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Bertha Wegmann, Portrait Painter Extraordinaire

See More Women artists At Sunnyside Bertha Wegmann at wikimedia Bertha Wegmann at Christie’s Bertha Wegmann at Artnet Bertha Wegmann at The Hirschsprung Collection Read More Bertha Wegmann at wikiwand How Bertha Wegmann communicated the 19th-century female experience Thanks for Visiting 🌻 ~Sunnyside

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…

International Women’s Day 2024

Music at a Glance Read More How Bertha Wegmann communicated the 19th-century female experience Bertha Wegmann at wikiwand See More Women artists At Sunnyside Bertha Wegmann at wikimedia Bertha Wegmann at Christie’s Bertha Wegmann at Artnet Bertha Wegmann at The Hirschsprung Collection Hear More Raphaela Gromes on youtube Thanks for Visiting 🌻 ~Sunnyside

Schubert: Adagio in E-flat Major, D.897

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Vincent Van Gogh: Une liseuse de romans

“Van Gogh painted the canvas in mid-November, during the fourth week of Gauguin’s stay at Arles. A period of bad weather had descended upon the region, and the two painters were forced to work indoors. On November 10th, Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo, “We are having wind and rain here, and I am…

Jean-Honoré Fragonard: Young Girl Reading

‘A Young Girl Reading’ The Rococo painting by French artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard (c.1770) features an unidentified young woman wearing a rich, saffron-yellow dress with glowing, white ruff, collar, and cuffs; lavender ribbons accent her bodice, neck and hair. Shown in profile, she is reading from a small book with reddish gilt edging held in her…