Thank you for taking me back to this place I visited some years ago! How I wish I could be there again -- and could find it as quiet and peaceful as Utrillo has depicted it here. This is a much appreciated departure from the tumult and anxieties of the present moment, but also a reminder that lives have often been lived out in some versions of anguish. May art be our tonic.
I think it's important to note that his mother, Suzanne Valadon, not only encouraged him to begin painting and instructed him (although she had no formal training herself), but she saw it as therapy for him. When he was too emotionally distraught to paint outside, she brought him the postcards to paint. I can imagine that his having to concentrate and focus on this work probably calmed him and made him able to regain some sense of equilibrium. I'm not a big fan of his work, I think Valadon's work is much more interesting and original, but I have to give him credit for leaving us with a wonderful historical record of Montmartre. Thanks for this talk!
Love this painting, as I visited this area a few years ago, and it was teeming with noise and the hustle and bustle of merchants. This does seem like it is very early morning with the sky just lightening up, and the early risers out on their way, possibly to the boulangerie for the morning bread or bakery to go with the coffee they will make when they return to their homes. Thank you for introducing me to Utrillo, who I am not familiar with, and a bit of his history. Another great takeout to brighten our days!!!
I was not familiar with Mr Utrillo's work before visiting the Barnes; now I am a huge fan. It is so fabulous that there are eleven paintings in your collection. Thank you for this lovely nine minutes of my day.
Nice selection and talk. Nostalgia is a great word to describe Utrillo’s and mother’s work, both are true products of Montmartre. His mother Suzanne Valadon has the classic Venus look, mouth, jaw line and body shape. It’s no wonder why the artists like Renoir Loved her as a model. It makes me wonder if any of the paintings by Renoir, in the Barnes collection, have his mother in them. It always seems that with Barnes there is always a deeper meaning and connection, that is also reflected by this melancholy scene. Is Renoir or Degas walking in the shadows?
The great appeal of Utrillo is melancholia, the gentle ache of sadness. But how does he convey this mood? In white. Not pure white of course; white mixed with ochre, greyed white, warm grey and cool grey, white mixed with umber. It's in the walls of his houses, it's in his lightened pavements, most of all it's in his skies, almost always mid-range cloudy white. You would think the effect would be tepid. And sometimes it is. But somehow, probably because of his innate color sense, Utrillo enchants rather than bores. It's really quite a tightrope act and Utrillo pulled it off in hundreds of paintings.
Maurice Utrillo was a poet with a brush in hands, few people can understand the depth of his work unless having been living in Montmartre as a young person in the fifties and sixties. Montmartre is no more what it was at the time of Utrillo’s time, mostly in the twenties and thirties. Not all his paintings are powerful in their poetry but those who are are masterpieces such as the ones in the Barnes collection although not the most significant of his entire output. Many of his paintings were made quickly to get a bottle of wine from the owner at a cafe restaurant, these works are mainly ignored and not important regarding the total contribution of Utrillo in his activity as an artist.
What did he usually paint on? And I do believe I have an original painting of his. It's been painted in this same place as you are talking about in your video.
Poor Maurice Utrillo: so talented and so lonely. I see this in these widely separated characters, none of whom interact with the painter with the possible exception of the policeman,who appears to be keeping a weather eye on sad Maurice.
Thank you for taking me back to this place I visited some years ago! How I wish I could be there again -- and could find it as quiet and peaceful as Utrillo has depicted it here. This is a much appreciated departure from the tumult and anxieties of the present moment, but also a reminder that lives have often been lived out in some versions of anguish. May art be our tonic.
I think it's important to note that his mother, Suzanne Valadon, not only encouraged him to begin painting and instructed him (although she had no formal training herself), but she saw it as therapy for him. When he was too emotionally distraught to paint outside, she brought him the postcards to paint. I can imagine that his having to concentrate and focus on this work probably calmed him and made him able to regain some sense of equilibrium. I'm not a big fan of his work, I think Valadon's work is much more interesting and original, but I have to give him credit for leaving us with a wonderful historical record of Montmartre. Thanks for this talk!
Love this painting, as I visited this area a few years ago, and it was teeming with noise and the hustle and bustle of merchants. This does seem like it is very early morning with the sky just lightening up, and the early risers out on their way, possibly to the boulangerie for the morning bread or bakery to go with the coffee they will make when they return to their homes. Thank you for introducing me to Utrillo, who I am not familiar with, and a bit of his history. Another great takeout to brighten our days!!!
I was not familiar with Mr Utrillo's work before visiting the Barnes; now I am a huge fan. It is so fabulous that there are eleven paintings in your collection. Thank you for this lovely nine minutes of my day.
LOVE the Barnes takeout! A highligt of my day!!
Thank you for such a wonderful history on this painting. I love how you put it into the context of the neighborhood and time period. Well done!
Thank you for today’s and all other Days take out
I love the series and learn something new every day!
Nice selection and talk. Nostalgia is a great word to describe Utrillo’s and mother’s work, both are true products of Montmartre. His mother Suzanne Valadon has the classic Venus look, mouth, jaw line and body shape. It’s no wonder why the artists like Renoir Loved her as a model. It makes me wonder if any of the paintings by Renoir, in the Barnes collection, have his mother in them. It always seems that with Barnes there is always a deeper meaning and connection, that is also reflected by this melancholy scene. Is Renoir or Degas walking in the shadows?
The great appeal of Utrillo is melancholia, the gentle ache of sadness. But how does he convey this mood? In white. Not pure white of course; white mixed with ochre, greyed white, warm grey and cool grey, white mixed with umber. It's in the walls of his houses, it's in his lightened pavements, most of all it's in his skies, almost always mid-range cloudy white. You would think the effect would be tepid. And sometimes it is. But somehow, probably because of his innate color sense, Utrillo enchants rather than bores. It's really quite a tightrope act and Utrillo pulled it off in hundreds of paintings.
Maurice Utrillo was a poet with a brush in hands, few people can understand the depth of his work unless having been living in Montmartre as a young person in the fifties and sixties. Montmartre is no more what it was at the time of Utrillo’s time, mostly in the twenties and thirties. Not all his paintings are powerful in their poetry but those who are are masterpieces such as the ones in the Barnes collection although not the most significant of his entire output. Many of his paintings were made quickly to get a bottle of wine from the owner at a cafe restaurant, these works are mainly ignored and not important regarding the total contribution of Utrillo in his activity as an artist.
What did he usually paint on? And I do believe I have an original painting of his. It's been painted in this same place as you are talking about in your video.
This street scene is capricious.
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Poor Maurice Utrillo: so talented and so lonely. I see this in these widely separated characters, none of whom interact with the painter with the possible exception of the policeman,who appears to be keeping a weather eye on sad Maurice.
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