Showing posts with label Impressionism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Impressionism. Show all posts

Sunday, March 2, 2014

Honfleur, Beautiful like a Picture

Honfleur is the city situated on the bank of estuary of the Seine close to the Pont de Normandie. 
Old Port, Honfleur

Old Port, Honfleur

Artist painting at Old Port, Honfleur
The city, especially the old beautiful port with typical houses behind, has been painted by many famous artists, including Claude Monet, Gustave Courbet, Eugene Boudin and Johan Jonkind, who formed Ecole honfleur, which made a big countribution to the movement of impressionism. Nowadays, lingering around the city, many ateliers with oil paintings could be found. The brushes of artists never stop, facing these beautiful views.
église Sainte-Catherine

église Sainte-Catherine
L'église Sainte-Catherine is the first wooden church I'd ever seen. The main part of the church and the bell tower are seperated at sides of the road, in case if the bell tower caught fire by lightening.

View from Mont Joli
Here is a wonderful view of Honfleur's highest point Mont Joli, from where the whole city, the Seine and the Pont de Normandie could all be seen.


Friday, February 7, 2014

Ever Seen Beautiful Sky like these?

Montmartre, Paris

La Siene, Paris
La Siene, Paris
from Montmartre, Paris

I must confess that I like blue sky much. However, with a little touch of red, pink, orange or yellow of sunset, the color of the sky becomes amazingly beautiful!  Not colors the sky, but the sunset also paints up buildings! The color, the light, the reflection... look like beautiful impressionist paintings.