John Steiner hosts the Cellpic Sunday challenge and invites you to share your cell photos only. I took all these photos with my iPhone 12 Mini and I hope without a flash. I did get called on the carpet because my flash went off. No flash fired in any of the pictures below.
Van Gogh Immersive Event
My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.
Vincent van Gogh
On Thursday my husband and I attended this magnificent event escaping the 113-degree outdoor temperature in Scottsdale, AZ. I asked if I could post the pictures and the docent said I could, and to please get the word out about the show. Click to get tickets to the Scottsdale/Phoenix event.
The slide show extravaganza with classical music and common sounds that would be appropriate to the paintings lasts about an hour.
There are two showrooms, one with a few seats, and the other with people sitting on the floor. We were super glad when the attendant showed us to the room with chairs. The same show was displayed in both rooms on all four walls. Similar views show on all four walls but as you can see, they are not identical.
I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say ‘he feels deeply, he feels tenderly.’
Vincent van Gogh
The photographs fade in and out and so they don’t completely resemble the painting from which they originate. The subjects might move or just morph from one image into another in time to the music.
Vince and I particularly enjoyed the portraits some of which originated from other larger pieces and were singled out for notice.
You can’t be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.
Vincent van Gogh
Photography was encouraged, but your timing had to be quick before the picture started to fade and morph into another scene. There was little time to be mindful of what you took. He who hesitated lost the shot.
I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
Vincent van Gogh
Clarity was not just a matter of moving your camera or having bad eyesight. Van Gogh earned a reputation for being one of the greatest Post-Impressionists and his work powerfully influenced the current of Expressionism in modern art.
If you wonder what Post Impressionistic art is, the impressionistic artists were romantic and used a lot of color except for blacks and browns. Subjects were idealistic. Realist and naturalistic artists tried to make their paintings appear more true to life as we see them. Beginning around 1880, artists Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Cézanne reacted against realism and naturalism. These post-impressionist artists explored color, line, form, and the emotional response of the artist.
FOTD 29 Sunflower and Dahlias
For FOTD today in keeping with Cell Pic Sunday, I am including three more beautiful flowers from our Mortimer Farms experience when we went with Terri Webster Schrandt and her husband.
This month, since TreeSquares is over, I decided to participate in Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge – (FOTD). Like Becky B, Cee offers us the freedom to post every day or when we feel like it. I made the mistake of classifying my trees as flowers for about half the month last month. So this month – no trees. (maybe). Cee’s FOTD challenge accepts:
- Single flowers
- Buds
- Multiple flowers
- Bouquet
- Flower fields
- Wildflowers
- Tree or bush blossoms
- Autumn leaves
- Spring leaves
- Decorative Cabbage
- Berries
Upcoming
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Marsha Ingrao - Always Write 
24 responses to “Cell Pic Sunday: Immersive Van Gogh Event in Scottsdale, AZ”
I’m not much of an art fan, but this event look slike it would be worth going to. we did get a chance to visit the van gogh museum in Amseterdam, and I have to admit I enjoyed walking around and seeing his art work and learning about him…
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It’s amazing he’s become so popular now that he’s gone. Maybe my blog will burn up the screen after I’m gone. What do you think?
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just make sure you have a good will 🙂
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LOL Just make sure I have heirs that want my masterpiece! 🙂 LOL
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just dangle the possibility of some money in front of them…
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LOL, I’d better get busy! More blogging!
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slow and steady wins the race…:)
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Wow! Interesting show. I am surprised they allowed photographs, but glad they did. Nice work!
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I felt kind of guilty, but I asked several people, and everyone else was doing it, so Vince and I took a ton of pictures.
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Beautiful dahlias 😀 😀
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We have tickets to the event in San Diego in January. Your pictures make me even more excited to attend!
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I’m so glad, Janis. You will love it, I guarantee. We sat through about one and a half times. Even so when I look at Pat’s video, much of it looks different. I’m wondering if they have a different show for each city.
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I seldom used my cell phone camera but enjoyed looking at your pictures.
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The camera in our phones is pretty good. I’d say even better than my old Canon Rebel xti. The thing is that it is always handy. You couldn’t go in there with a camera, I don’t think.
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I didn’t mean about the quality of your images, they were beautiful, it was the prompt you followed that pictures only from cell phones were wanted unless I misunderstood. As in Cellpic Sunday!
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Oh, yes, it is limited to cell phone pictures. I misunderstood, too. I like having both.
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The Van Gogh exhibit is popular in Vancouver right now. I am seeing photos from others and yours are great, Marsha! I do wonder whether places watch for “flash.” We got called on this once in an aquarium type of feature. No flash on, yet the way the photo bounced off the glass. Thank you for sharing a fascinating and beautiful post. I appreciate the historical information. (An aside: I am not sure whether I am ending in a spam folder – since I did not see my comment on your ‘friendship’ post – It happens occasionally – I realize you moderate)🙂
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I didn’t see it Erica, but I do moderate my spam, just not daily. I’ll go check right now.
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It wasn’t in spam. One thing that happens once in a while is when I get an overload of comments, and some of the earliest comments get lost and when you come to the end of your comments, the early ones are still unseen. I’ll go check the post itself.
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No problem, Marsha, it happens to me, too, and glitchy. Thank you for sharing a gorgeous and interesting post!
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Thanks, Erika.
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Interesting read.
Love the concept.
Beautiful captures and impressionist style.
Thank you Marsha.
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Thanks, Philo. I hope you get a chance to experience it, if it interests you. It’s well worth the hour or two you spend.
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Thank you Marsha.
I wish and pray I get an opportunity to visit.
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