“The present landscape shows a view of the garden of “Ma Roulotte”, the artist’s house in Normandy, a garden that grew wild in a woodland profusion. In the foreground there is a winding path with a cat, humorously indicating the scale of the tall trees. In the background, glimpsed through the foliage, is the river,…
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)
Adrien Jean Le Mayeur de Merprès: Balinese Maidens in a Garden
“Set in the warm seclusion of the artist’s picturesque home, Le Mayeur reveals his innate ingenuity and practiced familiarity with the vivid harmony of beauty, sunlight and colour. Balinese Maidens in the Garden is a captivating snapshot of the languorous warmth that imbued every corner of the tropical paradise that Le Mayeur created; as three…
Edward Burne-Jones: The Beguiling of Merlin
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E. Martin Hennings: Rabbit Hunt
“Hennings was drawn to both the landscape and the people of the Taos area. The bright sunlight of New Mexico inspired his colorful palette. He commented in his later years, “I have been working in Taos many years and I think that should prove that I like it here; the country, the mountains with their…
Leonardo da Vinci: Mona Lisa
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Lhermitte: Master of Charcoal and Pastel
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Tomaso Albinoni: Oboe & Violin Concerto
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Frederick Carl Frieseke: The Rose Peignoir
“In the 1890s and the early decades of the twentieth century, American artists such as Mary Cassatt, Theodore Robinson, Childe Hassam, and Frederick Frieseke were inspired by French Impressionism, and began presenting their subjects in bright sunlight, utilizing broken, staccato brushwork and vivid hues. Frieseke traveled to France as early as 1898, and later settled…
Odilon Redon: Trees on Yellow Background
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Henri Martin: La Vallée du Lot, près de Saint-Cirq-Lapopie
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Kyuhee Park: Flowers Will Bloom
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Romeo Tabuena: Guitar and Fruit
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Mary Cassatt: On a Balcony
“During Mary Cassatt’s early Impressionist period, she frequently focused on the activities of middle-class women in society—at the theater or taking tea, for example. At first glance, the arresting painting ‘On a Balcony’, which was shown in the 1880 Impressionist exhibition, appears to depict a woman in a public setting. However, the blue rail of…
Emil Nolde: Flower Garden
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Joyeux Quatorze Juillet!
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Le Pho: Les tulipes rouges et noires
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Desandre & Davies Sing Handel
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Gautier Capucon: Thais Meditation
“Painted in 1876, Dans la prairie dates from the time that Claude Monet spent in Argenteuil, a pool of rural calm and beauty within easy reach of Paris. The picture is filled with colour, with flowers captured in darting brushstrokes that lend the work a deliberately hazy vivacity. And dominating the composition, despite the fact that she…
Zoltán Kocsis: Deux Arabesques (Debussy)
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Ray Charles: America the Beautiful
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Robert Lewis Reid: The Trio
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Dorothea Sharp: Still Life of Late Summer Flowers
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Jean-Philippe Rameau: Les Trois Mains
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Henri Fantin-Latour: Roses and Lilies
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Camille Pissarro: Rue de l’Epicerie, Rouen
“By the time of Pissarro’s fourth visit to Rouen in 1898, he was “already familiar with the motifs there.”… On August 19, he wrote to his son Lucien: “Yesterday I found an excellent place from which I can paint the rue de l’Epicerie and even the market, a really interesting one, which takes place every…
Nguyen Phan Chanh: Catching Crabs
“Painting on silk is considered to be a traditionally Chinese art form, although Chanh argued it ‘expressed the national (Vietnamese) character to the highest degree’ and goes on to talk about the enthusiastic reception given to his and other artists in their exhibition in Hanoi, 1954-1955, where opinion stated that the paintings were ‘neither Chinese,…
Zhang Daqian: Peony Scroll
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Claude Monet: Woman with a Parasol
“Woman with a Parasol was painted outdoors, probably in a single session of several hours’ duration. The artist intended the work to convey the feeling of a casual family outing rather than a formal portrait, and used pose and placement to suggest that his wife and son interrupted their stroll while he captured their likenesses….
Eva Cassidy: Imagine
LyricsImagine there’s no heavenIt’s easy if you tryNo hell below usAbove us only skyImagine all the people living for todayImagine there’s no countriesIt isn’t hard to doNothing to kill or die forAnd no religion tooImagine all the people living life in peace, youYou may say I’m a dreamerBut I’m not the only oneI hope some…
Franz Marc: Broken Forms
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At Sunnyside - Where Truth and Beauty Meet 