Multi-level housing

On the left: Part of an offbeat outdoor theater set for Theater het Amsterdam Bos's 2005 production of Anton Chekhov’s Ivanov, designed by Catherina Scholten. On the right: Manarola, one of the five villages that make up the picturesque Italian area known as Cinque Terre.

Thanks to Sue Haas for making this connection!

Theater het Amsterdam Bos for a 2005 production of the Anton Chekhov play Ivanov:

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Oh. . .

On the left: Notre-Dame, une fin d'après-midi (A Glimpse of Notre Dame in the Late Afternoon) 1902 by Henri Matisse; on the right: View of Notre-Dame (1914) by Henri Matisse.

In case you were wondering how that the painting from that last post (on the right above) might be of Notre Dame. . .

Henri and Richard

On the left: View of Notre-Dame (1914) by Henri Matisse; on the right: Untitled (Ocean Park), 1971, by Richard Diebenkorn.

Just recently came across this Matisse painting that I'd never seen before and thought how much it felt like Diebenkorn's Ocean Park series. Obviously, I'm not the only one who's thought that. (Poking about online, I found this:

"In the catalogue for her 1998 Diebenkorn retrospective, Jane Livingston points to how important Matisse’s View of Notre Dame (1914) was to Diebenkorn. He first saw it at just about the time he started the Ocean Park series: The Matisse made its first American appearance in Los Angeles in early 1966. By the end of 1967, the Ocean Park series was underway.)"

Art imitating life — or vice versa?

On the left: New Orleans street performer Uncle Louie crossing the street with his tiny stuffed dog, Lil Willie. On the right: a painting in a store window of Uncle Louie crossing the street with his tiny stuffed dog, Lil Willie. (Photo by Daniel Krone)