This One, I Like! Florentine artist Federico Andreotti’s usual painting style of “elaborate period dress and affected airs… sometimes described as Rococo Revival” [1] does NOT appeal to me in general. However, Gypsy Beauty, is undeniably captivating and is the creation of a talented artist. Andreotti successfully captures the quiet joy of this dark haired…
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Gyula Benczúr: Reading Woman in the Forest (1875)
A Popular Motif Gyula Benczúr (1844 – 1920) was a Hungarian painter and art teacher who specialized in portraits and historical scenes. Around 1874-1875, Benczúr tried to capture the form-dissolving effect of light in several compositions, but he resumed his course by wholly discarding plein air painting. As his letter reveals, he exhibited the…
Edgar Degas: The Entrance of the Masked Dancers (1879)
Connection: Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’ According to ClarkArt.edu, “Unlike many of Degas’s ballet scenes, which combine details from sketches made at different times, this pastel relates to a specific production of Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’. The viewpoint is that of an abonné, a subscriber with privileged access, like the top-hatted gentleman on the far side of the…
Emily Carr: War Canoes, Alert Bay (1912)
The Audain Art Museum’s Permanent Collection of nearly 200 works of art is a visual journey through the history of art from coastal British Columbia. Spanning from the 18th century to present day, the Collection contains one of the world’s finest collections of Northwest Coast First Nations masks; a large collection of works by…
Emily Carr: Forest Glade
“I sat staring, staring, staring – half lost, learning a new language, or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.” -Emily Carr See Full Biography: Emily Carr: Who Is She?
Segna di Buonaventura: Saint Benedict (1320s)
‘Saint Benedict’ Artist: Segna di Buonaventura (Italian, active Siena by 1298–died 1326/31) Date: 1320s Medium: Tempera on wood, gold ground Dimensions: Overall, with framing elements, 49 x 20 7/8 in. (124.5 x 53 cm); Saint Benedict, painted surface 27 7/8 x 16 in. (70.8 x 40.6 cm); pinnacle, painted surface 10 1/4 x 15 3/8…
Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta: Girls at a Window (c.1875)
Click for enlarged detail: Did you spot the binoculars? 😎 Details Girls at a Window ca. 1875 Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta (Spanish, Rome 1841–1920 Versailles) European Paintings Medium: Oil on canvas Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436928 Thanks for Reading! 🙂 The…
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,…
Mitsuko Uchida: Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37
Incredible pianist! ❤️ Universally acclaimed pianist Mitsuko Uchida plays the Beethoven Piano Concerto # 3 in C minor with The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with Mariss Jansons conducting. Music Detail Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mariss Jansons conducting. Mitsuko Uchida, piano I first saw…
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: At the Moulin Rouge -The Dance (1890)
On a Crowded Dance Hall, Paris, 1890 At the Moulin Rouge, the Dance is an oil-on-canvas painted by French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in 1890, the second of a number of graphic paintings by Toulouse-Lautrec depicting the Moulin Rouge cabaret. Built in Paris in 1889, the cabaret portrays two dancers dancing the can-can in the middle…
Edward Bannister: Boston Street Scene (1898-99)
Who Is Edward Mitchell Bannister? Edward Mitchell Bannister (1828 –1901) was a Black Canadian–American Tonalist painter. Like other Tonalists, his style and predominantly pastoral subject matter were drawn from his admiration for Millet and the French Barbizon School. In fact, Bannister’s work often reflects the composition, mood, and influences of French Barbizon painters including Jean-Baptiste-Camille…
Edouard Vuillard: Madame Hessel at Home (c.1908)
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Details Title: Madame Hessel at Home Creator: Edouard Vuillard Date: c. 1908 Physical Dimensions: w68.6 x h71.1 cm (without frame) Credit Line: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, gift of Audrey Jones Beck Type: Painting Medium: Oil on board Click for larger view: Image credit: Google…
Adolfo Tommasi: Petriolo near Florence (1884)
