“Van Gogh’s paintings of Sunflowers are among his most famous. He did them in Arles, in the south of France, in 1888 and 1889. Vincent painted a total of five large canvases with sunflowers in a vase, with three shades of yellow ‘and nothing else’. In this way, he demonstrated that it was possible to…
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Artemisia Gentileschi: Nativity of St. John the Baptist
Birth of John the Baptist Foretold “And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,77 to give knowledge of salvation to his people in the forgiveness of their sins,78 because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the sunrise shall visit us[h] from on high79 to…
Frank Cadogan Cowper: Vanity
“Although Cowper did not belong to a particular artistic group this, like many of his paintings, relates to the work of artists now known as ‘Second Generation Pre-Raphaelites’. Decorative and richly coloured, ‘Vanity’ suggests the romance of the past and alludes to notions of the chivalric and courtly love.” Royal Academy UK “The title of…
Serafina Jaffé: Spohr’s Fantasie c-Moll
Hat Tip Many thanks to Claudio Capriolo at la regina gioiosa for introducing me to this video in the post Fantasia per arpa. Hear More Harp music At Sunnyside See More František Kupka At Sunnyside František Kupka at Christie’s Read More František Kupka at Art Story Frantisek Kupka, 1871-1957 – Internet Archive Thanks for Visiting…
Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Tête de jeune fille
“For Renoir, female portraits offered a pathway to exploring the intricate relationships of color, paint and brushwork in the creation of form… Over the course of his studies during the 1880s, Renoir began to grow increasingly interested in the tactility of his sitter’s flesh, drawing inspiration from the art of Titian, Peter Paul Rubens and…
Le Pho: Two Ladies
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Cedric, Sokolov, and Schubert
“Morris would grow his colourful subject matter in the garden at Pound Farm where he also had a studio, and one of his ex-students, Joan Warburton (1920–1996), later reminisced how ‘to go in there quietly when Cedric was painting the favourite of all his flowers, Irises, was a revelation.’ It was Morris’s incredibly close contact…
James Taylor: You’ve Got a Friend
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Vivaldi: Concerto per l’orchestra di Dresda
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Pierre Bonnard: Bouquet de fleurs
“The still life motif formed an integral part of Bonnard’s œuvre and Bouquet de fleurs is exemplative of the artist’s long-standing exploration of colour. Bonnard applies broad gestural brushstrokes to delineate a profusion of flowers and verdant foliage that rise from a decorative blue vase and infuse the composition with a dynamic ebullience… Through this…
Henry Salem Hubbell: Young Woman With a Toy
“Henry Salem Hubbell is admired for his use of colors, as seen in the vibrant brushstrokes of this figure’s multicolored coat. Hubbell painted many portraits of women elegantly captured in the simple act of pouring tea, lacing a boot, or playing with a toy.” Questroyal Fine Art Hear More Mozart At Sunnyside See More This…
Mozart: Serenade No. 13 in G major, K. 525
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Mozart: Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-Flat Major, K. 493
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Mikhail Nesterov: The Nightingale is Singing
“…in the delicately observed motif of the nightingale’s song, which seems to come from beyond the bounds of the picture, a theme resonates which was of great significance in Nesterov’s work — the theme of music bringing man and nature into harmony. As we look at this picture, we are reminded of what Vasily Rozanov…
Zhang Daqian: Summer on California Mountain
“In spite of Summer on California Mountain’s imposing, immediate and effortless appearance, such ‘splashed-ink’ paintings were not made quickly, and required the help of his students and family members to dry each layer of colour or wash over a fire, and later with a hair dryer. This painting process was complicated and involved mounting and…
Renoir: Jeune fille assise dans un jardin ou La Grisette
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Frederick Carl Frieseke: Through the Vines
“This painting depicts the artist’s wife, Sarah (nicknamed Sadie), in a boat on the river Epte near Giverny, France. Sadie was also a painter and often chose props for her husband’s compositions and posed as his model. The Friesekes were part of a large group of American artists living in Giverny at the beginning of…
A Little Lebasque, Niemann, and Li
Hat Tip Many thanks to Claudio Capriolo at la regina gioiosa for introducing me to this album in his post Non troppo allegro e poco giocoso Hear More Walter Niemann At Sunnyside Bing Bing Li At Sunnyside Read More Henri Lebasque at wikiwand See More Henri Lebasque At Sunnyside Henri Lebasque at Christie’s Thanks for Visiting…
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,…
Dame Laura Knight: A Moment’s Rest
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Frederick Carl Frieseke: Blue Curtains
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Harold Knight: Alfred Munnings Reading
“The recent discovery of Harold Knight’s Alfred Munnings Reading…sheds new light on a fascinating moment in the early careers of both artist and sitter. When embarking on her ballet picture, Carnaval…, for reasons that remain obscure, Laura Knight selected a canvas which was stretched on top of a work by her husband, and only when…
Gino Severini: Danse de l’ours
“Abandoning any trace of figuration, the artist depicts the dancing couple in a highly abstract manner, fracturing their bodies in to a series of vibrantly coloured fragments that radiate outwards from the centre of the canvas. Through this dematerialization of form, Severini aimed to create a visual representation of the energy of the performance, moving…
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…
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…
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