Lately, I have been delving into the lives of some of the talented women surrounding the Pre-Raphaelite movement, both artists and models, so I am delighted to re-blog this poem by Gwendrina. Published at The Peaceful Pub, “Sister From The Order Of The Pre-Raphaelites” is a poem about “a fictitious member of the group based…
Category: art
Emily Carr: War Canoes, Alert Bay (1912)
The Audain Art Museum’s Permanent Collection of nearly 200 works of art is a visual journey through the history of art from coastal British Columbia. Spanning from the 18th century to present day, the Collection contains one of the world’s finest collections of Northwest Coast First Nations masks; a large collection of works by…
Reuven Rubin and Itzhak Perelman: Jewish Art and Music
Reuven Rubin’s painting, Chassidic Dancers, appeared on the cover of the CD, Itzhak Perelman, In the Fiddler’s House, Angel/EMI Records, 1995. Listen to one song from the album: Click For Enlarged Detail Slideshow best viewed At Sunnyside Music Details Thanks for Visiting 🌻 ~Sunnyside
Reuven Rubin: Galilean Landscape (1929)
Galilean Landscape According to Christie’s, “In 1922 Rubin [returns] to Palestine, settling in Tel-Aviv: Galilean Landscape [is] painted during this period of rekindled communion with the land. The 1920s [see] Rubin becoming an artistic regenerative force in the burgeoning art community.“ Christie’s writes about this painting: Executed in the 1920s, ‘Galilean Landscape’ exemplifies Reuven Rubin’s…
Emily Carr: Forest Glade
“I sat staring, staring, staring – half lost, learning a new language, or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.” -Emily Carr See Full Biography: Emily Carr: Who Is She?
Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky: Still Life With Lilacs
Click For Enlarged Image: Details: Nikolai Petrovich Bogdanov-Belsky, (1868-1945), Russian STILL LIFE WITH LILACS signed N. Bogdanov-Belsky (lower left) oil on canvas 30 3/4 by 26 in., 78 by 66 cm, Source: Sotheby’s Thanks for Visiting! 🙂 The End
Reuven Rubin: Arab Woman With Potted Plant (1923)
Distinctively Israeli Reuven Rubin is the eighth of 13 children born to a Romanian Jewish Hasidic family. Jewish Virtual Library states, “Although born in Rumania and trained in art in Paris and Rumania, Reuven Rubin in many ways is a distinctly and distinctively Israeli artist. (JVL) Although he spends his life traveling between Romania, Paris, New…
Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta: Girls at a Window (c.1875)
Click for enlarged detail: Did you spot the binoculars? 😎 Details Girls at a Window ca. 1875 Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta (Spanish, Rome 1841–1920 Versailles) European Paintings Medium: Oil on canvas Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436928 Thanks for Reading! 🙂 The…
Augusto Giacometti: Poppy on Gray Background, (1932)
Pioneer of Abstraction Augusto Giacometti (1877 –1947) was a Swiss artist from Stampa, Graubünden, known predominantly as a painter in the Art Nouveau and Symbolism movements, as well as for his work in stained glass. He was a proponent of murals and a designer of popular posters. He is cousin of Giovanni Giacometti – father…
Jean Brusselmans: Seringen [Lilacs], 1934
Via: Les Illusions perdues #Jean Brusselmans #Flemish expressionism #flower painting #lilacs #lilas #modern art #20th century Belgian art Click For Enlarged Image Jean Brusselmans (Belgian, 1884-1953), Seringen [Lilacs], 1934. Oil on canvas, 85 x 60 cm., Source: https://herzogtum-sachsen-weissenfels.tumblr.com/image/179720043974 Thanks for Visiting! 🙂 The End
Robert Delaunay: Eiffel Tower
Who is Robert Delaunay? Robert Delaunay (1885 – 1941) is a French artist who, with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others, co-founded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes. His later works were more abstract, reminiscent of Paul Klee. Delaunay’s key influence relates to bold use of colour…
Johann Heinrich Vogeler: Reverie
“People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the universe.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Chaim Soutine: View of Cagnes (c.1925)
“Someone Has Killed Soutine!” Chaim Soutine once horrified his neighbours in Paris by keeping an animal carcass in his studio to model for his painting called, not surprisingly, Carcass of Beef. The stench drove them to send for the police, whom Soutine promptly lectured on the relative importance of art over hygiene. There’s a story…
Reuven Rubin: Autumn Landscape, Peekskill, New York (1928)
Visit to New York According to Christie’s, in 1928 Reuven Rubin visited Adolph Stone, a Romanian friend who had a country home in Peekskill, New York. Rubin produced this painting of that home. Click For Enlarged Detail Slideshow best viewed At Sunnyside Thanks for Visiting 🙂 ~Sunnyside
Jacob Maris: Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer…in Oosterbeek (c.1861-1862)
Jacob Maris and The Hague School Like his two younger brothers, Willem Maris and Matthijs Maris, Jacob Maris (1837 – 1899) was a Dutch draughtsman, printmaker, and landscape painter of the Hague School, a group of artists who lived and worked in The Hague between 1860 and 1890. Their work was heavily influenced by the…
Chinese Qing Dynasty: Guanyin Bodhisattva
