Delacroix's Women of Algier

"The Women of Algiers in their apartment", done in 1834, is another of the most 
famous of Delacroix's painting.
The right photography (Reuters) depicts the painting in an exhibition and a woman looking 
at the version Picasso did.
Picasso did versions, reinterpretations of 
other artists like Velazquez's Las Meninas, and works of Monet and El Greco. I will publish them.

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Erin McGuire's adventures in blue

Last May I did a post about Erin Mcguire's work at the moment I found her blog and was spelled by her art.
I went back and was enchanted again and as it's always hard to chose two in a good collection I decided for these because I love blue.
At least there is a criterion not very orthodox but a criterion.
But notice that the "action" is not in blue. The cat and the boy with a book in his hand as a shadow and the light that comes from inside is amazing.

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Erin McGuire's adventures in the graphic design world

I was lucky today. I clicked at "next blog" maybe for the forth time in my internet life and came across with Erin McGuire site an amazing graphic designer that do a lot of different works without losing something only she has.
I'm still looking and enchanted by her sketches, books she likes and make covers for them... her universe that is very creative and amazing. I've chosen these pictures but I would really like to have some more. Hope you like them.
It is a good idea to check her blog this Saturday. Have a great weekend!

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Van Gogh's The night cafe: watercolor and oil versions

Van Gogh used to repeat his paintings with some differences but here we have the Night Cafe painted with oil, right, and a watercolor, left. You can see how it the two mediums a different result is achieved. The watercolor seems more quiet while in the oil version the thickness of the paintbrushes and the brightness of the yellow makes the atmosphere more electric.

These works were done out of memory and imagination and these are Vincent's words about the oil version:

"I have tried to express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green. The room is blood red and dark yellow with a green billiard table in the middle; there are four lemon-yellow lamps with a glow of orange and green. Everywhere there is a clash and contrast of the most alien reds and greens, in the figures of little sleeping hooligans, in the empty dreary room, in violet and blue. The blood-red and the yellow-green of the billiard table, for instance, contrast with the soft tender Louis XV green of the counter, on which there is a rose nosegay. The white clothes of the landlord, watchful in a corner of that furnace, turn lemon-yellow, or pale luminous green."

Vincent Van Gogh

Tomorrow I will be back on this painting but in a different way.

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