Bal du Moulin de la Galette :1876 painted by French impressionist artist Pierre Auguste Renoir. I just adore this painting. Looking at it brings back warm and fuzzy memories of my grandmother. This painting hung in her house at Hadley Wood NB: Obviously not the original: but her own interpretation in oil. The painting depicts a typical Sunday afternoon at Moulin de la Galette in the district of Montmartre in Paris. In the late19th century, working class Parisians
would dress up and spend time there dancing, drinking, and eating galettes (a large kind of cookie) into the evening.
His painting shows a luscious richness of form, a fluidity of brush stroke, and is adorned with flickering sparkles of light. Imagine tiny mirrors creating delicate fairy orbs of illumination, skipping amongst the dancing and animated folk. I love the choice of a blue hue palette....So cool and sublime. It is almost as if someone has captured the moment on film....Il est donc très belle!!! ( Dominic Dallin-Parrish, mon frère fabuleux, will feel the fuzziness also..I am sure!)
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