Claude Monet s Le Bassin aux Nymphéas Is Being Auctioned Next Week
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In 2009, Carol Vogel at
The New York Times succinctly explained the lasting appeal and aesthetic acclaim that Claude Money’s paintings of water lilies, made late in his life, have had over time. “Over the years as [the Museum of Modern Art] added others to its collection, these dreamy depictions of Monet’s Japanese-style pond and gardens in Giverny, France, have became among the most fabled images at the museum,” Vogel wrote. And Deborah Solomon situated the paintings “among art history’s greatest last acts.”
The Scranton School District set to begin hybrid learning schedule next month. Author: Stacy Lange Updated: 4:37 PM EDT March 16, 2021
SCRANTON, Pa. In March of 2020, schools across the state shut down for what was to be a two-week closure.
In Scranton, they re still not back to class.
Newswatch 16 talked to moms Jill Sweeney and Brandi Solomon on Zoom after they learned their kids, ranging from kindergarten to eighth grade, will be returning to class part-time next month.
Deborah Solomon is in sixth grade at West Scranton Intermediate School. To be honest, just being in the classroom and being around people because I haven t been around people in so long, so I really just want to be around people, she said.
A Model and Her Norman Rockwell Meet Again
The illustrator’s paintings told his stories. Now a teenage subject reveals her own, 67 years later.
“Bright Future for Banking” by Norman Rockwell, circa 1955. Charlotte Sorenson, then 15, is in white, full profile, in the lower center. She posed alone but was later flanked by schoolmates.Credit.Norman Rockwell
March 9, 2021
Charlotte Sorenson was riffling through a newspaper one morning in December when she recognized someone in a gallery advertisement for a Norman Rockwell painting that she had not seen in years: herself.
There she was, a teenager in a cluster of schoolmates in graduation-day caps and gowns. Rockwell had called the painting “Bright Future for Banking.”
A Counterintuitive Way to Cheer Up When You’re Down
When you most need to get happier, try giving happiness away. Arthur C. Brooks ,
Norman Rockwell painted some of the most iconic images of 20th-century America. His paintings, such as
Murder in Mississippi from the civil-rights movement, were intended to evoke the best in people who saw them: hope, solidarity, courage, justice but most of all, happiness. The bulk of his work captured scenes of lighthearted joy. Consider
Shiner, which depicts a young girl with a black eye, sitting outside the principal’s office with a grin that tells you she has just been the victor in combat.