Archibald Thorburn: A Frosty Dawn

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Chu Teh-chun: Le chaos vaincu

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Emil Nolde: Flower Garden

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Zoltán Kocsis: Deux Arabesques (Debussy)

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Claude Monet: Iris mauves

“One striking characteristic of Monet’s paintings of the irises in the water garden is his experimentation with unusual and unexpected vantage points. In three canvases from the 1914-1917 sequence, for example, Monet set up his easel on the Japanese bridge in the garden and painted the view looking down on the clumps of irises and…

Dame Laura Knight: A Girl Reading

“A young woman, in profile is reading a letter in a sunlit landscape; she wears a white blouse and her auburn hair is pinned under a broad-brimmed straw hat, its red ribbon falling over her left shoulder. On closer inspection, spots of sunlight piercing through the weave of the hat fall on to her face…

Louis Valtat: Fleurs dans un vase

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Childe Hassam: Improvisation

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Philip de László: Princess Ruspoli, Duchess de Gramont

For this portrait, de László has employed unusual shades of green and purple not often seen in his palette. This, and the swathe of material draped about her head, may be said to reflect the original tastes of his sitter, well known as a fashion icon, whose olive skinned beauty well suited these colours. Christie’s…

Dame Laura Knight: Gypsies at Home

“Knight first became fascinated by gypsies at Ascot race meetings where, for many years, she drew and painted them from the comfort of a shining Rolls Royce; ‘This Royal meeting was a special occasion for the gipsies [sic.]; they came in their bright satin gala dresses, hair elaborately arranged with curls soaped to their cheeks,…

Louis Valtat: Vase avec bouquet de fleurs

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Ji-Hye Jung Plays Mozart

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Ludmil Angelov Plays Chopin

“Drawing with the vivid tints of his pastel sticks, Redon imbued the present Fleurs with an abundance of ecstatic lyricism that transcends the representation of natural appearances, to a degree characteristically his own, but until then unprecedented in the traditions of this genre. The artist regales the viewer with exquisite hybrids of his own imagining—“choice…

Martha, Mozart, and Loiseau

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Wladyslaw Szpilman: The Pianist, Part 3

Władysław Szpilman (5 December 1911 – 6 July 2000) was a Polish pianist and classical composer of Jewish descent. Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the 2002 Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which was based on Szpilman’s autobiographical account of how he survived the German occupation of Warsaw and the Holocaust. wikiwand…

Peder Mork Mönsted: Winter Landscape, Odnes-Valdres

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Aleksei Vladimirovich Isupov: Two Gypsies

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John William Waterhouse: The Soul of the Rose

“Waterhouse’s title is loosely derived from Chaucer’s dream poem, Romaunt of the Rose, itself adapted from the 13th-century French romance: Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris. The narrator embarks on a pilgrimage with the god of love, who leads him to a rose symbolizing perfect love. The poem had been treated by Waterhouse’s…

Chu Teh-Chun: Tender Memories

“The pastel blue background in Tendres Souvenirs (Tender Memories) resembles the fleeting past, and the various overlapping brushstrokes placed on top are reminiscent of the artist’s happy and carefree experiences. Various shades of blue are used to denote the big and small events in his life, and the blackish brown colour blocks at the bottom…

Evgeny Kissin Plays Chopin

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Debussy’s Clair de Lune VII

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Lang Lang Plays Beethoven

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Sérusier and Scarlatti – With Yuja Wang

Hat Tip Many thanks to bluebird of bitterness for introducing me to this video in the post Happy birthday, Domenico. Hear More Domenico Scarlatti At Sunnyside Yuja Wang At Sunnyside Read More The Nabis at ArtStory Les Nabis on Wikiwand Les Nabis at Google Arts and Culture Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History Paul Sérusier at…

Dame Laura Knight: In the Sun, Newlyn

“In the Sun, Newlyn was made around 1909, and is a distillation of a hot, carefree Edwardian summer… The Knights had taken lodgings in the village of Paul with the cheerful, eccentric Mrs Beer, who owned the Penzer House guest house; from their rooms ‘the whole stretch of the bay could be seen and grey…

William McGregor Paxton: Bellissima

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Łukasz Krupiński: Chopin Recital

“In 1916 Cursiter married Orcadian Phyllis Hourston, a gifted violinist. Almost immediately after their wedding, Cursiter was sent to the Somme. He was shortly invalided out of the trenches, but went on to develop a revolutionary technique of map-making in France, which earned him a military O.B.E. After World War I, Cursiter was earning a…

“Agostina’s Eyes” by Remko Kühne

What do you hear when you see a painting of Van Gogh? What inspired Remko Kühne? Remko: “I feel for this lady, she’s been spreading joy for so many people, with her café, but there’s so much loneliness in her eyes. In the painting you can see she tries to stay strong and proud, but…

Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur de Merprès: Three Women in the Garden

“Apart from his depiction of lush nature and lithe women, it is his characteristic coloring and the manner in which he applies pigment onto the canvas that truly makes Le Mayeur a renowned artist. In accordance with the habits of an Impressionist painter, Le Mayeur painted outdoors to capture sights bathed in natural light. The…