At Sunnyside – Where Truth and Beauty Meet

Arvo Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel

“Arvo Pärt (Estonian pronunciation: [ˈɑrʋo ˈpært]; born 11 September 1935) is an Estonian composer of contemporary classical music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs tintinnabuli, a compositional technique he invented. Pärt’s music is in part inspired by Gregorian chant. His most performed works include Fratres (1977), Spiegel im Spiegel…

Nicolò Paganini: Sonata Concertata in A Major

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Hermenegildo Anglada-Camarasa: Romería, the Gipsy Dance

“Plaintive yet passionate, earthy yet full of grace, the Spanish gitana has been all but synonymous with Spain since her kinsfolk first landed on Iberia’s shores in the fifteenth century from as far afield as India. The Spanish came to revere but also fear gypsies because of their nomadic way of life and the freedoms…

Biagio Marini: Passacaglia in G Minor

“La barque aux deux femmes blanches is an iconic Redon seascape, the figures seemingly rapt in pensive silence, immersed in the radiance of inward visions, transported to distant unknowable realms on spectral currents of dream…Through his use of vibrant tints of color, he made the mainstay of his new work a brilliant, otherworldly fluorescence of…

Claude Monet: Water Lilies

“Plants, water, and sky seem to merge in Claude Monet’s evocative painting of his lily pond at Giverny. The disorienting reflections, bold brushstrokes, and lack of horizon line or spatial depth make Water Lilies appear almost abstract. Painted about 1922, it belongs to a grand project that Monet had conceived as far back as 1897:…

“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…

Henri Fantin-Latour: Faces and Flowers

“In his review of the 1889 Salon, Emile Zola described the artist’s work: “The canvases of M. Fantin-Latour do not assault your eyes, they do not leap at you from the walls. They must be looked at for a length of time in order to penetrate them and their conscientiousness, their simple truth—you take these…

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…

Childe Hassam: The Fourth of July

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Léon-Augustin Lhermitte: Les couturières

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Nicolai Fechin: Peasant Woman and Child

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Bernardus Johannes Blommers: A Day at the Beach

“Blommers, like many Hague School painters, had a preference for placing his motifs in the centre of his paintings…In this work he does not show any moralistic references or social commitment, but he paints the sunny side of life showing children in their happy and carefree state, which was not often the case in the…

Rediscovered: The Madonna of the Cherries

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Graham Sutherland: Study of Winston Churchill

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Zhang Daqian: Waterfall in Summer

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Robert Delaunay: Woman with a Parasol

“From 1912 onwards, the followers of the Cubist movement gradually evolved from their monochrome beginnings towards a more colourful mode. Robert Delaunay was one of the first to react against the chromatic monotony of analytical Cubism and to advocate “pure painting” and the importance of colour in painterly practice. The French painter, who left many…

Peder Mork Monsted: A Cottage Garden With Chickens

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Odilon Redon: L’enfant prédestinée, Ophélie

There is a willow grows askant the brookThat shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.Therewith fantastic garlands did she makeOf cornflowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples,That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,But our cold maids do “dead men fingers” call them.There on the pendant boughs her coronet weedsClamb’ring to hang, an envious sliver broke,When…

Hauser: Beethoven’s Pathétique Sonata

“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…

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

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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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Frederic Leighton’s Flaming June

“According to Leighton, the composition was inspired by the posture of a tired model. He elaborated her sinuous pose and then added sheer orange draperies. Her skin flushed by the sun, she is transformed into a personification of summer heat. The image reflects Leighton’s allegiance to artistic ideals that emphasized harmonious color and form over…

Jasper Johns: Flag

“It all began…with my painting a picture of an American flag,” Johns remarked in 1959 in reference to this work. Flag was made on a cut bedsheet using oil paint and then encaustic, a method involving pigmented melted wax. Johns dipped strips of cloth and newsprint into the hot wax and then affixed them to…

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…