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Post by Mariana on Jan 24, 2006 18:53:40 GMT 3
Really beatiful pictures everyone  |
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Post by ruth on Jan 24, 2006 20:41:11 GMT 3
Emma wrote:
Me again, these are pictures of Giverny (in Normandy, 45 minutes drive from home) where Claude Monet used to live
& Annie wrote: Oh this is my dream to go there, Monet is one of my favourites
Isn't it strange to think that Monet was one considered an off-the-wall radical painter?
Now he seems so comforting.
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Post by emma on Jan 24, 2006 22:03:17 GMT 3
 When I was a teenager, I spent 2 years in the USA. This is a beach in North Carolina on the eastern coast. ;D ;D |
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Post by mari on Jan 24, 2006 22:15:19 GMT 3
Nice picture emma!! I'm triying to post a picture but I can't. Wich photo hosting do you use??? I have a photo album at yahoo but it doesn't work
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Post by emma on Jan 24, 2006 22:26:11 GMT 3
I use Photobucket.com
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Post by mari on Jan 24, 2006 22:30:00 GMT 3
Thanks ! I will try with that one
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Post by ruth on Jan 24, 2006 22:36:11 GMT 3
Back to Monet - in the National gallery london there is a room devoted to irises painted by him.
You can sit there and be surrounded on 3 sides by varying shades of purple and green and almost feel
that you are being submerged in the colours.
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Post by yse on Jan 24, 2006 22:42:07 GMT 3
Yes, I knonw. When you came in Giverny, you're in a painting of Claude Monet. it's really pleasant.  The house is incredible. one piece is yellow and the kitchen blue... |
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Post by emma on Jan 24, 2006 22:42:16 GMT 3
Must be something, being surrounded by his paintings
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Post by ruth on Jan 24, 2006 22:42:51 GMT 3
Your photo of the beach in north carolina has a lovely watery looking sky in it, emma
and a reflection on the beach as the tide goes out. I like the misty purple-grey-blue of the clouds.
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Post by emma on Jan 24, 2006 22:52:19 GMT 3
Thanks ruth!!!
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Post by ruth on Jan 24, 2006 22:59:30 GMT 3
I think that looking at his paintings can make you look at the colours around you in a new way.
When he was painting an idea called colour theory had recently been published. It tried
to explain the way that different colours looked when put next to each other. I think he used some of these ideas in his work. The technique of the colour wheel came from this theory , you often find it in leaflets about paint colours when you're thinking about redecorating. (sigh)
Now, we've got feng-shui where colours represent feelings and hopes and dreams. That's a lot to ask of a few chemicals or ground up pigments!! Especially as everything we see has to be processed by our brain and we might be colour blind. i think it's impossible to know if anyone else sees the same colours you do.
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Post by mari on Jan 24, 2006 23:00:07 GMT 3
This is Petrohue falls at the south of chile  |
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Post by yse on Jan 24, 2006 23:04:21 GMT 3
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Post by emma on Jan 24, 2006 23:04:50 GMT 3
I'm a little colorblind, so I don't see everything. I envy people that can see every color.
great picture mari!!!
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