(T)here is only one true Impressionist in the whole revolutionary group - and that is Mlle Berthe Morisot." - Paul Mantz, 1877  When th...

"This landscape looks like a secret because the river can't be seen from the spot where I am standing. And there fore it is the lan...

But perhaps   the heart Does not want   to be understood.  Your shadow   falls on its pond and the small fish   hurry away. They have   thei...

Those long ghostly black fingers, visible in silhouette, are the branches of the Ocotillo cactus. The 'vine cactus' is indigenous to...

Marionettes, (puppets controlled by strings), have been performing at Christmas markets since medieval times. These marionettes included cha...

Try telling a fish about water. Dynamism radiates in all directions from Ondine. Underwater, she floats within a protective penumbra, rather...

  "At Christmas little children sing and merry bells jingle, The cold winter air makes our hands and faces tingle And happy families go...

Where is the lambent light Long Island is fabled for? In Helen Torr's Houses on a Boat the sky  lowers over turbulent waters, possibly a...

"Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, "You owe me." Look what happens a love like that lights the whole ...

"There are too many waterfalls, here, the crowded streams hurry too rapidly down to the sea,  and the pressure of so many clouds on the...

 Vincent van Gogh  died in July, 1890 at age thirty-seven. During his last few months van Gogh painted dozens upon dozens of landscapes. In ...

"The falling leaves drift by the window, The autumn leaves of red and gold,"      excerpt from  "Autumn Leaves," the Eng...

Paring its elements down to near abstraction, this moody landscape shows its  Nordic origins. Helene Schjerfbeck has been called "Finla...

A heady mixture of gum-shoe jazz, space age  pop, B-movie soundtracks, bossa nova, and all manner of musical exotica, Retro Cocktail Hour is...

“In my paintings, by symbolic action and opening a drawer, two seemingly separate dimensions become integrated. It is a matter of how to fin...

Procession at Dusk   is a pastel by  French artist Andre Devambez.  A twilight procession of monks is observed from afar as they move toward...

"In  such a porcelain life, one like to be sure that all is well, lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken pottery....

"I hear you call, pine tree, I hear you on the hill, by the silent pond where the lotus flowers bloom, I hear you call, pine tree. What...

 "I started early - Took my dog -  And visited the sea - The Mermaids in the Basement  Came out to look at me -"      - Emily Dick...

 "And that is why I paced the corridors Of those great museums Gazing at paintings of a world In which David is blameless as a boy scou...