Who Is Umberto Boccioni? Umberto Boccioni was an influential Italian painter and sculptor who helped shape the revolutionary aesthetic of the Futurism movement despite his death at the age of thirty-three during WW1. The three women in this portrait are Boccioni’s mother, sister, and long time lover. Read More Umberto Boccioni at wikiwand See More…
Month: August 2022
Grieg: Holberg Suite by Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
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David Popper: Requiem for three cellos and piano
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Alleluia: Restless Heart
by Renee Yann, RSM, at Lavish Mercy Prose: from Augustine’s autobiography about his mother Monica: And now you stretched forth your hand from aboveand drew up my soul out of that profound darknessbecause my mother, your faithful one,wept to you on my behalf more than mothersare accustomed to weepfor the bodily deaths of their children….
Hauser: La Califfa
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Umberto Boccioni: The Street Pavers (1914)
Boccioni was a member of the Futurists, a group of Italian artists who announced their existence in 1909 with a manifesto published on the front page of the French paper, Le Figaro. The group called for the abandonment of the past in favor of modern life and aimed to represent the metropolis in “multicolored and…
Week 29: Tulip, by Sunnyside
This is another beginner tutorial at Anna Mason’s membership site. I will definitely try this one again after lots of practice on how to do those fine directional marks. She makes it look easy…but, of course, it is not! Thanks for Visiting 🙂 ~Sunnyside
Gautier Capuçon: Gabriel’s Oboe
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József Rippl-Rónai: Intérieur d’un salon parisien
József Rippl-Rónai (23 May 1861 – 25 November 1927) was a Hungarian painter who first introduced modern artistic movements in the Hungarian art. Click for Enlarged Detail Slideshow best viewed At Sunnyside Read More József Rippl-Rónai at wikiwand See More József Rippl-Rónai At Sunnyside József Rippl-Rónai at wikimedia József Rippl-Rónai at Fine Arts in Hungary…
Chopin: Nocturne Op. 9 No. 1
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Week 28: Viola, by Sunnyside
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Eva Gonzalès, The French Impressionist
by jonathan5485 at my daily art display “One of my favourite paintings by Eva Gonzalès was her early work entitled Le Moineau (The Sparrow). The teenage model for this painting was the artist’s sister Jeanne. Jeanne Gonzalès appeared in over twenty of Eva’s works. It is a portrait of great elegance. It is a depiction…
Habiballah of Sava: Language of the Birds
“Language of the Birds” – 12th Century Language of the Birds (Persian: منطق الطیر, Manṭiq-uṭ-Ṭayr, also known as مقامات الطیور Maqāmāt-uṭ-Ṭuyūr; 1177), is a mystical twelfth century Persian literary masterpiece by poet Farid ud-Din Attarin, commonly known as Attar of Nishapur. The poem title, which is in Arabic, is taken directly from the Qur’an, 27:16,…
André Brasilier: Avant la course (1962)
Blending abstraction and expressionism, André Brasilier’s lyrical, dreamlike paintings explore an intimate communion with nature. Horses—described by Brasilier as “a superb creation…charged with symbolism, strength, dynamism and beauty”—feature prominently, their elegant forms cantering through serene seascapes, chilly winter woods and brilliant sunsets. Sotheby’s Learn More See More Thanks for Visiting 🙂 ~Sunnyside
Vincent van Gogh Meets Dr. Who
This is a perfectly imagined and executed scene. Post best viewed At Sunnyside. Image Credit: Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Self-portrait, (1889). Paris, Orsay. by jean louis mazieres, Via Flickr: (Source: https://www.flickr.com/). Thanks for Visiting 🙂 ~Sunnyside
Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in A Minor RV 356
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John Singer Sargent: Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
The title comes from the song ‘The Wreath’, by the eighteenth-century composer of operas Joseph Mazzinghi, which was popular in the 1880s. Sargent and his circle frequently sang around the piano at Broadway. The refrain of the song asks the question ‘Have you seen my Flora pass this way?’ to which the answer is ‘Carnation,…
Mariam Batsashvili: Concerto in D minor 974
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Hauser & Trotovsek: Erbarme Dich, Mein Gott (Bach)
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John Duncan Fergusson: On the Road to the Isles (1928)
Click For Enlarged Detail Slideshow best viewed At Sunnyside Details John Duncan Fergusson (1874-1961) On the Road to the Isles signed and dated ‘J.D. FERGUSSON./1928’ (on the reverse), signed again and inscribed ‘THE ROAD TO THE ISLES,/J.D. FERGUSSON’ (on the artist’s label attached to the stretcher) oil on canvas 22 x 24 in. (55.9 x…
Pierre Bonnard: The Croquet Game (1892)
The Game of Croquet is one of the first works by Pierre Bonnard, one of the founders of the Nabi group in 1888. It was exhibited in 1892 at the Salon des Indépendants under the title Twilight. The painting shows the garden of the family home, at Le Grand-Lemps, in Isère…The subject of the painting…
Edgar Degas: The Four Ballerinas in Blue (c1897)
Click for Enlarged Detail Slideshow best viewed At Sunnyside Read More Italian wikiwand “Ballerine dietro le quinte“ Google English translation of the Italian wikipedia page Note I found several different names for this painting on various websites. Thanks for Visiting 🙂 ~Sunnyside
Batsashvili and O’Keeffe: Serenade and Reflection
“Painted circa 1921-22, Georgia O’Keeffe’s Lake George Reflection embodies the contradictions inherent in the artist’s best work which came to define her career and cement her legacy as one of the most enduring and intriguing figures in 20th-century American Art. Lake George Reflection, the most ambitious in scale of her works from the 1920s,is a…
Georg Friedrich Händel: Concerto Grosso Op. 3, no. 2
Georg Friedrich Händel, Concerto Grosso Op. 3, no. 2
with Video of Maria Sibylla Merian artwork
Tamara Natalie Madden: “Out of Many, One People”
Though Tamara Natalie Madden was born in Kingston, Jamaica, she spent her teenage years in Madison, Wisconsin. Born with dark skin to a mother with light skin, Ms. Madden observed endemic racist behavior from people of color, both in Jamaica and in the United States – based solely on the degree of darkness of skin;…
Edgar Degas: Danseuse au tutu vert (c1887)
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Isobel Lilian Gloag: Four Corners to my Bed
‘Four corners to my bed Four angels round my head Matthew, Mark, Luke & John Bless the bed that I lie on’ What Does This Mean? James Greig explains this rhyme in his essay “Isobel Lilian Gloag and Her Work“, published in The Magazine of Art, Volume 26 in 1902: ” [This] is a…
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