and US

A very moving sand story, from winner of: 2009 Ukraine's Got Talent
Ht: aceHQ, and doubleplusundead


The music from Ukraine and artist...
Apocalyptica from the album "Apocalyptica plays Metallica"

Description of story:
The artist's grandparents sit together on benches...
He was taken to war during the invasion of Ukraine.
She had a baby, and received a letter that her husband had died...
Note: Between (1941-1945) 25% of Ukranine's population was killed...
After the war ended, a man came and met the woman...
He helped raise the baby and they soon married...

At end of story, she writes "You are always near"...

In our small world, we're holograms

-Posted by D. Worth (US) | for- M. Barbay (France) and US

Art Glass (and works by Kemper)

-Posted by D. Worth (US) | for- M. Barbay (France) (US trip!)







We are all, a dance of light...

A Few "BIG Screen" VIDEOS: (new window)
Stay Warm (Voyage éternel) VIEW ...And be safe! (Haha)
All Is Interpretation: VIEW: graff vidéo sur vitraux
Come Away with me: Nora Jones VIEW.

Claude Monet: Nov. 14. 1840 - (1926)

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Les Nympheas, Le Grand Reve de Monet
Uploaded by imineo

A (worth the view) Cheery Spectacular Rainbow:
VIDEO of Monet's Work!
(Opens in new window)

Auto-posted: 11/13/08...
Away for another week... Posts will automatically-update.

Eugène Boudin (Deauville-Trouville) 1896

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Eugène Boudin: Musée
July 12, 1824 - May 6, 1898

Rivage de Portrieux, Cotes-du-Nord



Eugène Boudin, a marine painter... And expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and along its shores... He was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors...

Of pastels, summary and economic, he garnered the splendid eulogy of Baudelaire, and Corot who, gazing at his pictures, said to him:
"You are the master of the sky... Remastery... :)

The_voice
Uploaded by danieldp

My Favorite Painting Tip: "Heavenly Clouds in Oil"
1) Paint 3 or 4 shades of cartoon clouds, on Canvas
2) Paint thin white outlines around each cloud
3) After 24 hours, take cloth (spritzed with turpintine)
4) Gently Rub out each cloud... And Viola!

"You've just painted an Eugène Boudin Sky!"