““I have always been shy in your presence, but the security, the assurance of a perfect understanding relieved me of all embarrassment; nothing was lost by this understanding being a wordless one.” So wrote the typically reticent Vuillard, with unexpected candor, to the prodigiously charismatic and alluring Misia Natanson, his perennial muse and the object…
Tag: Japonism
Pierre Bonnard: Sunlight
“The present landscape shows a view of the garden of “Ma Roulotte”, the artist’s house in Normandy, a garden that grew wild in a woodland profusion. In the foreground there is a winding path with a cat, humorously indicating the scale of the tall trees. In the background, glimpsed through the foliage, is the river,…
Paul Gauguin: La Barrière
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Lilla Cabot Perry: The Picture Book
See More Lilla Cabot Perry At Sunnyside Lilla Cabot Perry at Christie’s Lilla Cabot Perry at Sotheby’s Lilla Cabot Perry at wikimedia Read More Lilla Cabot Perry at wikiwand Thanks for Visiting 🌻 ~Sunnyside
Paul Gauguin: The White Horse
“Gauguin painted this famous picture during his second stay in Tahiti. He liked to roam through the countryside and explore the mountains and forests of the interior. These out-of-the-way places swarmed with all sorts of wildlife and plants which enchanted him.But this scene is not taken from real life; it is an imaginary, synthetic vision…
Why Is Paul Gauguin So Controversial?
“Was Van Gogh really painting a vase of sunflowers when his friend Gauguin produced this portrait of him? No, he can’t have been: it was December and far too late in the year for sunflowers. But it’s quite probable that Van Gogh painted a copy of one of his own sunflower pictures around this time….
Paul Gauguin: Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (1888)
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Van Gogh & Japan: Part 1
“All my work is based to some extent on Japanese art…” Vincent to his brother Theo from Arles, 15 July 1888 What did Van Gogh learn from Japanese prints? Vincent van Gogh and his brother Theo had an extensive collection of Japanese prints. I want to understand how Japanese art changed van Gogh’s painting. Van…
A Kiss and a Concerto
I never tire of the pure joy surrounding this whole group of talented musicians. Isserlis is a masterful performer – a treat! Do you see the magnificent mural on the wall behind the orchestra? Read more about the mural in Edvard Munch and The Suns 🙂 Gustav Klimt and ‘The Kiss’ “Truth is like…
Lilla Cabot Perry: The Blue Kimono
Who Is Lilla Cabot Perry? Lilla Cabot Perry (1848 – 1933) was an American Impressionist artist and writer who published four volumes of original poetry and a translation of classical Greek verse. According to National Museum of Women in the Arts, “Although she had no formal art training until age 36, Lilla Cabot Perry became a professional painter…
Van Gogh & Japan: Part 2
‘Japonaiserie’ Begins The Convention of Kanagawa put an end to the 200-year-old Japanese foreign policy of Seclusion. and opened trade between Japan and the West. Artists like Manet, Degas and Monet, followed by Van Gogh, began to collect the cheap colour wood-block prints called ukiyo-e prints. Vincent and his brother Theo dealt in these prints,…
Maurice Denis: September Evening (1891)
Who Is Maurice Denis? Maurice Denis (November 1870 – 1943) was a French painter, decorative artist and writer who was an important figure in the transitional period between impressionism and modern art. He was associated with Les Nabis then the Symbolist movement, and then with a return to neo-classicism. His theories contributed to the…
Clement Massier: Art Nouveau Enameled Ceramic Plate (c. 1900)
ENAMELED CERAMIC PLATE REPRESENTING MONT FUJI, CIRCA 1900 CLEMENT MASSIER (1844-1917), Height: 42 cm. (16 ½ in.); Length: 30.5 cm. (11 ¾ in.)Origin: House of Art Nouveau Samuel Bing, Paris., Source: Christie’s Bing Who? Samuel Siegfried Bing (1838 – 1905), who usually gave his name as S. Bing (not to be confused with his brother,…
At Sunnyside - Where Truth and Beauty Meet 