Full Many a Glorious Morning Have I Seen

Full Many a Glorious Morning Have I Seen
Copyright 2013 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
18" x 24"
Prints available on Fine Art America

SONNET 33 

Full many a glorious morning have I seen

Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye,

Kissing with golden face the meadows green,

Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy;

Anon permit the basest clouds to ride

With ugly rack on his celestial face,

And from the forlorn world his visage hide,

Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace:

Even so my sun one early morn did shine

With all triumphant splendor on my brow;

But out, alack! he was but one hour mine,

The region cloud hath mask'd him from me now.

Yet him for this my love no whit disdaineth;

Suns of the world may stain when heaven's sun staineth.

-Shakespeare

Friday Feature: Maxfield Parrish

Reveries
Maxfield Parrish

With painstaking attention to detail Maxfield Parrish created paintings that both realistically portray the human form and landscape AND surreally create scenes of fantasy.  Yet these are not the uncomfortable surrealistic scenes of Salvador Dali or Magritte.  Parish's world is soft and reflects only the gentle side of our experiences.  Using art as a means of calling attention to the beautiful side of creation.

Princess Parizade Bringing Home the Singing Tree
Maxfield Parrish

The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you.  To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, or air and space.

-Maxfield Parrish

Heart

Heart
Copyright 2013 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
16" x 20"

My crown is in my heart, not on my head;

not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen:

my crown is called content,

a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.

-Shakespeare

Measure for Measure

Measure for Measure
Copyright 2013 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
18" x 24"

What's mine is yours and what is yours is mine.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

-Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

Friday Feature: Edmund Dulac

The Little Mermaid by Edmund Dulac

I worship this amazing illustrator, Edmund Dulac.  Sweeping arches of wind and rain bring each piece to compositional perfection.  My favorite is his depictions of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid."

Love and Beauty by Edmund Dulac

To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.

-Hans Christian Andersen

Dulac

I only appear to be dead.

-Hans Christian Andersen

Sunrise

Sunrise
Copyright 2013 Addie Hirschten
Acrylic on Canvas

The grand show is eternal.

It is always sunrise somewhere;

the dew is never dried at once;

a shower is forever falling;

vapor is ever rising.

-John Muir

Saint Therese of Lisieux

Saint Therese of Lisieux
Copyright 2013 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
30" x 15"

This painting depicts Saint Therese as I imagine her... alone in her room as she sits writing "The Story of a Soul."  Despite her illness her youthful optimism perseveres.  It is dark and dismal yet light is streaming through the window like a beacon of hope.

Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love?

Great deeds are forbidden me.

The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love.

-Saint Therese of Lisieux

Friday Feature: Arthur Rackham

Alice in Wonderland by Arthur Rackham

Dark and mysterious the artwork of Arthur Rackham had a profound influence on book illustration at the turn of the 20th century.  I especially love how he mixed realism with an ethereal mysticism transporting the viewer to the world of fantasy.  Wolves bare their teeth and bodies are floated off into the air... as if each character is not a solid structure but the spirit of an emotional idea.  Check out his dynamic renditions of "Alice in Wonderland" and "British Fairy Tales" if you favor creepy depictions of these classic tales.

Fairy from Peter Pan by Arthur Rackham

To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,

To gain all while you give,

To roam the roads of lands remote,

To travel is to live.

-Hans Christian Andersen

Wolf Hunt by Arthur Rackham

Hoosier Women Artists

6PM on the Broad Ripple Canal
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
16" x 20"
Prints available on Fine Art America

I am happy to announce that this landscape painting depicting the Broad Ripple Canal was selected to hang in the Lieutenant Governor's office in the Indiana State House for the next year!  Lt. Governor Ellsperman selected this piece as part of the Hoosier Women Artists Program.  

So it is official... I am a Hoosier!

(If my degree from IU didn't tip the scales surely this does.)

Hirschten and Lt. Governor Ellsperman at the Indiana State House

The Immaculate Heart of Mary

The Immaculate Heart of Mary
Copyright 2013 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
15" x 30"

His mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

-Luke 2:51

Come One, Come All!



Brigid
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
16" x 20"
Prints available on Fine Art America



This Saturday night April 6th, 2012 at the Harrison Art Center in Indianapolis we, the friends of Jude Odell, are hosting a benefit party in her honor!  There will be live music, drinks, food.  I have donated the painting above to be part of the art auction. 

Find out more about it on the facebook event page:
Benefit Party at the Harrison Art Center.

When you start a painting, it is something outside you.
At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.
-Fernando Botero

Our Bodies are our Gardens

Our Bodies are our Gardens
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
16" x 20"

Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.

-Shakespeare, Othello