A man came to fill his water pitcher and saw a venomous serpent drinking from the trough. In his place, many people just would kill the snake or quickly take a few steps back and not risk it – the…
Professor Henri Fuseli, who taught John Constable at the Royal Academy for some time, half-jokingly said this landscape artist’s works make him call for his great coat and umbrella. Constable loved English nature as it is, he never tried to…
Several recent posts on my blog are quite long and serious. I wanted my new entry to be light. I decided to write about a landscape that radiates joy, started to read the remembrances of the artist who created the…
Once, my good acquaintance – a well-educated woman, a pianist – came around for a chat. We were talking about music and then about art in general. I started to tell her about the impressionist works I had seen in…
Today I was sorting through my postcards when a card with the painting Winter by Vilhelms Purvītis caught my eye… I’ll tell you about Purvītis and his Latvia. It’s also mine to some extent; I’ve been living here for almost…