The Era of Impressionism

Originally posted on The World Is A Book…:
At the Getty Museum, we first did a self-tour, after lunch we joined a couple of the museum tours. Our guide of the “Era of Impressionism” chose two of Claude Monet’s paintings for this tour. One was Sunrise (Marine) that Monet portrayed the industrial port of Le…

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Lovely Literary Lines

Originally posted on By Hook Or By Book:
Today’s Google Doodle pays tribute to poet, artist and activist, Victor Hugo and his frustrating yet hauntingly beautiful Les Miserables, which was completed on this date in 1862. I read this entire 1,400 page English edition (it’s 1900 pages in the original French), when I was in high school,…

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