#Gustav Caillebotte

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Caillebotte--Painter of Men. If in Paris this autumn, don't miss it.

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Gustave Caillebotte

Portrait de Monsieur R. (Reyre)

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Rooftops in the Snow (Snow Effect), Gustave Caillebotte, 1878

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Gustave Caillebotte - The Plain of Gennevilliers from the Hills of Argenteuil (1888)

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-The Parquet Planers-

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Caillebotte's Floor Scrapers, one of my favorite paintings on the planet. When I look at it I think, I see the same beauty he saw. I didn't even know it was here. In person it's even better -- luminous and grey at the same time.

[ID: a painting of three men refinishing a wooden floor; they are kneeling, shirtless, and the gleam of their skin matches the floor's alternating matte and shine. Behind them is a window that lights them; to the right is a bottle of wine for breaks.]

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Paris Street; Rainy Day - Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848–1894)

The Art Institute of Chicago

photo: David Castenson

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Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848-1894), Paysage près de Trouville [Landscape near Trouville], 1881. Oil on canvas, 23 ³/₄ x 28 ³/₄ in.

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Word List: Flower

beautiful words with "flower" to plant in your next poem/story

Blanketflower - gaillardia—i.e., any of a genus (Gaillardia) of American composite herbs with showy flower heads

Cuckooflower - a bitter cress (Cardamine pratensis) of Eurasia and North America; ragged robin (i.e., a perennial herb, Lychnis flos-cuculi, of the pink family cultivated for its pink flowers with narrow-lobed petals)

Dayflower - any of a genus (Commelina) of herbs of the spiderwort family having one petal smaller than the other two

Flowerage - a flowering process, state, or condition

Floweriness - of, relating to, or resembling flowers; marked by or given to rhetorical elegance

Foamflower - a spring-flowering herb (Tiarella cordifolia) of eastern North America that has white flowers with long stamens and no stem leaves; also called: false miterwort

Gillyflower - carnation (i.e., a plant of any of numerous often cultivated and usually double-flowered varieties or subspecies of an Old World pink, Dianthus caryophyllus, found in many color variations; also: a moderate red; archaic: the variable color of human flesh)

Globeflower - any of a genus (Trollius) of plants of the buttercup family usually with globose yellow or orange flowers

Nonflowering - producing no flowers; specifically: lacking a flowering stage in the life cycle

Pasqueflower - any of several anemones with palmately compound leaves and large usually white or purple early spring flowers

Passionflower - any of a genus (Passiflora) of chiefly tropical woody tendriled climbing vines or erect herbs with usually showy flowers and pulpy often edible berries

Satinflower - honesty; blue-eyed grass; common chickweed; flannelflower; a plant or flower of the genus Godetia

Strawflower - any of several plants having everlasting flowers

Twinflower - a prostrate subshrub (Linnaea borealis) of the honeysuckle family that is found in cool regions of the northern hemisphere and has fragrant usually pink flowers

Waxflower - a climbing plant (Stephanotis floribunda) of Madagascar often cultivated in the greenhouse for its fragrant white flowers; an epiphytic tree (Clusia insignis) of British Guiana; indian pipe; spotted wintergreen

If any of these words make their way into your next poem/story, please tag me, or leave a link in the replies. I would love to read them!

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duck team i snuck into my art class assignment! which is why they are just in the yerres river for no reason

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A Balcony in Paris painted by Gustave Caillebotte (1848 - 1894)

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Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848-1894), "Homme au balcon," 1880.

My four years of high-school French and two years of university French lead me to translate 'Caillebotte' as 'Quail Boot'; my French-to-English dictionary says it means 'curd'. I'm confused. But I suppose that I'd rather be called 'Quail Boot' than 'Curd'. It's more whimsical.

"The Beard on the Balcony"--title of my next Bear murder mystery, set in fin-de-siecle Paris, and with only a hint of smuttiness, so as to make it acceptable for a general audience. I want big royalties.

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‘Man Drying his Leg’ by Gustave Caillebotte, c. 1884.

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Caillebotte in his greenhouse

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Gustave Caillebotte - L'Yerres, pluie (1875)

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-Man at the Window-