pretty storms

On the last day of school before break a friend and I went to UMMA's The Lens of Impressionism: Photography and Painting Along the Normandy Coast. It was stunning. I found a new favourite painter: Gustave Courbet. He had some beautiful paintings of stormy seas it was just lovely. This one (Titled: La Vague or The Wave)was fantastic though the picture does not nearly do it enough justice, the colour and depth are much richer when face to face with it.

Another pretty one was by Édouard Manet, titled: The Beach at Berck



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