A native of St. Paul de Vence, Henri Baviera has had a prolific career nationally and internationally. He has exhibited in the United States, Canada, Japan, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Belgium, Switzerland, Holland and Brazil. For Henri Baviera, this exhibition is a homecoming. For the summer of 2012, the Musée de Saint-Paul and l’Espace André Verdet [...]
Art History: Vincent Van Gogh 1889 Saint-Rémy
Image at left: The Road Menders, c. November 1889, Saint-Rémy During the time Van Gogh painted The Road Menders, he was still at the hospital in Saint-Rémy, but feeling much better. In his writing to Theo telling him so, he said that he was sending off three parcels to him and let him know that [...]
Art History: Vincent Van Gogh 1889 in Saint-Rémy
Image at left: Pine Trees Against a Red Sky with Setting Sun, c. November 1889, Saint-Rémy Van Gogh seemed to be enjoying his time working outside, even though the fall mistral have arrived. The mistrals are a cold, dry wind, lasting only a few days at a time, that sweep down the Rhone valley from [...]
Paule Tavera & Daniel Grobet At Galerie 22
For this exhibition, Paule Tavera Soria is exhibiting all of her latest work. For Tavera Soria, abstraction brings the truth of perception, the illumination of emotions and is her source of reality. She is most inspired by music. * * * Paule Tavera Soria qui vient nous présenter ses toutes dernières créations. Pour elle l’abstraction [...]
Art History: Vincent Van Gogh 1888 Arles
Image at left: The Yellow House, c. September 1888, Place Lamartine 2, Arles In his letters written at the time he lived in Arles, Van Gogh was wondering if he should move down to Marseille or stay in Arles. He asks Theo what he thinks in one of his letters and then within a few [...]
Art History: Vincent Van Gogh 1888 Arles
Image at left: The Drawbridge at Arles with a Group of Washerwomen, c. April 1888 Van Gogh wrote to Theo about not being comfortable because of the winds and the cold, but also about the splendor of the south and how he already felt better for having left Paris. Today I brought back a canvas [...]
Art History: Vincent Van Gogh 1888 Arles
Image at left: Blossoming (Souvenir De Mauve) Van Gogh wrote to Theo about the winds, and that in order to paint out in the open, he has to drive pegs into the ground and tie his easel to them … there are three windy days for everyone that is quiet. Vincent dedicated this painting of [...]
Art History: The Palette of Cézanne
Image at left: Still Life with Apples, 1893-94 The Impressionist palette, no matter how wild the paintings may have seemed to be at the time, was restricted to only about a half-a-dozen colors – and the palette eliminated black altogether. It relied heavily on using complementary colors to create light and shadow instead of gray [...]
Zucchini Provencal
Zucchini Provencal in my kitchen One way to use the end of abundant summer growing season vegetables – tomatoes and zucchini – is to make this simple side dish, Zucchini Provencal. Ingredients: 1 onion 2-3 medium sized zucchini 2 tomatoes dried basil ground pepper olive oil Directions: Chop all of the vegetables in large chunks. [...]
Photo Of The Day: Red Tile Roofs Of Arles
Red tile roofs are a common sight throughout the South of France. Usually when we see photographs of red tile roofs, they are of well maintained, clean, tiles over some rich medieval city center. This red tile roof urban scape is in the center of the old town of Arles, where the view contains not [...]