Click for Enlarged Image: Guanyin Bodhisattva, undated, Anonymous, Chinese, Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk, Qing dynasty, 1644–1912, 189 x 88 cm. (74 7/16 x 34 5/8 in.), Gift of DuBois Schanck Morris, Class of 1893, Source: Princeton University Art Museum, Link: http://artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/22771 Details: Guanyin Bodhisattva, undated Anonymous Qing dynasty, 1644–1912 Chinese Buddhism…
Kyoto Botanical Garden — rlmcdermott
What kind of trees were they that broke the color– all tall and green and dancing in the slow sunlight of an April afternoon? Women in blue kimonos stood beneath the delicate branches snapping pictures digital and bright. Children played, young mother’s strolled, stooped old men finished with their lives sat on stone benches. An…
Judith Bergerson: Grid Series, JackPine Studio
My fascination with grids doesn’t lessen…in fact, the more I play with them, the more ideas come. via Grid Series — Judith Bergerson / JackPine Studio
Caspar David Friedrich: Sunburst in the Riesengebirge
‘…thus it is a great merit, maybe the greatest thing the artist is capable of, when he touches the spirit and arouses thoughts, feelings and emotions in the beholder, even if these are not his own.’Caspar David Friedrich “The rocky tumbling foreground symbolises the transience of earthly life (the solitary hut a reminder of the smallness of…
Henry Moret: Grosse mer (1913)
Who Is Henry Moret? Henry Moret (1856 – 1913) was a French Impressionist painter best known for his association with Paul Gauguin and the artist colony at Pont-Aven in Brittany and for his richly colored landscapes of coastal Brittany. After his beginning as a more classical painter, Moret’s style developed under the influence of Gauguin…
Van Gogh & Japan: Part 2
‘Japonaiserie’ Begins The Convention of Kanagawa put an end to the 200-year-old Japanese foreign policy of Seclusion. and opened trade between Japan and the West. Artists like Manet, Degas and Monet, followed by Van Gogh, began to collect the cheap colour wood-block prints called ukiyo-e prints. Vincent and his brother Theo dealt in these prints,…
Mitsuko Uchida: Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37
Incredible pianist! ❤️ Universally acclaimed pianist Mitsuko Uchida plays the Beethoven Piano Concerto # 3 in C minor with The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with Mariss Jansons conducting. Music Detail Hear More Beethoven At Sunnyside Image Credit Nikolai Petrovich Bogdanov-Belsky, (1868-1945), Symphony (1920), signed in Cyrillic l.r., oil on canvas, 160.5 by 141cm., 63 by…
Lessons from Nature with Wassily, William, and Luda
William Wordsworth’s poem, The Tables Turned, Wassily Kandinsky’s painting Park von St. Cloud -Herbst, and a lovely post by Luda at Plants and Beyond remind us why we need to unplug, venture out, and notice the gifts of nature. The Tables Turned by William Wordsworth Up! up! my Friend, and quit your books; Or surely…
Pools – A Poem by Joe Barca — Vita Brevis
Pools Submitted by Joe Barca I am but water. The puddle of last night’s shower. I live for an hour or two. Until the sunshine absorbs me. I am the ocean for children in Wellington boots. For earthworms. And for the descent of errant swallows. I am pavement’s liquid memory. I……… Continue via Pools…
Maurice Denis: September Evening (1891)
Who Is Maurice Denis? Maurice Denis (November 1870 – 1943) was a French painter, decorative artist and writer who was an important figure in the transitional period between impressionism and modern art. He was associated with Les Nabis then the Symbolist movement, and then with a return to neo-classicism. His theories contributed to the…
Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky: Latgalian Girls
Latgalian Girls Listening Latgalian Girls belongs to a series of paintings depicting the children of the territory of eastern Latvia which provided great inspiration for the artist following his permanent move to Riga in 1921. These sun-suffused canvases which captured the local peasant children in their native countryside were exhibited to great acclaim at the…
Clement Massier: Art Nouveau Enameled Ceramic Plate (c. 1900)
ENAMELED CERAMIC PLATE REPRESENTING MONT FUJI, CIRCA 1900 CLEMENT MASSIER (1844-1917), Height: 42 cm. (16 ½ in.); Length: 30.5 cm. (11 ¾ in.)Origin: House of Art Nouveau Samuel Bing, Paris., Source: Christie’s Bing Who? Samuel Siegfried Bing (1838 – 1905), who usually gave his name as S. Bing (not to be confused with his brother,…
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Mountain Landscape from Clavadel (1925–26)
Switzerland: Kirchner’s Later Years William Cook in The Spectator comments, “Here in rural Graubünden, he couldn’t help but lead a healthier life. This dramatic change of scene was reflected in his art. His emotive use of colour was as revolutionary as ever, but painting landscapes instead of cityscapes meant that the effect was entirely different….
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Gut Staberhof III (1913)
The Truth, … and Nothing But the Truth I’ll be honest. Many of Ernst Kirchner’s works are….. not my favorites. (There. I said it.) This painting, however, caught my eye immediately because of the colors. A pink street? What is that all about? I looked more closely. The trees are full of texture and movement,…
At Sunnyside - Where Truth and Beauty Meet 