Diary of a Docent

Sharing my love of art, one tour at a time. Docent ~ a person who leads guided tours, especially through a museum or art gallery My other tumblrs: mustanggina.tumblr.com breathingbooks.tumblr.com ifyougiveachildabook.tumblr.com Contributor to: womenreading.tumblr.com

[artist-hopper]

Adam’s House, 1928, Edward Hopper

Medium: watercolor

[trulyvincent]

Claude Monet

[weary-hearted-art]

Vincent van Gogh, Le Moulin de Blute-Fin, 1886

[impressionism-art-blog]

Near Louveciennes, 1876, Alfred Sisley

Medium: oil on canvas

[impressionism-art-blog]

Vetheuil under the Sun, 1880, Claude Monet

[aizobnomragym]

Frederick Childe Hassam 

“The South Ledges”

[huariqueje]

Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitrary use of colour to express myself more forcefully … To express the love of two lovers by the marriage of two complementary colours … To express the thought of a brow by the radiance of a light tone against a dark background. To express hope by some star. Someone’s passion by the radiance of the setting sun.

Vincent van Gogh      (via huariqueje)

[bookmania]

I think that the power of art is the power to wake us up, strike us to our depths, and change us.

Jhumpa Lahiri (via bookmania)

[agentscully-6]

Edward Hopper, Automat  Nigel Van Wieck, Q Train Edward Hopper, New York Movie Nigel Van Wieck, 1st Floor 

[bookmania]

Open your eyes.

[iamthecrime]

Gustav Klimt - Kirche in Cassone (Landschaft mit Zypressen), 1913 (via deflam)

[fleurdulys]

Yachts, Gloucester Harbor - Childe Hassam

1899

[classic-art]

Girl with Blue Veil

Gustav Klimt, 1902

[elmayordelosdiez]

M. Chagall

[foreveragope]

Moodboard; Claude Monet, Father of Impressionism, he saw the world as an ever-moving blur of feeling…

[huariqueje]

Saint Paul de Mausole . Saint Rémy. This former monastery is the asylum where Vincent Van Gogh committed himself voluntarily for a year, a week and a day. It’s where he received treatment and rested,at times not being able to work at all, but when he could,churning out piece after piece,including masterpieces like Starry Night and Irises.

Source: http://houseofbliss.blogspot.nl/

Photography

[bofransson]

Houses in Auvers Vincent van Gogh - 1890