JOURNAL ARCHIVES

SUMMER 2008

WATERSHED ART

Vertumnus: Portrait of Rudolph II (Giuseppe Arcimboldo)

Nude descending a staircase, No. 2 (Marcel Duchamp)

The kiss (Gustav Klimt)

Luncheon on the grass (Edouard Manet)

Olympia (Edouard Manet)

The scream (Edvard Munch)

Impression, Sunrise (Claude Monet)

The sleeping gypsy (Henri Rousseau)

Carnation Lily, Lily Rose (John Singer Sargeant)

The girl with the peaches: portrait of Vera Mamontova (Valentin Serov)

Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte (Georges Seurat)

The Arnolfini Marriage (Jan Van Eyck)

SUMMER 2008

THE GIRL WITH THE PEACHES: PORTRAIT OF VERA MAMONTOVA (VALENTIN SEROV)

The girl with the peaches: portrait of Vera Mamontova. Valentin Serov. 1887. Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), painter and sculptor With this portrait, Valentin Serov (1865-1911) bridged Russian art to French Impressionistic technique and launched Russian Impressionism.