At Sunnyside – Where Truth and Beauty Meet

Yenne Lee: Autumn Leaves

Jeune femme assise jouant de la guitare belongs to a group of works that Renoir painted of women and men playing the guitar. Renoir’s appreciation for “La Belle Otéro,” a dancer at the Folies-Bergère who was celebrated at the time as the embodiment of Spanish seduction, is thought to have inspired these works. Although the…

Van Gogh’s Irises and the Search for Violet

“In May 1889, after episodes of self-mutilation and hospitalization, Vincent van Gogh chose to enter an asylum in Saint-Rémy, France. There, in the last year before his death, he created almost 130 paintings. Within the first week, he began Irises, working from nature in the asylum’s garden. The cropped composition, divided into broad areas of…

Pierre-Auguste Renoir: L’église à Essoyes

“Although Renoir would keep his rented Parisian apartment throughout his life, from the late 1880s onward, much of his time would be spent in the countryside enjoying the tranquil pleasures the retreat had to offer. Renoir’s middle son, Jean, wrote of their home in the region with great nostalgia, “Essoyes, where my mother and Gabrielle…

Hauser: Postlude #3 by Valentin Silvestrov

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Fuchs: Clarinet Chamber Music

‘”I am still wrapped up in flowers, underwater dramas, among those beings which might exist. Painting, with its limitless resources, is an infinitely enjoyable art. I believe that I can make continual progress with it, right to the end [of my life]. The results I achieve at the moment torment me much less’ (Redon, quoted…

Henri Le Sidaner: Matin doré

“Painted in 1920 Matin doré demonstrates Henri Le Sidaner’s exceptional talent in conveying the optical effects of colour and light. The varying manifestations of light, reflecting on a surface or filtering through the natural environment, was a key preoccupation for the artist throughout his career, so much so that he would advise his students that…

Vincenzo Albrici: Sonata in D minor

Hat Tip Many thanks to Claudio Capriolo at la regina gioiosa for introducing me to this music in the post A tre. See More Chu Teh-Chun At Sunnyside CHU TEH-CHUN at Christie’s CHU TEH-CHUN at Sotheby’s CHU TEH-CHUN at Bonhams Read More CHU TEH-CHUN at wikiwand 10 things to know about poet painter Chu Teh-Chun…

Pissarro: The Father of Impressionism

“Pissarro painted the present scene during the early fall of 1884, when some of the trees retained their green and others were ablaze in red, orange, and gold…The canvas depicts a small wash-house on the banks of the Epte at Bazincourt, where local women could launder their clothes…Unlike Pissarro’s well-known view of the wash-house at…

Eva Cassidy: Time After Time

“Carefully divided into hot and cold-colored areas, the composition is dominated by the undulating lines of the dress, guitar, armchair and cushion that contrast with the verticals of the background. The white dress is shaped by white gradations. Shades of blue and grey suggest the play of shade and light on the garment…” READ FULL…

Bertha Wegmann, Portrait Painter Extraordinaire

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Benedict Enwonwu: Contemporary African Art

“The sinuous abstraction of a silhouette of the regal female represented his ideal of African culture; beautiful, powerful and full of creative potential. …While geometrically abstracted, the depiction of robes that the figure is adorned with communicates this work as highly significant within Enwonwu’s oeuvre. … In this extraction, Enwonwu displays his commitment to displaying…

John Atkinson Grimshaw: A Moonlit Road

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Louis Valtat and Voices of Music

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Claude Monet: The Steps

“In L’Escalier, Monet has selected as his subject an unprepossessing but utterly charming corner of an old farmyard. The pale stucco walls and steeply slanting, shingled roofs form a shallow succession of jostling planes, with only a narrow strip of cloud-flecked sky visible at the top of the canvas. In compositional terms, L’Escalier is anchored…

Edgar Degas: Femme s’essuyant

“Among the pastels Degas exhibited in the final Impressionist exhibition of 1886 were ten works which marked the debut of his domestic bathers theme—“Suite de nuds [sic] de femmes se baignant, se lavant, se séchant, s’essuyant …” These scenes of the female nude à sa toilette were deemed scandalous; viewers assumed the artist’s models to…

The Painting That Inspired a National Park

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Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers at National Gallery UK

“The artist’s friend, Bernard, provided a fascinating insight into this novel working method. He recalled witnessing Van Gogh, ‘With a large canvas slung on his back, he set off on his journey. He then split it up into so many compartments, depending on the subjects. When evening came, he brought it back, filled up, like…

Debussy’s Clair de Lune VI

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Henri Le Sidaner: L’église, Dolceacqua

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Apollo’s Fire: Down in the River to Pray

“Painted in 1924, two years after Gorbatov emigrated, Golden autumn is an evocative depiction of rural Russia, with its overwhelming natural beauty and tranquillity. At the height of his success abroad and participating regularly in international art exhibitions, including those at the Hague in 1924 and in Pittsburgh in 1925, Gorbatov achieved both popularity and…

William Adolphe Bouguereau: Fardeau Agréable

“In Fardeau Agréable, as in nearly all of Bouguereau’s work, the industrial age is not evident, no buildings mar the landscape, and no smoke clouds the skies of the imagined Arcadia. Bouguereau raises his figures above the harsh truth of day-to-day existence in the French peasant countryside and exalts the joy and tenderness of youth…

Henri Le Sidaner: Church Street, Villefranche-sur-Mer

Le Sidaner’s career is usually divided into an initial realist period lasting until 1893, followed by a phase linked to Symbolism (1894-1899) and an intimist period in the first years of the 20th century, up until the Great War. In the decade after the conflict, the painter created the most brilliant part of his mature…

Michael Ancher: Girl With Sunflowers

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Eva Cassidy: Desperado

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J.S. Bach: The Violin Concertos

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Rick Stevens Exhibition: In the Company of Trees

Rick Stevens: In the Company of Trees Exhibition at Kay Contemporary Art Santa Fe, New Mexico October 4-21, 2024 “My work goes quite representational to quite abstract. This stylistic range provides me opportunity to approach it from a variety of angles. Having an abstract painter’s eye when I’m painting landscapes helps in maintaining a freedom…

Wendell Berry: The Peace of Wild Things

The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and…

Camille Pissarro: Automne à Eragny

One of the most prominent avant-garde painters of his generation, Pissarro had achieved enormous success as both an Impressionist and a Neo-Impressionist painter. Adjusting certain elements from his classic Impressionist period of the 1870s, and combining them with characteristics of his Neo-Impressionist style of the 1880s, in the early 1890s Pissarro began developing a fresh…

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…

Edvard Munch: The Sick Child

“The Sick Child is one of Munch’s earliest works, considered by the artist “a breakthrough” for setting the tone for his early career in which death, loss, anxiety, madness, and the preoccupations of a troubled soul were his chief subject matter. Devoted to his deceased sister, Johanne Sophie, the painting depicts the bedridden fifteen-year-old with…