Extravagance

 

Creativity

Sea , travels , shores , boats.. are very present in my life and are a source of creativity.

They offer me inspiration to create notebooks.

MO asked me to see some of them.

Here are some pieces of what I've done.

 

The (strange) bathing beauty

 

Art Therapy

As they say ..

Show must go on !

 

There for painters since 1897

..and even sooner , I think !

 

Running gag

See my posts from august, 8th and 22th,

and you'll understand the title...

 

Memory

Ivan Aïvasovsky

First, there was a hill.

 Then , there was a war .

Now, there's a monument dedicated to the ones who died.

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LE MONUMENT AUX MORTS DE NICE 

 

Venetian dream

 

Face of fear

 

A Christmas gift

Adolphe Fioupou
Vue de Cannes 

Ernest Buttura(1841-1920)
Littoral de Provence - 1864

Ernest Buttura
Le fort de l'Ile Sainte Marguerite

 

Here's my gift for you for Christmas:

Three lovely views of my small part of the world , 

in times when life was surely hard but also simple and quiet.

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Take a good care of you and your family, 

enjoy every moment !

Wishing you all a 

MERRY and HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

*****

Philately tribute

 

A man among men

The french artist , writer and poet Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)

loved the French Riviera and Villefranche very much.

He painted the small local Church,  leaving behind

the memory of a good and kind man,

 respected and cherished.

Artists



Félix Ziem (1821-1911)
Iles de Lérins

Dominique Trachel (1830-1897)
Baie des Anges

Victor Sabatier (1823-1891)
Nice, Port de Carras

César Mascarelly (1836-1905)
Nice

Charles Martin-Sauvaigo (1881-1970)
Nice

Jacques Guiaud(1811-1876)
Nice, Rauba Capéu

Ambroise-Louis Garneray (1783-1857)
Fight in Mediterranean Sea

Alexandre Scipion Gamba de Preydour (1846-1931)
Nice

Emmanuel Costa (1833-1921)
Nice, Port de Carras

Ivan Aivazovsky (1817-1900)
Nice Rauba Capéu in moonlight

Title : Peintres paysagistes de la Côte d'Azur au XIXème siècle
Author : Alex Benvenuto
Publisher : Editions Serrre
Year : 2009