“With the outbreak of World War I, Miller returned to the United States, staying for a short time in California, before finally settling in Provincetown, Massachusetts in 1917. There he continued his practice of setting his models in studio-designed sunrooms. Seating his models in front of the windows and doors of his studio, opening to…
Author: At Sunnyside - Where Truth and Beauty Meet
Sunnyside was born many years ago, the name of my fictional home for orphaned children and animals in a story for Mrs. Watson’s eighth grade writing class. A medical degree and six biologic homeschooled children later, Sunnyside became the name of my classical education website, Sunnyside Classical Christian School. Now entering a new phase of life, I plan to rest and reflect on all things true and beautiful here At Sunnyside.
Who is the lovely woman pictured above? Meet my kindred spirit, Euphemia White Van Rensselear in my favorite portrait painted by George Healy in 1842
(On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 75)
Joaquin Sorolla: Valenciana a la reja
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Mozart: Sinfonia concertante, KV 364
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A Little Muhlig, A Little Mahler
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Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major, BWV 1049
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Mignarda: Auld Lang Syne
“Auld lang syne is well known as a song of celebration at the turn of the new year, commemorating the year past. The poem was written by Robert Burns in 1788, and the melody is a traditional Scots tune (Roud 6294). Robert Burns sent a copy of the original song to the British Museum with…
Vincent Van Gogh: The Starry Night
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Danish String Quartet: Shine You No More
Hi, blog friends, My apologies for my unplanned absence. My posts are scheduled a year in advance, so they will keep coming even though I am unable to respond to your generous comments and read your lovely posts at present. As Arnold said, “I’ll be back.” ❤️ Kupka explained the correlation between vision and music:…
Krystian Zimerman: Piano Concerto No. 5 (Beethoven)
“The boldly checked taffeta skirt in the painting echoes one of Miller’s early successes in the genre—Chinese Statuette, ca. 1909-1910 (The Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri), a Sargentesque portrait of his wife clad in the same skirt (rendered slightly darker). The repeated use of this skirt, which appears in several other paintings over…
Lucas Jussen: Notturno for piano trio (Schubert)
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Trio Medici: Notturno D897 (Schubert)
Kupka’s driving passion was to investigate the phenomena of vision…Kupka’s experiments in the field of perception centered around how a fleeting image could nevertheless create a sense of emotion within the consciousness:“The vertical is the solemn spinal column of life, the central axis of all constructions. Have you ever experienced the sensation of a vertical…
Voices of Music: Violin Concerto in D Major (Vivaldi)
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What Child Is This?
Peace on Earth ✝️ ~Sunnyside
John Foley: Winter Cold Night
Winter Cold Night by John Foley, S.J. Dark, dark, the winter cold night, lu-lee-lay.Hope is hard to come by, lu-lee-lay.Hard, hard the journey tonight, lu-lee-lay.Star, guide, hope, hide our poor, winter cold night.And on Earth Peace, Goodwill among men.Lean, lean, the livin’ tonight, lu-lee-lay.Star seems darker sometimes, lu-lee-lay.Unto you is born this day a Savior.Pain,…
Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece I
“The outer wings of the Isenheim Altarpiece were opened for important festivals of the liturgical year, particular those in honour of the Virgin Mary. Thus are revealed four scenes: the left wing represents the Annunciation during which the archangel Gabriel comes to announce to Mary that she will give birth to Jesus, the son of…
Tchaikovsky: Russian Dance from Swan Lake
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Giotto: Arena Chapel, Part I
O come, O come, Emmanuel O come, O come, Emmanuel And ransom captive Israel That mourns in lonely exile here Until the Son of God appear Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel Shall come to thee, O Israel. O come, Thou Rod of Jesse, free Thine own from Satan’s tyranny From depths of Hell Thy people save And…
Winter in 200 Great Paintings
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Dan Fogelberg: In the Bleak Midwinter
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Hugo van der Goes: The Adoration of the Kings, Monforte Altar
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Casting Crowns: I Heard The Bells on Christmas Day
“In the late 1860s, Monet started to extend the need to capture sensations and render “the effect” to all transitory, even fleeting states of nature. Taking Pissarro, Renoir and Sisley with him, Monet tackled the great challenge of a snow-covered landscape, which Courbet had grandly explored with great success not long before. Toning down Courbet’s…
Pentatonix: My Heart With You
“An aspect of Bonnard’s art that grew in importance after 1900 was his Impressionist inheritance and its influence is very evident in the present work. In a departure from his earlier Nabi preference for flat pattern, unbroken fields of color and compositions freed from atmospheric effects, the present work makes transient light and modulated color…
Frantisek Kupka: Pioneer of Abstraction
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Etienne de Lavaulx: Il est né le divin Enfant
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Maurice Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte
“The pavane… is a slow processional dance common in Europe during the 16th century (Renaissance).” READ MORE; wikiwand “After a performance by Charles Oulmont, Ravel mentioned to him that the piece was called “Pavane for a dead princess”, not “dead pavane for a princess”. When asked by the composer-conductor Manoah Leide-Tedesco how he arrived at…
Mari Samuelson: Winter (Vivaldi)
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Classic Hymns: Joy to the World
“Norman Rockwell executed the present work as a preparatory study for Freedom of Worship, one of the four paintings that comprise his iconic Four Freedoms series. Inspired by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1941 State of the Union address, in which he outlined four essential human rights, Rockwell sought to capture the ideas of freedom from want,…
Robert Lewis Reid: The Mirror
“American Impressionism emerged in the late 1880s when a generation of American artists studied abroad to absorb the new palette and compositions that were modernizing painting in France. Landscapes and domestic scenes by these American Impressionists are as wonderfully fresh and sparkling as those by their more familiar French counterparts. These artists, attracted to the…
William Nicholson : Double Anemones (1921)
“Here Nicholson employs an almost square format, which is unusual for him, and the rich, dark background of his pre-war still lifes makes a return. The scarlet, purple, pink and white anemones in a simple white mug with painted decoration are standing on a thin white cloth, partially covering a plain wooden table. Silver and…
Kyuhee Park: Sonata in D major, K.178 (Scarlatti)
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At Sunnyside - Where Truth and Beauty Meet 