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“Chen’s work is often mentioned in the same breath as the emergence of a distinct regional style, characterised by a synthesis of Eastern and Western painting techniques and approaches. This is seen, for example, in the 1960 painting East Coast Vendor (above), which transposes Chen’s mastery and skill in portrait painting, honed from years of…
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Learning to Improvise Though I had no black paper as used in the lesson, I really wanted to draw this handsome fellow. I used grey paper and my new tinted charcoal and tried to figure out the values myself. Plan: Try again and pay more attention to edges and angles. Thanks for Visiting 🙂 ~Sunnyside
Home Again Well, I have been traveling for several weeks and could not draw, so I caught up with several lessons today. This is a lesson from The Virtual Instructor’s paid site. Thanks for Visiting 🙂 ~Sunnyside
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“The way of watercolor painting is like our world. The predictable, plannable and the unpredictable, unexpected happenings make [the painting] complete. Therefore, I apply watercolor technique in a way that allows paint and water to create miracles on the paper. Man, too, is like this, a merger of sense and sensibility.” Endre Penovác Who Is…
First Watercolor Tutorial Free tutorial by Anna Mason. I followed pretty closely, except I drew free hand, not with outline. This lesson was LOTS of fun….although she moves too fast and uses brushes that were not on the materials list. Taking a proper photograph is not easy – must learn. The original really doesn’t look…
Hear More With Lyrics (click for English translation) Read More The Classical Girl introduced me to The Flower Duet in her post, Melting into Léo Delibes’ “Flower Duet”. READ MORE HERE. Thanks for Visiting 🙂 ~Sunnyside
Who is Lilian Westcott Hale? Lilian Westcott Hale, daughter of a businessman and piano teacher, is remembered as one of America’s most successful Impressionist painters of the Boston School. She was born in 1881 in Hartford, Connecticut, and began her art education in 1900 at the School of Fine Arts in Boston. An important member…
The woman in Chrysanthemums is almost overwhelmed by the brilliant blooms surrounding her. She has rolled up her sleeves to adjust a pot, her blurred features suggesting we have caught a glimpse of her in motion. Tissot staged this scene in the conservatory attached to his studio, a glass panel of which is visible in the…
Too Beautiful For Words… Hear More Chopin At Sunnyside See More John La Farge At Sunnyside John La Farge at The Met John La Farge at wikimedia John La Farge at Google Arts and Culture Stained glass windows of John La Farge Read More John La Farge at wikiwand Thanks for Visiting 🌻 ~Sunnyside
Odilon Redon’s Originality “Etruscan Vase With Flowers”, like so many of Redon’s other works, feels and looks like another world. Though there is nothing unconventional about the subject matter itself, he paints flowers that do not exist in nature with colors that are unexpected. The result is an extraordinary and original artwork. The Metropolitan Museum…
Trio in E minor, Op. 45 (1854-56) Thanks for Visiting 🌻 ~Sunnyside
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“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” ― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America Hat Tip Thanks to Sister Renee at Lavish Mercy for introducing me to Tomoka Inoue in her post Persevering Faith Image Details Walter Launt Palmer, 1854 – 1932, SUNSET,…
Click For Enlarged Detail Slideshow best viewed At Sunnyside Details Adolphe Borie (1877 – 1934) EDITH PETTIT signed Adolphe Borie (upper left) oil on canvas 16 by 20 inches, (40.6 by 50.8 cm)Source: Sotheby’s Link: http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/american-art-n09635/lot.94.html See More Adolphe Borie – Woodmere Art Museum Thanks for Visiting 🙂 ~Sunnyside
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Thank you for such clear explanations and helpful links. Each little bit of understanding makes your paintings even more beautiful. ~Sunnyside Friedrich Zettl writes, When I was once introduced to Professor Wolfgang Kubin (he is the most important sinologist in the German-speaking world – an incredible man BTW), he said: “Yes, I know who you…
“Cassatt’s paintings often document the social interactions of well-to-do women like herself. The activities they depict—tea drinking, going to the theatre, tending children—fall within the normal routine for Cassatt’s sex and class. Yet the painter’s insistence upon representing such episodes from the modern world (even a sheltered segment of it), her dislike for narrative, and…
Who Is Albert Anker? Albrecht Samuel Anker (April 1, 1831 – July 16, 1910) was a Swiss painter and illustrator who has been called the “national painter” of Switzerland because of his popular depictions of 19th-century Swiss village life.[1][2] Click For Enlarged Details Slideshow best viewed At Sunnyside Read More Albert Anker at Wikiwand See…
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How Clear, How Lovely Bright – A.E. Houseman How clear, how lovely bright, How beautiful to sight Those beams of morning play; How heaven laughs out with glee Where, like a bird set free, Up from the eastern sea Soars the delightful day. To-day I shall be strong, No more shall yield to wrong, Shall…
Crostwick Common: Woman with a Donkey and Geese was executed in 1904, when Munnings stayed at an inn called the Crostwick White Horse, near Norwich, and painted at Crostwick Common. In his memoir An Artist’s Life, published nearly fifty years after the picture was completed, Munnings recalled those charmed days: ‘Then came the open Common….
This new recording contains the two violin sonatas and the Variations Concertantes sur une Mélodie Suisse, of which Robert Schumann wrote: ‘So sure in outline, so logical in development … that one must fall under their charm, especially since a subtle aroma of romanticism hovers over them.’ Brilliant Classics Hear More Louise Farrenc At Sunnyside…
Childe Hassam,The Church at Gloucester, 1918
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 769
“The secret of my best work is that it is Mexican.” Diego Rivera “I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is like a tree, which grows in a particular place and has a trunk, leaves, blossoms, boughs, fruit, and roots of…
English Translation: The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry or Très Riches Heures, is the most famous and possibly the best surviving example of manuscript illumination in the late phase of the International Gothic style. It is a book of hours: a collection of prayers to be said at the canonical hours. It…
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The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-grey, And Winter’s dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought their household fires. The land’s sharp features seemed to be…
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