“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…
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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…
James Taylor: Country Road
“Chemin de Pontoise, Auvers-sur-Oise depicts a sunny day in Pontoise, a bustling market town about twenty-five miles northwest of Paris where Pissarro lived in 1866-1868 and again from 1872-1882. The canvas was painted in 1876, at the apex of Pissarro’s career as an Impressionist landscape painter. Christopher Lloyd and Anne Distel have described Pissarro’s work…
Claude Monet: Cabin of the Customs Watch
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Alfred Munnings: A Huntsman Riding Through a Thicket
“Living at Church Farm in Swainsthorpe from around 1903 until 1911, Munnings often rode with the Norwich Staghounds: ‘Hunting became a part of my life, and I saw many things on those days: bright winter sunlight on clipped horses and scarlet coats; on bare trees; stacks; on farmhouse gables; the riding out after a slight…
Dame Laura Knight: In the Sun, Newlyn
“In the Sun, Newlyn was made around 1909, and is a distillation of a hot, carefree Edwardian summer… The Knights had taken lodgings in the village of Paul with the cheerful, eccentric Mrs Beer, who owned the Penzer House guest house; from their rooms ‘the whole stretch of the bay could be seen and grey…
A Visit to Monet’s Garden
Monet frequently painted outdoors, drawing endless inspiration from the plants, trees, and pond at Giverny. The gardens on his property were the great extravagance of his final years; their upkeep required the services of six full-time gardeners. Monet planted agapanthus—a thin, wispy lily plant native to Africa—along the banks of his pond as well as…
Frieseke and an Irish Folk Song
“Frederick Frieseke’s The Hammock intimately captures the artist’s wife Sarah, whom he nicknamed Sadie, lounging in the private garden of their home in Giverny, France…This painting has all the hallmarks of Frieseke’s mature impressionist style–loose brushwork, a fascination with sunlight, and a highly decorative surface treatment characterized by abundant pattern and vibrant color. The diagonal…
Degas’ Deux danseuses en jaune
“By the 1890s, pastel had become his most favoured medium as it allowed him a variety of techniques and, crucially, the chance to build up complex layered colour schemes, as is evident here…This is evident, for instance, in the areas of shadow and light, for instance the turquoise area by the right-hand dancer’s left leg…Degas’…
A Little Paganini and Pissarro
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Philip de Laszlo: Master of Portraiture
“Philip de László was one of the most stylish and successful portrait painters of the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries. Like John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), he was an exponent of the fluidly-painted ‘swagger portrait’, but always managed to capture a sense of the sitter’s interior life, sometimes with a tinge of…
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…
Childe Hassam: The Goldfish Window
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Frederick Carl Frieseke: The Bird Cage
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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…
Philip de Laszlo: The Golden Guinness Girl
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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…
Frederick Carl Frieseke: Young Girl Before a Mirror in a Pink Dress
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William Nicholson: Sunflowers
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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:…
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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Henry Salem Hubbell: Young Woman With a Toy
“Henry Salem Hubbell is admired for his use of colors, as seen in the vibrant brushstrokes of this figure’s multicolored coat. Hubbell painted many portraits of women elegantly captured in the simple act of pouring tea, lacing a boot, or playing with a toy.” Questroyal Fine Art Hear More Mozart At Sunnyside See More This…
Mozart: Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-Flat Major, K. 493
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Renoir: Jeune fille assise dans un jardin ou La Grisette
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Frederick Carl Frieseke: Through the Vines
“This painting depicts the artist’s wife, Sarah (nicknamed Sadie), in a boat on the river Epte near Giverny, France. Sadie was also a painter and often chose props for her husband’s compositions and posed as his model. The Friesekes were part of a large group of American artists living in Giverny at the beginning of…
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