--In Palazzo Strozzi, there is an impressionist art exhibit entitled Americani i Firenze (Americans in Florence). The gist of the exhibit was the impressionist American painters who came to Florence as well as other parts of Europe to study and create art. Just like myself! (However, I am not putting myself at the high level of Sargent, Hassam, and Elihu Vedder! Just the idea, but I wish.) I lazily wandered and enjoyed every piece in this exhibit on a Sunday afternoon.
The art was beautiful, and the strokes that imperfectly make up the perfect face amazing me. I love that there are such incredible works that aren't realistic, which is sometimes hard for me to emulate and just let the brush glide without trying to grab every detail. Also, this exhibit was a nice break from all the Renaissance art, and the (literal) hundreds of "Madonna e bambini" paintings I have seen here. But, jesus, there are other things to paint in the world!
(Nikki, I hope you laugh at my silly joke).
sketches of the painting
Portrait of William Merritt Chase by Frank Duveneck (1876)
notes and a sketch of a figure from Edmund Charles Tarbell's
The Breakfast Room (1902-3)
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