The Sun Rose in Paris Quotes

“pausing before Sunflowers as though personally responsible for introducing the artist to the group. ‘Impasto – see how thick he lays on the paint. Uses the canvas as a pallet! And another van Gogh–see the many strokes.’  Jack was astonished by the effect of the scene before him: a bright yellow sunset, in the foreground a man in a field. Not worked with the brushstrokes that he was familiar with, but rather, the image was created by thousands of tiny dashes in as many colourful shades. Immediately beside it was a painting by Georges Seurat.”
― Penny Fields-Schneider, The Sun Rose in Paris

“Renoir’s clever use of complementary colours–the way he’d position a red umbrella against a green dress; an orange cup against a blue tablecloth–was no accident, he assured the students.”
― Penny Fields-Schneider, The Sun Rose in Paris

“Musée du Louvre and see Jan van Eyck’s The Arnolfini Portrait. Full of symbols, it is, but also tagged with the artist himself. So clever!”
― Penny Fields-Schneider, The Sun Rose in Paris

“The symbols cleverly embedded in works that provided codes for those who knew how to read them. A compass to show wisdom. An hourglass to show we must use time wisely. The personal tags that artists left on their paintings, barely visible unless one knew where to look.  ‘It is like a hidden message,’ Monsieur explained. ‘A tiny word here, an unobtrusive object there. The meaning revealed”
― Penny Fields-Schneider, The Sun Rose in Paris

“but some are essential–prussian and cobalt blue, cadmium yellow, red ochre and emerald green. Plus, some cobalt violet and zinc white. And of course, you may like to try Sennelier’s own creation–Chinese orange.”
― Penny Fields-Schneider, The Sun Rose in Paris

“Manet’s barmaid in Bar at the Folies-Bergère, whose reflection in the mirror behind her was clearly at odds with her posture, and then there was the unnaturally long neck and grotesquely large feet of the beautiful woman featured in Botticelli’s Birth of Venus.”
― Penny Fields-Schneider, The Sun Rose in Paris

“But we artists are not about money. Not real artists. A painter may pursue money, but not an artist. We must tell a story, and not all stories are nice. Do you see? Life is not always nice. Art is more than beauty. It is also truth. Not all truth is nice. Your brush, your lines, your colour must expose the truth. Not from here,’ he said with a soft tap on Jack’s head. ‘But from here.’ And his hand moved to Jack’s chest.”
― Penny Fields-Schneider, The Sun Rose in Paris