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Dutch National Ballet: Swan Lake
“Love and deception are the keywords in Swan Lake. Siegfried, a young prince with the soul of a poet, meets a white swan, Odette, at the lakeside one night. He promises to be faithful to her and thus also to his ideals. Back in the palace, however, Siegfried allows himself to be seduced by the…
Frederick Carl Frieseke: Foxgloves
“In Foxgloves a woman stand in a garden, enveloped in variegated flowers and verdant foliage. Conveying a romantic parallel between the woman and flowers, he blends her into the background essentially placing a “flower” within the flowers. Frieseke noted, “My one idea is to reproduce flowers in sunlight. I do not suggest detail by form,…
Frederick Carl Frieseke: Blue Curtains
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Víkingur Ólafsson: Bach’s Goldberg Variations
“The Goldberg Variations contain some of the most virtuosic keyboard music ever written, some of the most astonishingly brilliant uses of counterpoint in the repertoire and countless instances of exalted poetry, abstract contemplation and deep pathos – all within immaculately shaped structures of formal perfection. In 30 variations, built on the humble harmonic framework of…
Beethoven and Bouguereau’s “Little Shepherdess”
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Vera Danilina: Classical Guitar Concert
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…
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…
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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Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings
Hat Tip Many thanks to bluebird of bitterness for introducing me to this video in the post Happy Birthday, Samuel. Hear More Norwegian Chamber Orchestra At Sunnyside See More Odilon Redon At Sunnyside Odilon Redon at Christie’s Odilon Redon at Sotheby’s Odilon Redon at wikimedia Read More Odilon Redon at wikiwand Thanks for Visiting 🌻…
Pierre-Auguste Renoir: The Swing (1876)
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Jakub Kuszlik Plays Chopin
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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…
Paul Gauguin: The White Horse
“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…
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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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…
Bonnard: La Seine Pres de Vernon (1926)
“La Seine près de Vernon reflects the artist’s fascination with the lush nature of the region, which he transformed into a rich, yet carefully developed composition. The wild trees on the river bank act as a window that reveals the water and the expanses of sky and nature beyond it. The human presence is suggested…
Andrea Bocelli: The Lord’s Prayer
“Pissarro and his family sailed to England in December 1870 to escape the turmoil of the Franco-Prussian War. There they rented a small house in Upper Norwood. Referring to an oil painting with the same subject and date as the present gouache, Joachim Pissarro and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts wrote, “Though Pissarro refers to it as…
Frederick Carl Frieseke: Hollyhocks
During the first two decades of the 20th century Frieseke isolated himself at Le Hameau, a house adjacent to Monet’s at Giverny, and painted images of a garden world…The theme of the monumental, graceful woman with a parasol appeared often in Monet’s and Renoir’s works of the 1870s and 1880s and in Frieseke’s oeuvre between…
Edouard Manet: A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
“Opened a decade or so earlier, the Folies-Bergère had rapidly become one of most popular music halls and places of entertainment in Paris. Manet frequented it with friends and made sketches on site. However, the final work was painted entirely in his studio, where a barmaid named Suzon came to pose. She is the painting’s still centre. Her…
Hao Rao: Chopin Recitals in Żelazowa Wola
“Sunday Chopin Recitals in Żelazowa Wola are a series of open-air concerts held at the Birthplace of Fryderyk Chopin from May to September. They continue the long-term tradition initiated by Professor Zbigniew Drzewiecki, an eminent Polish pianist and teacher, in 1954. The recitals are an extraordinary opportunity to listen to performances by outstanding Polish and…
The Three Marys at the Tomb
Hat Tip Many thanks to Sister Renee at Lavish Mercy for introducing me to this painting in the post Don’t Be Afraid. Read More William Adolphe Bouguereau at The Art Story William Adolphe Bouguereau at wikiwand See More William Adolphe Bouguereau At Sunnyside William Adolphe Bouguereau at wikimedia commons William Adolphe Bouguereau wikidata chart of…
World Piano Day 2024
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Berthe Morisot: The Cradle
“Berthe Morisot showed The Cradle at the Impressionist exhibition of 1874—the first woman to exhibit with the group. The painting was scarcely noticed although important critics commented on its grace and elegance. After unsuccessful attempts to sell it, Berthe Morisot withdrew it from display and The Cradle stayed in the model’s family until it was…
William Adolphe Bouguereau: The Pieta
“The immediate inspiration for Pietà came not from Bouguereau’s devout Christianity, but from the painful loss of his eldest son Georges who died on July 19, 1875 at the age of sixteen. After spending several months overwhelmed by grief, Bouguereau sought to lift his spirits by fully immersing himself in his art. For several weeks,…
Edgar Degas: Scène de ballet (c.1885)
“The costumes of the dancers on stage become vibrant bursts of color which fuse with the equally indistinct stage props; together the forms hover on the edge of legibility, almost disintegrating into an abstract pattern of light and colour. At centre, the dancers’ bodies are suggested with the utmost precision. They are little more than…
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