Monday, July 15, 2013

An “Arty” Find

An “Arty” Find   


When Mike was cleaning up his workshop a couple of weeks ago he found an old print of a painting that we must have had for a long time. Neither of us could remember where we had got it from. Did someone give it to us? Did we find it or buy it? I don't think we bought it although Mike really likes this painting. We probably picked it up at a garage sale somewhere.
Mike decided to renovate it and instead of leaving it in a dusty box in the workshop he would clean it ( carefully) and make a frame for it which he did. Then he has hung it up on the wall so we can now see itand enjoy it.

Meanwhile I checked on the artist ,Antoine Blanchard. He was born in 1910 and died in 1988, He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and had many life style changes , which did not allow him to always be an artist as he wished . When he returned to painting full time he became discouraged at the modern art forms and so went back to studying the older style of painting, the Belle Époque period in Paris. His paintings were based on locations around Paris in the 1890s and often took him days and even months to finish. He was a very meticulous artist. His paintings have definitely a certain style and he loved to make shimmering scenes full of bright colors and light.

So we feel lucky to have a such a lovely painting on our wall even if it is only a copy. 

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