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The Real Cézanne
“In removing recognizable details, Cezanne moved a step forward in his desire to fully translate the sensation of standing within nature…As Cezanne described, in the present work, he has rendered the mountain in a palette of soft blues, as well as lilacs and pinks, lending this monumental landmark a sense of ephemeral lightness that perfectly…
Edgar Degas: Dancers in Red Skirts
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Renoir’s Eye for Color
“Reading forms an important recurring motif in Renoir’s oeuvre, despite his professed aversion to all literary influences in visual art. “For me, a painting should be something pleasant, joyous, and pretty,” he insisted, “yes, pretty!” (ibid., p. 16). Books distracted his models from the difficult task of posing at length, allowing him to work without…
Odilon Redon – And a Little Beethoven
“Phaéton is a stunning example of Symbolist painting by one of the period’s great talents: Odilon Redon…Phaeton was the son of the sun-god Helios whose chariot pulled the Sun across the sky. Phaeton, young and impulsive, demanded to try to drive the chariot but the pull was too strong and the chariot crashed into earth. In order…
Camille Pissarro: La cueillette des pommes
“In both of his versions of La cueillette des pommes, then, Pissarro was carefully constructing reality, augmenting it in order to be able to give a more profound sensation for the viewer, echoing Degas’ statement that, ‘Drawing is not what one sees but what one can make others see’ (quoted in R. Kendall, ed., Degas…
How Claude Monet Transformed French Painting
“Monet expanded the gardens surrounding his home at Giverny, in northern France, after seeing a Japanese garden and water-lily display at the 1889 world’s fair in Paris. The arched bridge he placed over a new pond may have been suggested by a Japanese gardener (as yet unidentified) who visited him when he was planning the…
Jules Bastien-Lepage: The Village Lovers
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Camille Pissarro: Rue des Roches au Valhermeil
“The critic J.-K. Huysmans praised Pissarro’s approach, stating: ‘From close up [the painting] is like brickwork, a strange wrinkled [patchwork], a stew of colours of all kinds covering the canvas with lilac, Naples yellow, madder-red, and green; at a distance, it is the air that moves, it is the sky that is boundless, it is…
Henri Lebasque: Portrait de Madame Berthe Delaunay
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Nicolò Paganini: Sonata Concertata in A Major
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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:…
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…
Léon-Augustin Lhermitte: Les couturières
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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…
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…
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…
James Taylor: You’ve Got a Friend
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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…
Andre Brasilier: La ronde des cavaliers
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Renoir: Jeune fille assise dans un jardin ou La Grisette
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Eugène Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People
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A Little Lebasque, Niemann, and Li
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Dutch National Ballet: Swan Lake
“Love and deception are the keywords in Swan Lake. Siegfried, a young prince with the soul of a poet, meets a white swan, Odette, at the lakeside one night. He promises to be faithful to her and thus also to his ideals. Back in the palace, however, Siegfried allows himself to be seduced by the…
Beethoven and Bouguereau’s “Little Shepherdess”
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Vera Danilina: Classical Guitar Concert
Influenced by his contact with Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard during the 1890s, Henri Lebasque spent the better part of his career painting the quiet moments of family life. While Vuillard focused his intimiste vision on the domestic interior, a number of Bonnard’s Nabis paintings depict figures outside, and it is Bonnard who seems to…
A Little Monet, A Little Mozart
“The shimmering light of mid-afternoon infuses Claude Monet’s painting of the old fortified coastal town of Antibes in the south of France. Monet traveled there in January of 1888 and was dazzled by the light and the striking scenery of the legendary Côte d’Azur (Azure Coast). However, he sometimes struggled with how to represent it…
La Poétesse Meets Rachmaninoff
“The artist’s model for the present work was his wife, Marie Barbaroux. In the tradition of the great nineteenth-century Symbolists, Martin depicts her here in the guise of the poetess Clémence Isaure.” Sotheby’s “As a young man, fresh from his first success as a composer with the opera Aleko, Rachmaninoff was on his way to…
Paul Gauguin: Les Lavandières à Arles II
“Washerwomen in Arles was painted during Gauguin’s sojourn in the French town of Arles, where he had gone to work in the last quarter of 1888, summoned by Van Gogh, who was trying to assemble an artistic group… Outstanding features of this painting are the abstraction of its backgrounds, the impression of movement and photographic…
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