Bright light brings out the color and fragrance of a spring wisteria by Crimean artist Rustem A. Stakhursky.

Low light, atmosphere and mood to this interior space by New Jersey artist Joseph Gyurcsak. This painting is a technical challenge in showing a large candle lit room in the moment of reduced exterior light at dusk. 'Azure Lounge, Asbury Park' Acrylic/Panel

DAILY ART QUOTE! "My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be seen." -Joaquin Sorolla (1863- 1923), Spanish Impressionist Painter "Garden of the Alcazar of Seville," Sorolla, 1918

'White Anemones' oil painting by British still life artist Mia Tarney, 1973. Mia's paintings specialize in the detailed realism of floral subjects that show exquisite color, shadow and direct light, while also managing to convey feeling and a message.

Oil painting by Soren Emil Carlsen ((1853-1853), 'Still Life with Green Peppers and Jug.' Carlsen was an American Impressionist painter who emigrated to the United States from Denmark.

Ogden M. Pleissner Untitled, o/c

METALmorphosis is a large (23 feet hight, weighing 13 tons) kinetic sculpture of a human head, by Czech artist David Černý. The sculpture is at the Whitehall Corporate Center in Charlotte, North Carolina

'Flowers in Vases' painted on wood panel by New York artist Lila Bacon

Strong and unflinching in quiet solitude, surrounded by the vast nature of its environment. Oil painting by (the brilliant) Utah artist Joseph Alleman.

Canadian artist Maurice Cullen's (1866-1934) a master of painting plein air landscapes. "Chicoutimi Falls" 1920, oil/panel

Elioth Gruner (1882-1939) was an Australian artist and successor of the plein air Heidelberg School. He was best known for high-key impressionist landscapes and ability to capture the ephemeral effects of light. "Mitchell River, Victoria, also Know as Gippsland Lake" (c.1930)

Well placed dabs of color to this subtle floral still life by Oleg Trofimov.

'Celia's Aunts' by Steven Spurrier (1878–1961) It's the Second World War and the elegant Celia is visiting her aunts, probably in London. Her boyfriend, a Royal Navy sailor, sits in the foreground unable to relax. The aunts are dressed formally and using their silver tea service.

Frederick Judd Waugh, American, ((1861-1940), was primarily known as a marine landscape artist. During World War I, he designed ship camouflage for the U.S. Navy, under the direction of popular art impressionist Everett L. Warner. 'Still Life' 1920 oil/panel

A very elegant and peaceful interior scend by Austrian artist Carl Moll ((1861-1945), 'White Interior' 1905. oil/canvas

DAILY ART QUOTE! "Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part that schools cannot recognize." James Joyce Image by Lisa Rock, “Chicory at Sibley Volcanic Preserve" 2023 Oil on canvas over panel

Color and movement to this tight composition of four seated young woman, by Russian artist Abram Arkhipov (1862-1930). Arkhipov carried the exterior light onto the figures to give them a youthful energy and focus.

Jozsef Rippl-Ronai (1861-1927), pastel 'A Park at Night' (c.1892), represents a nocturnal landscape. Only a scattered few lights suggest the presence of buildings, life and possibly a road. In the foreground, trees look like a photographic negatives, a bit foreboding.

A painting of atmosphere, solitude and possible longing, by the singular female in foreground. This work, “Calm Sea, Nocturne” is by Jakub Schikaneder (1855-1924), a Czech painter and art professor. His work was known for realism of Romanticism themes.

Charles Courtney Curran (1861-1942) an American impressionist painter, best known for his canvases depicting women in various settings. He was also known for his teaching at the Cragsmoor Art Colony in Ulster County, New York.