“Painted in late summer of 1888, Paul Gauguin’s Pêcheur et baigneurs sur l’Aven depicts a fisherman and several intrepid bathers on the shallow banks of the River Aven in Brittany. The human figures in the scene are utterly dwarfed by the colorful landscape that surrounds them…This vivid, evocative painterly landscape represents a crucial turning point…
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Thomas Moran: Grand Canal, Venice
“Executed twenty years after his first visit in 1886, the present work is further evidence of his prolonged interest in Venetian subject matter. Enthralled by the colors and light of this Italian city, Moran often anchored his Venetian subjects with recognizable architecture. The white domes of Santa Maria della Salute, along with the campanile of…
Home Free: How Great Thou Art
Hat Tip Many thanks to Linda at Lagniappe (shoreacres) for introducing me to this musical group in the post Songs for a Month of Sundays ~ Home Free. See More Peder Mork Monsted At Sunnyside Peder Mork Monsted at Sotheby’s Peder Mork Monsted at Christie’s Peder Mork Monsted at wikimedia commons Read More Peder Mork Monsted…
Peder Mork Mönsted: Winter Landscape, Odnes-Valdres
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Rick Stevens Exhibition: In the Company of Trees
Rick Stevens: In the Company of Trees Exhibition at Kay Contemporary Art Santa Fe, New Mexico October 4-21, 2024 “My work goes quite representational to quite abstract. This stylistic range provides me opportunity to approach it from a variety of angles. Having an abstract painter’s eye when I’m painting landscapes helps in maintaining a freedom…
Thomas Moran: Grand Canyon
“Thomas Moran first visited the Grand Canyon in 1873 alongside famed explorer John Wesley Powell. The breathtaking views of the vast chasm undoubtedly captured the artist’s attention, as he would revisit the natural site on multiple occasions throughout his life and even wrote, “Of all places on earth the great canyon of Arizona is the…
Henrik Goldschmidt: Gabriel’s Oboe (Morricone)
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Claude Monet: The Basin at Argenteuil (c. 1872)
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Mozart: Piano Quartet in E Flat Major K 493
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Lucas & Arthur Jussen: Lebensstürme (Schubert)
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LSO Clarinet Trio Plays Mozart
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Tessarini: Flute Sonatas, Op. 12
“Carlo Tessarini da Rimini (c.1690–c.1767) is one of the ‘forgotten generation’ of Italian Baroque masters who made their name and sometimes their fortune outside their native land. Tessarini was popular in England and the Netherlands, where both the public and publishers rated him on a par with Vivaldi and Albinoni.” Brilliant Classics See More Hugo…
Peder Mønsted: Winter Day in Charlottenlund Forest
Of the piece, Lang Lang says: “For me it is very romantic, and light, like a feather. It has to come from nowhere and it has to touch people. It can’t just be treated as background music. I’ve tried to play the piece as the masterpiece that it is, and I hope that children who…
Frederic Edwin Church: Cotopaxi (1862)
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Mozart: Piano Quartet in E Flat Major K 493
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Vivaldi: Concerto in D Major RV 212
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Bach: Concerto for 4 Pianos in A Minor
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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…
Paul Gauguin: Autumn in Brittany
“Fleeing what he felt was the overly civilized and decadent environment of Paris, Paul Gauguin lived periodically in the remote and rugged Brittany region of northwestern France. In works such as this, he sought to convey traditional village life, which he considered an antidote to the ills of modern society. Unlike the Impressionists, Gauguin did…
John Constable: The Hay Wain (1821)
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Willard Leroy Metcalf: May Pastoral (1907)
Happy Birthday, dear one! You are loved today and every day. ❤️❤️❤️ “Critics lauded Willard Leroy Metcalf for his ability to capture the spirit of the New England landscape in a uniquely American style. In May Pastoral, Metcalf conveys the quiet energy of spring in a realistic depiction of the Old Lyme, Connecticut countryside. The…
Henri Martin: L’Eglise de Labastide-du-Vert
“Rare As Precious Stones” “If I look at a fragment of Henri Martin’s canvas… I immediately recognize it. I see a great number of dots of different colors, as precious and rare as precious stones. His palette is an enchantment. Many different interminglings of colors make a rare and rich harmony… And it is much more difficult…
Mela Muter: The Port of Collioure (mid-1920s)
Who Is Mela Muter? Mela Muter is the pseudonym used by Maria Melania Mutermilch (1876 – 1967), the first professional Jewish painter in Poland. Although she lived most of her life in France, she was born Maria Melania Kingsland in Warsaw, Poland, daughter of a wealthy Jewish merchant. After her marriage, Muter moved from Poland to…
Isaac Levitan: Golden Autumn (1895)
Isaac Ilyich Levitan (1860 – 1900) was a classical Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of the “mood landscape”. Click for Enlarged Detail Slideshow best viewed At Sunnyside Sources: Wikimedia Commons contributors, “File:Levitan Zolotaya Osen.jpg,” Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Levitan_Zolotaya_Osen.jpg&oldid=319803217 (accessed October 27, 2018). Wikipedia contributors, “Isaac Levitan,” Wikipedia, The…
Eric Sloane: Barn in the Valley
Click for Enlarged Image: Best viewed At Sunnyside To be auctioned November 8: Eric Sloane, Barn in the Valley.Oil on Masonite, 17-1/2 x 22-3/4 inches (44.5 x 57.8 cm), Signed, image source: MutualArt: https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Barn-in-the-Valley/9B9F8C2531AAE839 Thanks for visiting! 🙂 The End
Rudolf Koller: Outing on the Forest’s Edge
Who Is Rudolf Koller? Rudolf Koller (Swiss, 1828-1905) is considered one of Switzerland’s finest animal painters associated with a realist and classicist style, and also with Düsseldorf school of painting.[2] Koller’s style is similar to that of the realist painters Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. Click for Enlarged Image Slideshow best viewed At Sunnyside …
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