Influenced by his contact with Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard during the 1890s, Henri Lebasque spent the better part of his career painting the quiet moments of family life. While Vuillard focused his intimiste vision on the domestic interior, a number of Bonnard’s Nabis paintings depict figures outside, and it is Bonnard who seems to…
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A Little Monet, A Little Mozart
“The shimmering light of mid-afternoon infuses Claude Monet’s painting of the old fortified coastal town of Antibes in the south of France. Monet traveled there in January of 1888 and was dazzled by the light and the striking scenery of the legendary Côte d’Azur (Azure Coast). However, he sometimes struggled with how to represent it…
Schubert: Impromptu F-minor D 935/1
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La Poétesse Meets Rachmaninoff
“The artist’s model for the present work was his wife, Marie Barbaroux. In the tradition of the great nineteenth-century Symbolists, Martin depicts her here in the guise of the poetess Clémence Isaure.” Sotheby’s “As a young man, fresh from his first success as a composer with the opera Aleko, Rachmaninoff was on his way to…
Paul Gauguin: Les Lavandières à Arles II
“Washerwomen in Arles was painted during Gauguin’s sojourn in the French town of Arles, where he had gone to work in the last quarter of 1888, summoned by Van Gogh, who was trying to assemble an artistic group… Outstanding features of this painting are the abstraction of its backgrounds, the impression of movement and photographic…
Aretha Franklin: Let It Be
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Sorolla, Stott, and Yo-Yo Ma
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Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings
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Beethoven, Blommers, and Höhenrieder
“To Blommers, children represented happiness and innocence, and he often captured children’s play in his pictures. He himself once said that although he saw children by the sea almost everyday, they offered him something new every time. (‘Ja, dat schilder ik graag, zulke kinderen aan zee. Ik zie ze bijna iedere dag zoo, en toch…
Pierre-Auguste Renoir: The Swing (1876)
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Mozart: Oboe Quartet in F-Major, KV 370
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Happy Birthday, Dear One!
You are loved and missed today and every day. ❤️❤️❤️ “A luminous bouquet of fresh dahlias and wild roses radiates against a dark green background to striking, almost abstract effect. An admirer of pyrotechnic displays throughout his life, Anglada Camarasa painted rhythmic, dynamically-extending patterns and bright colours that mimic the configurations of exploding fireworks.” READ…
Vincent’s “Eyes That Know the Darkness…”
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Francisco de Goya: The Third of May 1808
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Jakub Kuszlik Plays Chopin
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Scarlatti: The Keyboard Sonatas
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Van Gogh and Chopin Nocturnes
“Small though it is, Sprig of Flowering Almond Blossom in a Glass is like an eloquent proclamation of things to come–not just the arrival of spring, but of the imminent blossoming of van Gogh’s art… The principal image [is] an exquisitely observed almond branch whose every corrugation of twig and delicacy of petal has been…
William-Adolphe Bouguereau: Lullaby (1873)
“”Berceuse (Le coucher) was painted in the artist’s Paris studio in 1873 and holds a prominent place in this category of works which was particularly dear to the artist. In the present painting, a young Roman mother holds a naked infant and is gently moving him into his cradle. The central group is framed by…
2Cellos: Benedictus
In Douce quietude A…, Chu used free, uncontrolled brushstrokes to draw high, rugged mountains in the middle of the painting, creating a powerful image. He puts a lot of emphasis on the fluidity and movement of the brushstrokes. Flowing brushstrokes are developed from Chinese calligraphy and feel automated and spontaneous. Comparing this piece of work…
Paul Gauguin: The White Horse (1898)
“Gauguin painted this famous picture during his second stay in Tahiti. He liked to roam through the countryside and explore the mountains and forests of the interior. These out-of-the-way places swarmed with all sorts of wildlife and plants which enchanted him.But this scene is not taken from real life; it is an imaginary, synthetic vision…
Maria João Pires Plays Chopin
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Henrik Goldschmidt: Gabriel’s Oboe (Morricone)
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Odilon Redon: Le pavot noir (c1905)
“…Le pavot noir emerged during a key period of transition in Odilon Redon’s career, as he focused increasingly on floral still-lifes in his work, using their luscious blooms to explore the power of color. Echoing the natural arrangement of wild blossoms in a meadow, the bouquets favored by the artist embodied the essential beauty of…
Claude Monet: The Basin at Argenteuil (c. 1872)
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Edmund Tarbell: Mercie Cutting Flowers (1912)
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Anna Netrebko At The Metropolitan Opera
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Lin Fengmian: Pear Blossoms and Birds
“Lin Fengmian was one of twentieth-century China’s most important modern artists, achieving a unique synthesis of Chinese and European approaches to painting. Educated in France from 1919 to 1925, he was among the first Chinese painters to be exposed to the avant-garde trends that swept post-war Europe.” READ FULL ESSAY: Christie’s See More Lin Fengmian…
Martin Helmchen Plays Mozart
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A Little Liszt, A Little Lebasque
As is noted by Lisa Banner, ‘’Intimism,’ a term which best describes Lebasque’s painting, refers to the close domestic subject matter in such a manner as to convey the personal nature of his response to the thing painted, and the universal familiarity of home and family. There is a sense of calm infused in Lebasque’s…
Van Gogh: Two Cypresses (1889)
Cypresses was painted in late June 1889, shortly after Van Gogh began his yearlong stay at the asylum in Saint-Rémy. The subject, which he found “beautiful as regards lines and proportions, like an Egyptian obelisk,” both captivated and challenged the artist: “It’s the dark patch in a sun-drenched landscape, but it’s one of the most…
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