Bertha Wegmann, Portrait Painter Extraordinaire

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Renoir’s Eye for Color

“Reading forms an important recurring motif in Renoir’s oeuvre, despite his professed aversion to all literary influences in visual art. “For me, a painting should be something pleasant, joyous, and pretty,” he insisted, “yes, pretty!” (ibid., p. 16). Books distracted his models from the difficult task of posing at length, allowing him to work without…

International Women’s Day 2024

Music at a Glance (00:00) Excerpt from Amy Beach’s “Dreaming” (00:46) Raphaela Gromes on the female composers she selected for her project “Femmes” (01:43) First excerpt from Pauline Viardot-GarcĂ­a’s “Six Morceaux, VWV 3003, II. BohĂ©mienne” (02:19) Raphaela Gromes on the French Opera singer and composer Pauline Viardot-GarcĂ­a (02:50) Second excerpt from Pauline Viardot-GarcĂ­a’s “Six Morceaux,…

Schubert: Adagio in E-flat Major, D.897

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Vincent Van Gogh: Une liseuse de romans

“Van Gogh painted the canvas in mid-November, during the fourth week of Gauguin’s stay at Arles. A period of bad weather had descended upon the region, and the two painters were forced to work indoors. On November 10th, Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo, “We are having wind and rain here, and I am…