“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…
Category: French art
Tchaikovsky: Russian Dance from Swan Lake
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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…
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…
Kyuhee Park: Sonata in D major, K.178 (Scarlatti)
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Dvorak: Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major
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The Life and Art of Odilon Redon
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Joseph Bologne’s Violin Concerto No. 2 in A Major
Who Was Joseph Bologne? “Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-George(s) (25 December 1745 – 9 June 1799) was a French violinist, conductor, composer and soldier. His historical significance lies in his distinctive background as a biracial free man of color. Bologne was the first classical composer of African descent to attain widespread acclaim in European music. He…
Hauser: Air on the G String (Bach)
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Rabindranath Tagore: Where The Mind Is Without Fear
“For Pissarro, the rural countryside represented the very antithesis to modern urban life. Indeed, in paintings such as La Charité the artist celebrates, as Robert Herbert suggested, “ideals of health, honest labor and dignity which he set against the pollution and degraded labor of the city” (Robert Herbert, “City vs. Country: The Rural Image in French Painting…
Léon-Augustin Lhermitte: Peasant Woman Resting (1903)
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Julia Rovinsky: Harp Concerto in B-Major (Handel)
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Peter, Paul, and Mary: Blowin’ In The Wind #1
Blowin’ In The Wind by Bob Dylan How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man? How many seas must a white dove sail Before she sleeps in the sand? Yes, ‘n’ how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they’re forever banned? The answer, my friend, is blowin’…
Jacques Emile Blanche: Tamara Karsavina, of the Ballets Russes (1928)
“In her autobiography, Theatre Street, Tamara Karsavina recalls sitting for Jacques-Emile Blanche in 1911: “That summer I sat to Jacques Blanche for my portrait. A quieter refuge from the feverish pulsation of Parisian life could not have been found than his large studio at Passy. The same restfulness emanated from the artist himself. There was…
Bonnard and Bach
“Albrecht Mayer discovered the music of J.S. Bach at the age of 8, as a choirboy at Bamberg Cathedral. Within a couple of years he was able to play some of the composer’s simpler keyboard pieces on the piano. “Even then,” he recalls, “I could feel this transcendent image of his music going through my…
Jun Luke Foster: Serenade (Schubert/Liszt)
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Home Free: Sea Shanty Medley
“According to Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, “Martin owed his success to the development of a painting style that melded traditional and modernist elements. While he valued and relied upon his solid academic training, he was also quite attracted to the innovations of the Impressionists and Neo-Impressionists. With the former group, especially Claude Monet, he shared an…
Schubert: Ständchen from “Schwanengsang”
“October is an account of the bleak autumnal potato harvest, set in a bare, featureless landscape. October was painted at the artist’s native village of Damvillers, in the Meuse Valley to the northeast of Paris. Here, inspired by the example of Millet and Courbet, Bastien-Lepage had planned to paint rural life as he knew it,…
Diogo Rodrigues: Canarios (Sanz)
Hat Tip Many thanks to Claudio Capriolo at la regina gioiosa for introducing me to this performance in his post, Canarios: Sanz & Rodrigo. See More Claude Monet 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…
Thomas and Brocal: Nocturne in B minor, No. 20 Op. (Chopin)
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Paul Gauguin: Autumn in Brittany
“Fleeing what he felt was the overly civilized and decadent environment of Paris, Paul Gauguin lived periodically in the remote and rugged Brittany region of northwestern France. In works such as this, he sought to convey traditional village life, which he considered an antidote to the ills of modern society. Unlike the Impressionists, Gauguin did…
Jacques-Louis David: Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and His Wife (1788)
“A landmark of European portraiture that asserts a modern, scientifically minded couple in fashionable but simple dress, this painting was excluded from the Salon of 1789 for fears it would further ignite revolutionary zeal. Technical analysis has revealed that a first iteration excluded the scientific instruments and would have been a far more conventional portrait…
Malcolm Guite: Unless a Grain of Wheat…
Unless a Grain of Wheat Falls into the Ground and Dies by Malcolm Guite Oh let me fall as grain to the good earth And die away from all dry separation, Die to my sole self, and find new birth Within that very death, a dark fruition, Deep in this crowded underground, to learn The…
Vivaldi: Concerti con molti strumenti (E. Galante and F. Biondi)
“In its final form, the painting is a private palimpsest of the various phases of Gauguin’s evolution as a painter, documenting—to paraphrase the title of the artist’s later Tahitian masterpiece—where he had come from (“d’où venons nous”), who he was (“que sommes nous”), and where he was going (“où allons nous”). “Tracing the trajectory of…
Mozart: Sonata in A Minor K. 310, Mvt. 2
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Mozart: Clarinet quintet K581 in A major
“Bonnard’s fascination with the vibrant urban landscape of Paris can be traced to his paintings of the mid-1890s…The spectacle of urban modernity provided a colorful source of inspiration, and the artist was drawn to the variety of subjects it offered. His city scenes reflect a unique joie de vivre achieved through the use of bright…
Hauser and Morricone: Theme for Ennio
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Paul Gauguin: Nature morte avec pivoines de chine et mandoline (1885)
“The dominant blue palette in Nature morte avec pivoines de chine et mandoline is exceptional not only for its brilliance and rarity within Gauguin’s oeuvre but also for its evocative symbolism within art history. Often connoting the numinous and the divine, the color blue and its spiritual significance would not have been lost on the…
Mignarda: Audi Benigne Conditor
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At Sunnyside - Where Truth and Beauty Meet 