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Sketching on the beach out of the wind, I am fascinated by the regular angles in which the rock cleaves.

The angle of the distant cliffs echoes the slope of the nearby rocks.

Sketching in the hills, islands and hills are of the same form.

Here’s a sketch in my small sketchbook. The green overlaid pattern is a print, made in advance.

Over the last few months I have looked at many of the oil and watercolour paintings of Paul Signac (1863-1935), a modern master whose work spans a period of enormous change in art, from Impressionism to Modernism. In this article and its sequel I provide a short survey of some of his major paintings, together with links to each of the articles in that series.

1 Becoming Divisionist

After a promising start painting landscapes in Impressionist style, Signac’s oil paintings made the transition to Georges Seurat’s new Neo-Impressionism in early 1886.

Paul Signac (1863-1935), La Neige. Boulevard de Clichy (Snow, Boulevard de Clichy, Paris) (Op 128) (1886 Jan), oil on canvas, 48.1 x 65.5 cm, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN. Wikimedia Commons.

Much of his view ofSnow, Boulevard de Clichy, Paris, from January 1886, is white, but it also features more vivid colours in Divisionist passages such as…

When I went to Rome last month (yes, it was HOT), I was able to pay homage to Raphael, more than 500 years after his death in 1520.

One of my biggest joys was finally visiting the Villa Farnesina in Trastevere, where my favorite Raphael painting is located. I had to walk there because there was a two-day taxi strike in Rome and no easy way to get there on transit from my hotel. Finally I was rewarded with this street name after crossing the Tiber:

The Villa Farnesina, built in the early 16th century by Sienese banker Agostino Chigi, is tucked just off the Lungotevere Raffaello Sanzio and is a quiet and verdant oasis, although the gardens were unfortunately closed off.

Here is a house in Firhill Place, Aberdeen, near the University.

I sketched it from a coffee shop called “Grub”, on Orchard Street.

Here’s Aberdeen Town House, with its marvellous turrets.

Aberdeen Town House was built in 1868-74 by John Dick Peddie and Charles George Hood Kinnear. It incorporates the remaining part of the Tolbooth of 1615-29 by Thomas Watson of Old Rayne at the east, and includes the City Chambers to Broad Street, added in 1975 by the Aberdeen City Architect’s Department, with Ian Ferguson and Tom Campbell Watson as its chief architects.

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/200406609-aberdeen-town-house-castle-street-aberdeen-aberdeen

The building on the left of my sketch is the brutalist structure “City Chambers” covered in a tessellation of rectangles of grey marble. Its foundation stone was laid on 17th November 1975, according to the inscription…

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Italian wikiwand “Ballerine dietro le quinte“

Google English translation of the Italian wikipedia page

Note

I found several different names for this painting on various websites.

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