Guy St. Clair is the Series Editor for Knowledge Services, from Verlag Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin, the scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature. The series subject is knowledge services, the approach to managing intellectual capital that merges information management, knowledge management (KM), and learning, presenting and discussing new and innovative approaches to knowledge sharing in all fields of work. Guy also teaches in the Post-Baccalaureate Studies Program at Columbia University in the City of New York, where his course is Managing Information and Knowledge: Applied Knowledge Services. With Barrie Levy, he is the author of The Knowledge Services Handbook: A Guide for the Knowledge Strategist (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020). He is also the author of Knowledge Services: A Strategic Framework for the 21st Century Organization (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016) [Note: This is an Open Access title. Go here for the free PDF version of this book: https://bit.ly/3msI27V].
What a breath-taking treat to experience a Guy's-eye-tour through some very special Impressionists. I feel, after reading this essay, that I enter into Impressionist art more fully and look more deeply. What a gift Mr. Guy has given us! Aren't we lucky to know him!
A GuyFan
Thanks for sharing your impressions of the impressionists, Guy. This past Wednesday, I had the privilege of going to San Francisco's Asian Art Museum to visit the "Looking East: How Japan Inspired Monet, Van Gogh, and other Western Artists" (http://www.asianart.org/exhibitions_index/looking-east). I had never thought about any influence from Japan on the impressionists nor post-impressionist paintings and was delighted by what I learned. Art is a wonderful way to feed our souls. I'm grateful for the artists and those who have preserved their art so we can enjoy it now and into the future.
The paintings that you selected to comment on are among my favorites and reminded me of the times I have spent admiring them. Thank you for sharing.