At Sunnyside – Where Truth and Beauty Meet

Léon de Smet: Coucher de Soleil sur le Village (c.1920)

“The painting dates from the period in which the artist had begun to experiment with burlap, following his move to London in 1914, on the outbreak of World War One. While de Smet’s use of discrete dashes of impasto colour does indeed recall Post-Impressionism, he allows the rough texture of the burlap beneath to ‘breathe’…

Mozart and Mønsted’s “Young Woman from Capri” (1883)

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Rabindranath Tagore: Where The Mind Is Without Fear

“For Pissarro, the rural countryside represented the very antithesis to modern urban life. Indeed, in paintings such as La Charité the artist celebrates, as Robert Herbert suggested, “ideals of health, honest labor and dignity which he set against the pollution and degraded labor of the city” (Robert Herbert, “City vs. Country: The Rural Image in French Painting…

Konstantin Gorbatov: The Invisible City of Kitezh

Konstantin Gorbatov’s masterwork The Invisible City of Kitezh… A well-known and unforgettable image, this composition is unique in Gorbatov’s oeuvre and combines folklore with the artist’s observations of life on the Volga. The legend of Kitezh originates from the early thirteenth century when Iurii II of Vladimir founded the city on the banks of the…

Glenn Gould: The Goldberg Variations, BMV 998 (Bach)

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Nati Dreddd: Caledonia

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Lilla Cabot Perry: The Gold Screen

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Fiddler on the Roof: If I Were a Rich Man

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How Great Thou Art from “The Mission”

“Completed in the mid 1960s, this painting was executed at the peak of his interest in the interpretation and depiction of galloping horses. “Toward the end of the fifties Rubin began to be much occupied with horses running in the desert as a subject for painting. He says he was inspired by his visits to the…

A Tragic Life: Empress Elisabeth of Austria

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Vivaldi: Mandolin Concertos with Fabio Biondi

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John Singer Sargent: The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit

“The historical precedent for the Boit portrait can be found in the work of the seventeenth-century Spanish master Diego Velázquez, an artist greatly admired in nineteenth-century France. Sargent had traveled to Madrid in 1879 to make copies after Velázquez at the MuseoNacional del Prado; among the paintings he studied was Las Meninas (about 1656), a…

Léon-Augustin Lhermitte: Peasant Woman Resting (1903)

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Julia Rovinsky: Harp Concerto in B-Major (Handel)

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Julian Bream: Fantasia XXIII (Milan)

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Peter, Paul, and Mary: Blowin’ In The Wind #1

Blowin’ In The Wind by Bob Dylan How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man? How many seas must a white dove sail Before she sleeps in the sand? Yes, ‘n’ how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they’re forever banned? The answer, my friend, is blowin’…

Bach: Concerto for 4 Pianos in A Minor

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Jacques Emile Blanche: Tamara Karsavina, of the Ballets Russes (1928)

“In her autobiography, Theatre Street, Tamara Karsavina recalls sitting for Jacques-Emile Blanche in 1911: “That summer I sat to Jacques Blanche for my portrait. A quieter refuge from the feverish pulsation of Parisian life could not have been found than his large studio at Passy. The same restfulness emanated from the artist himself. There was…

Stradivari Quartet: Prussian Quartett KV 575 (Mozart)

“Brendekilde trained as a stonemason before studying sculpture at the Kongelige Danske Kunstacademi (1877-1881) in Copenhagen. In 1880s Brendekilde painted together with L.A. Ring on Fyn and influenced each other’s work. Influenced by Impressionism, Brendekilde was a sensitive colourist. See P.M. Hornung, ‘NY Dansk Kunsthistorie’, Band 4, 1993, pp. 220-223 & C. Stensgaard Nielsen, in…

Hugo Mühlig: The Musician on the Move, Sun Flood

“Where griping grief the heart would wound And doleful dumps the mind oppress, There music with her silver sound Is wont with speed to give redress Of troubled minds, for ev’ry sore, Sweet music hath a salve in store…” READ FULL POST: Shakespeariana – XXXIII Hat Tip Many thanks to Claudio Capriolo at la regina…

Bach: Brandenburg Concertos 1 – 6, Claudio Abbado

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Sir Henry Raeburn: Portrait of Sarah Wordsworth (c. 1820)

“Romanticism and realism collide in this exemplary work by Sir Henry Raeburn. Painted towards the end of his career this portrait perfectly speaks the words of Scottish writer John Brown, who famously said of Raeburn: ‘He paints the truth, and he paints it with love.’[1] READ FULL ESSAY: Philip Mould & Co Thanks for Visiting…

Classic Hymns: Trust and Obey

“Norman Rockwell executed the present work as a preparatory study for Freedom of Worship, one of the four paintings that comprise his iconic Four Freedoms series. Inspired by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1941 State of the Union address, in which he outlined four essential human rights, Rockwell sought to capture the ideas of freedom from want,…

Ernest Bloch: A Celebration of Jewish Music

“Nigun” means a traditional synagogue melody, with tones that Jesus might have heard as he prayed. Sister Renee Yann Hat Tip Many thanks to Sister Renee at Lavish Mercy for introducing me to this music in her post Radical Prayer. See More Reuven Rubin At Sunnyside Reuven Rubin at Sotheby’s Thanks for Visiting 🙂 ~Sunnyside

Artemisia Gentileschi: Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting (1638–39)

“As a self-portrait the painting is particularly sophisticated and accomplished. The position in which Artemisia has portrayed herself would have been extremely difficult for the artist to capture, yet the work is economically painted, with very few pentiments. In order to view her own image she may have arranged two mirrors on either side of…

Gautier Capuçon: Les Feuilles Mortes (Autumn Leaves)

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Bonnard and Bach

“Albrecht Mayer discovered the music of J.S. Bach at the age of 8, as a choirboy at Bamberg Cathedral. Within a couple of years he was able to play some of the composer’s simpler keyboard pieces on the piano. “Even then,” he recalls, “I could feel this transcendent image of his music going through my…

Jun Luke Foster: Serenade (Schubert/Liszt)

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Home Free: Sea Shanty Medley

“According to Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, “Martin owed his success to the development of a painting style that melded traditional and modernist elements. While he valued and relied upon his solid academic training, he was also quite attracted to the innovations of the Impressionists and Neo-Impressionists. With the former group, especially Claude Monet, he shared an…

Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli: The Prayer

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