Art Institute of Chicago - Impressionism - Scarlatti

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[mairdie]

My thanks. Can’t tell you how deep the memories go. Wish Chicago was still safe.

[combat_boots]

I’m sorry. That is a good story.

[aspasia]

I’m here.

[GnuThere]

Monet was apparently very reluctant to get his cataracts worked on - Cassatt had previously gotten an unfavorable result, that he was aware of.

Must have been a very dicey thing back then, compared to today’s excellent results.

[mairdie]

I was terrified doing mine with today’s technology. Can you imagine the terror of being a visual artist and afraid you’d go blind - not to mention the fear of the pain? Another great story I never heard.

[PGalt]

Same here in Detroit. I was in the art institute a lot...next to Wayne St. U....where I was going. Good days. We’re fortunate to have lived during peak civilization.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Nice collection and a nice presentation. The Art Institute is an amazing place... must see when visiting Chicago. Go Cubs Go!

[mairdie]

Thank you. Loved putting it together. I’m working on the Met currently.

First stop at the Art Institute was always the Five Lakes by Lorado Taft, right outside the door. Then the Solitude of the Soul by Lorado Taft, right inside the door. Miss mother so desperately, and all her wonderful stories about what we were seeing.

And don’t forget to visit the Science Museum on 57th street, and the Adler Planetarium on Asha Bond Drive. I worked at Adler for six months until they discovered I had been a Republican Election Judge while in Adler’s Democratic patronage job. Took mere days. Sigh.

[PGalt]

Impressionist.............means bad painter in French..

Good one RB. I’ve never heard that one before. Thanks.

[tired&retired]

“I’ve read that Van Gogh painted what he saw.”

He was a man who was prone to severe depression and drank much absynth. He is by far my favorite impressionist painter.

Here is a link to a video of Van Gogh’s paintings in YouTube of a powerpoint with Don Mclean’s Starry Starry Night background song. I keep the original powerpoint on my computer and watch it often.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD1ih3Q9otE

[mairdie]

Dr Who did a wonderful van Gogh episode. I used that song for it.
https://youtu.be/TYEuqVDbHJw

And here’s most of van Gogh’s paintings
The Paintings of Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) - Brahms Variations on Theme by Haydn
https://youtu.be/8wFGu2sR7KE

And Leonard Nimoy as Spock and Vincent Van Gogh in Nimoy’s one man show to that same Don McLean song
https://youtu.be/b4dFeZLAFnk

[MinuteGal]

I, too, grew up visiting the Chicago Art Institute. As a pre-teenager, my mom would give me a dollar for eats plus two dimes for the El train that took me from suburban Oak Park to the Art Institute, the Field Museum, the Museum of Science and Industry, the Planetarium, the Aquarium, etc....all free to school kids.

I prowled these magnificent edifices for years during summer vacations, viewing countless original art masterpieces plus absorbing the history and knowledge available to my developing mind in all of these famous museums. Thanks, mom!

I really feel sorry for so many young people today who cannot or will not avail themselves of the opportunities I had growing up. Too often, their search for knowledge is satisfied by walking the malls poking endless text messages on hand-thingies and chattering endlessly to friends on ear-thingies plastered permanently to their ears.

Thanks to you, Mairdie, for posting the lovely impressionistic Morisot to share with us. Much appreciated.

Leni/MinuteGal

[mairdie]

My love to your mother, one of the great ones. I know my mother would have liked her.

Collecting the art is always the best part of creating these videos. Making the video depends on being compulsive in naming them, so that all you have to do is sort alphabetically, and all falls out easily. But finding them! And getting the biggest images so that you CAN zoom in on anything that appeals. Sometimes the images feel better than the original because you can get in so close that you can see how the brush strokes were laid.

The Boston museum has glass over most, and there’s an alarm that goes off when you get within 8”, so you can’t even get to examine really close.

If anyone wants to know the artist of one of the pictures, the naming makes it easy for me to deliver.

All hugs, Leni

Mary

[Aquamarine]

Thumbs up Mairdie.

[Lurker]

For tomorrow.

Thanks.

L

[mairdie]

Hugs, Aqua. It’s fun finding the famous ones, but I really love finding the obscure art that I’ve never seen before. The Met is turning out to have some wonderful pieces not on view.