No.1

Welcome to my new blog. This week the subject is art.


What makes a good picture?  Not an easy question to answer.              
                                                   
Is it the subject matter? Or the colours? The light and shade?
        
I read an article lately in which someone said that a good picture is one that you just can’t take your eyes off. Something you see that strikes your soul to the very depths, that opens your eyes and your mind to the beauty of it.                                              

Well, that might be a bit over the top for many folk.

Here are five paintings by the American artist William Merritt Chase 1849-1916.

Chase studied for five years in Munich and returned to teach art in New York. In 1896 he founded his own school of art and is said to have been the finest art teacher in America of that period.

Have a look at his pictures, using full screen. Do any of them have the “wow” factor?

Still Life with Fruit

                                                               

A Long Island Lake

                              

Going to see Grandma

Modern Magdalen

Peonies

So what makes a good picture?

I can’t tell you - but I would suggest that if YOU like it, it’s good! And don’t let anyone tell you different.

This website is worth visiting -
Olga’s Gallery, an online art museum at www.abcgallery.com

Next Friday - We go to the theatre.


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