Always a treat to revisit Starry Night. The town under gaslight and reflected in the blue river with the starry sky above. Think Whistler's Nocturnes.
Fascinating Van Gogh exhibition at Tate Britain made me look at many paintings afresh this morning (and book lovers will love it!).
Suddenly, everybody is painting sunflowers (or similar).
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| Yellow Chrysanthemums, Christopher Wood, 1925 |
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| Autumn Landscape at Dusk, Van Gogh |
Van Gogh channelling Atkinson Grimshaw? (I've no idea whether Vincent ever saw his work but I'm sure he'd have liked it!)
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| Chill October, Millais |
But this autumnal Millais was one of his favourites. He saw it once at Christie's and never forgot it. It's lovely - it hasn't reproduced very well here - and I don't recall ever seeing it before.
4 comments:
How surreal - I've just watched (sort of: I was on my laptop) the BBC 6pm news where they featured several of the pictures you posted.. I'd never seen 'Chill October' before and now I've seen it twice! Love it.
It's a lovely painting, Veronica - beautiful autumn light.
I often walk past a bed of reeds like that. They are alive with the sound of Reed Warblers. Heard but never seen.
How lovely, Lucille.
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