Click for Enlarged Image Details Owner/Location: Private collection Dates: 1884 Artist age: Approximately 33 years old. Dimensions: Height: 99 cm (38.98 in.), Width: 201.5 cm (79.33 in.) Medium: Painting – oil on canvas Image Credit Adolfo Tommasi, Petriolo near Florence, (1884) source: The Athenaeum. Thanks for Visiting! 🙂 The End
Edouard Manet: The Balcony (1868-1869)
When Manet painted this piece, scenes of bourgeois life were in vogue, yet The Balcony went against the conventions of the day. The painting tells no story or anecdote; the protagonists are frozen, as if isolated in an interior dream, evidence that Manet was freeing himself from academic constraints, despite the obvious reference to Majas on the Balcony by Francisco Goya,
Maurice Brazil Prendergast: Portrait of a Girl with Flowers (1913)
Click for Enlarged Image Details Title: Portrait of a Girl with Flowers Artist: Maurice Brazil Prendergast (American, St. John’s, Newfoundland 1858–1924 New York) Date: ca. 1910–13 Medium: Oil on canvas Credit Line: Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876–1967), 1967 Read More Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History At Sunnyside: Maurice Prendergast: Biography and Central…
Maurice Brazil Prendergast: Picnic by the Inlet (ca. 1918–23)
Details: Picnic by the Inlet by Maurice Brazil Prendergast (ca. 1918–23) American Paintings and Sculpture Medium: Oil on canvas Gift of Margaret and Raymond J. Horowitz, 1996 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the-met-art http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/15587 Click to view enlarged: Thanks for visiting! The End
Suzanne Valadon: Still Life (1922)
Still Life – Suzanne Valadon , 1922. French,1865-1938 oil on canvas, 18 3/8 x 15 1/8 in. 46.67 x 38.42 cm. Via: huariqueje
Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky: Still Life (1920)
Still Life, 1920, Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky Via: artist-belsky
Emily Carr: Untitled forest scene (c1932)
Emily Carr: On Jungles, January 1, 1936: “I painted one of the thick jungle sketches. Perhaps I am getting “junglier.” They won’t be popular. Few people know the jungle, or care about it or want to understand it. An organized tumult of growth, that’s what those thick undergrowth woods are, and yet there is…
Cabinet with personifications of the Five Senses, 17th Century
What Is Stumpwork? “Raised work, or stumpwork as it is sometimes called, developed in England during the early seventeenth century, and was characterized by its high relief. The technique was used to create pictures and to decorate objects such as storage boxes for jewelry and writing supplies, baskets, and mirror frames. This box is typical…
Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky: Portrait of a Peasant
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Harriet Powers’s Bible Quilt (1885-1886)
Who Is Harriet Powers? According to the National Museum of American History, “Harriet Powers, an African American farm woman of Clarke County, Georgia, made this quilt in about 1886. She exhibited it at the Athens Cotton Fair of 1886 where it captured the imagination of Jennie Smith, a young internationally-trained local artist. Of her discovery,…
Santiago Rusiñol: Sitges Interior (c1894)
Click for Enlarged Detail Slideshow best viewed At Sunnyside Details Title: Sitges Interior Creator: Santiago Rusiñol Date Created: Around 1894 External Link: Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya Medium: Oil on canvas Image credit: Google Arts and Culture Thanks for Visiting 🙂 ~Sunnyside
Elusive – Haiku out of Africa by Lize Bard
mysteries of life ~ keep us looking for answers ~ never to be found © Lize Bard @ https://wandererhaiku.wordpress.com/ via Elusive — Haiku out of Africa
Jacobus ‘Jack’ Hamel: Damrak Amsterdam (c.1938)
Damrak Amsterdam – Jacobus Gerardus ‘Jack’ Hamel , c.1938 Dutch, 1890-1951 Oil on canvas, 61 x 80 cm Via: huariqueje
Jacobus ‘Jack’ Hamel: Damrak in Amsterdam, view of St. Nicholas Church (1930)
The Damrak in Amsterdam with a view of St. Nicholas Church – Jacobus Gerardus ‘Jack’ Hamel,1930 Dutch, 1890-1951 oil on canvas , 50.3 x 60.0 cm Via: huariqueje
Delight: Haiku out of Africa by Lize Bard
this is finding bliss ~ in ordinary places ~ because we are there © Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa via Delight — Haiku out of Africa
At Sunnyside - Where Truth and Beauty Meet 