Rick Stevens: In the Company of Trees Exhibition at Kay Contemporary Art Santa Fe, New Mexico October 4-21, 2024 “My work goes quite representational to quite abstract. This stylistic range provides me opportunity to approach it from a variety of angles. Having an abstract painter’s eye when I’m painting landscapes helps in maintaining a freedom…
Month: September 2024
Wendell Berry: The Peace of Wild Things
The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and…
Camille Pissarro: Automne à Eragny
One of the most prominent avant-garde painters of his generation, Pissarro had achieved enormous success as both an Impressionist and a Neo-Impressionist painter. Adjusting certain elements from his classic Impressionist period of the 1870s, and combining them with characteristics of his Neo-Impressionist style of the 1880s, in the early 1890s Pissarro began developing a fresh…
Sérusier and Scarlatti – With Yuja Wang
Hat Tip Many thanks to bluebird of bitterness for introducing me to this video in the post Happy birthday, Domenico. Hear More Domenico Scarlatti At Sunnyside Yuja Wang At Sunnyside Read More The Nabis at ArtStory Les Nabis on Wikiwand Les Nabis at Google Arts and Culture Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History Paul Sérusier at…
Edvard Munch: The Sick Child
“The Sick Child is one of Munch’s earliest works, considered by the artist “a breakthrough” for setting the tone for his early career in which death, loss, anxiety, madness, and the preoccupations of a troubled soul were his chief subject matter. Devoted to his deceased sister, Johanne Sophie, the painting depicts the bedridden fifteen-year-old with…
Voices of Music: Vivaldi’s ‘Autumn’
Hear More Vivaldi At Sunnyside Voices of Music At Sunnyside See More Stepan Kolesnikov At Sunnyside Stepan Fedorovich Kolesnikov at MutualArt Stepan Feodorovich Kolesnikov | Artnet Read More Stepan Kolesnikov at Wikiwand Stepan Kolesnikov at Lines and Colors Thanks for Visiting 🌻 ~Sunnyside
Pieter Bruegel and the First Modern Landscape
The First Modern Landscape The Metropolitan Museum of Art calls this painting a “watershed in the history of Western art”[1] and the “first modern landscape”.[6]. Because of the new humanist lens through which Pieter Bruegel the Elder viewed his world, landscape painting was no longer limited to backgrounds for mythological or religious illustrations. Who Was…
Reuven Rubin: Galloping Horses
“From the late 1950’s, running horses became a favorite subject of Rubin. Sarah Wilkinson writes that that the artist was inspired by the Bedouin horsemen galloping in the desert and these paintings were different than most of the artist’s works. “They are not tranquil in spirit, but filled with turbulence, as if the horses, now…
Nati Dreddd: Autumn
Hear More Nati Dreddd At Sunnyside See More Cedric Morris At Sunnyside Cedric Morris at ArtUK Cedric Morris at Tate Cedric Morris at Artnet Cedric Morris at Christie’s Read More Cedric Morris at wikiwand Thanks for Visiting 🌻 ~Sunnyside
James Taylor: Country Road
“Chemin de Pontoise, Auvers-sur-Oise depicts a sunny day in Pontoise, a bustling market town about twenty-five miles northwest of Paris where Pissarro lived in 1866-1868 and again from 1872-1882. The canvas was painted in 1876, at the apex of Pissarro’s career as an Impressionist landscape painter. Christopher Lloyd and Anne Distel have described Pissarro’s work…
Léon-Augustin Lhermitte: The Little Goose Girl of Mézy
The Little Goose Girl of Mézy is Léon Lhermitte’s most important single-figure painting, a work that forthrightly declares its modernity in the directness of the young goose girl’s interaction with the viewer and in the slashing knife and brushwork that so tangibly conveys the stubbled grain field on which she stands…With her small bundle of…
Claude Monet: Cabin of the Customs Watch
See More Claude Monet At Sunnyside Monet’s Water Lilies At Sunnyside Claude Monet at Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris List of Paintings by Claude Monet at wikiwand Works by Claude Monet at Museum Barberini Claude Monet at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Claude Monet at National Gallery of Art Claude Monet at Art Institute of Chicago…
Daniil Trifonov: Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4
Hear More Daniil Trifonov At Sunnyside Beethoven At Sunnyside See More Le Quoc Loc at Christie’s Thanks for Visiting 🌻 ~Sunnyside
Diego Rivera: Pepenadora
“It’s executed in a technique that Rivera referred to as “temple al óleo” or oil painting with tempera in which tempera is used as a binding substance for the oil pigments creating a looseness and transparency similar to the effects of his fresco murals as well as a visual quality reminiscent of the great medieval…
Paul Klee: Feier und Untergang
“The present painting is part of a group of rhythmic, wooded landscapes that Klee made in 1920, the year after he first began working in oil….The dominant red and brown tonalities reflect the colors of the fall foliage, while the title of the painting–Feier und Untergang (Celebration and Decline)–evokes the bounty of the harvest followed…
Alfred Munnings: A Huntsman Riding Through a Thicket
“Living at Church Farm in Swainsthorpe from around 1903 until 1911, Munnings often rode with the Norwich Staghounds: ‘Hunting became a part of my life, and I saw many things on those days: bright winter sunlight on clipped horses and scarlet coats; on bare trees; stacks; on farmhouse gables; the riding out after a slight…
Georgia O’Keeffe: Pattern of Leaves
Hear More Watch full concert At Sunnyside Petrit Ceku At Sunnyside Bach At Sunnyside Learn More Georgia O’Keeffe at The Art Story See More Georgia O’Keeffe At Sunnyside Georgia O’Keeffe at Milwaukee Art Museum Art and Artists: Georgia O’Keeffe – part 3 Georgia O’Keeffe at Art Institute of Chicago Georgia O’Keeffe paintings at Georgia O’Keeffe…
Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece III
Hear More Life in 3D At Sunnyside Read More Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece at wikiwand Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece at Smarthistory Matthias Grünewald at wikiwand See More Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece at Unterlinden Museum Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece at wikimedia References Dr. Sally Hickson, “Grünewald, Isenheim Altarpiece,” in Smarthistory, April 27, 2023, accessed June 24, 2023, https://smarthistory.org/grunewald-isenheim-altarpiece/. Happy Sunday…
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