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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…
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake with Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev
Swan Lake, Op. 20 Composer: Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Dancers: Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev with members of Wiener Staatsopernballett Ballet in 4 acts by: Vladimir Begitchev and Vasily Geltzer Orchestra: Wiener Symphoniker Conductor: John Lanchbery Choreography: Rudolf Nureyev Directed: Truck Branss Image source Edgar Degas, The Entrance of the Masked Dancers (1882), Pastel on gray…
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…
Nature’s Paintbox
Originally posted on Candia Comes Clean:
Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart
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…
Sofiya Albinovskaya-Minkevich. A Frozen Day. 1963
Originally posted on Art and Faith:
A Frozen Day Sofiya Albinovskaya-Minkevich 1963
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,…
Jean-François Millet: Calling Home the Cattle (late 1850s)
This painting brings back fond memories of my grandparents’ small farm and the people who shaped my childhood. If I shut my eyes and unplug the electronics, I can feel the utter peace of the twilight hillside at the foot of the Great Smokey Mountains. It is nearing sunset, and Grandaddy brings the cows up…
Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky: Symphony (1920)
Well, No Wonder! For most of this year, I have searched for good quality images of Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky’s paintings. His work deserves close study, which demands images of the highest resolution. Furthermore, many of us won’t find his works in museums near us for scrutiny. Symphony is one of my favorites. Sotheby’s writes, “Bogdanov-Belsky studied…
Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky: Boys in a Birch Forest
Click for Enlarged Detail: Details Nikolai Petrovich Bogdanov-Belsky 1868-1945 BOYS IN A BIRCH FOREST signed in Cyrillic l.l. oil on canvas 81.5 by 104.5cm, 32 by 41in. Source: Sotheby’s Thanks for Visiting! 🙂 The End
Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky: The Schoolgirl Reading by Lamplight
Successful Exhibition 1917-1918 Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky showed his paintings, including The Schoolgirl Reading by Lamplight, at the 46th Itinerant Exhibition in 1917-1918, which was a time of great social and political upheaval. According to Sotheby’s catalogue, the success was surprising: ‘We assumed that during the revolutionary events people would be indifferent to art and that we would struggle to sell anything. Fortunately, we were…
Emile Claus: Sunny Day (1899)
A Risk: Google Translates Emile Claus’ oeuvre gives us a picture of everyday life in the Leie region around the turn of the 1900s. A painting as Sunny Day, which was created exactly that year, is a model for his narrative impressionism. The canvas displays remarkable parallels with the work of a well-trained photographer. After…
Kojima Torajiro and His Patron
Japan Meets Modern Western Art Torajiro Kojima (1881-1929) was a Japanese artist who chose to use the same visual language as the Impressionists. After a course in Western painting at the University of Fine Arts and Music in Tokyo, Japan, Torajiro Kojima left Japan in 1908 to study in Paris, aided by his patrons, the Ohara…
Jenny Montigny: “The Gardener”
Google Said ‘oeuvre’, not I 😉 Jenny Montigny preferred to paint everyday scenes from the countryside and village life in Sint-Martens-Latem. As here in “The Gardener”, these snapshots are not a reason to visualize social abuses or emphasize the weight of labor. On the contrary, Montigny always painted a harmonious society. The subject itself seems…
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