Posted on 01/20/2018 1:13:46 PM PST by mairdie
And to go with the Van Gogh art video I put up earlier, I also put into the art playlist the Dr Who video "Vincent" and the Star Trek "Vincent" that shows Leonard Nimoy as Spock and in his one man show, playing Vincent's brother Theo.
PING - paintings and drawings, rather than pure photography
Offenbach was an interesting character himself.
Don’t know anything about him. Interesting how? Sounds like fun.
Very nice, love the dog portraits, I don’t think I had ever seen those.
I’m very glad you liked it.
The dogs were some of his very early work. There’s another browner dog that’s almost unrecognizable that I didn’t use. But his horse work really comes through on his carriages and on his cavalry portraits. Also in his portrait of Napoleon astride. Couldn’t fit those in. I had forgotten just HOW classically trained he was.
He was a Prussian (!) Jew who sort of defined the background music of the belle epoque. Like the cancan music.
And who was at the center of the art and music and theater of the time.
A far more important fellow than he is given credit for these days.
I can easily put up any of the paintings from the video if you describe what you want to see. They’re all much larger than shown on this thread so can be seen full size by holding your cursor over the picture and (on my system) right-clicking View Image.
Nazi: Shall I bring out the LeRoy Neiman paintings, Mein General?
General: We can’t risk violating the Geneva Convention!
Amazing horses, and lots of motion/action suggested with the dog.
Clearly a music lover!
I’m looking for music, suggestions welcomed, for videos on:
Rousseau
Bouguereau
Parrish
Tiffany
Beardsley
Rossetti
Currently thinking Chariots of Fire for Turner.
Not just the swirls in the fur, the body is taut in a posture about to move, and the background swirls everywhere. Massive motion in a single moment. There’s very subtle horizontal and vertical slashes that keep you moving in the picture, without letting you escape.
Even the startled open eye of the horse on the right. I’m finding a lot of subtle eye movements in the paintings. For example, the music conductor’s eyes are fixed under the dancer’s skirt. And sometimes he’ll use half-closed eyes.
Yes, there’s a lot going on in every one. Under appreciated.
Rousseau with Debussy's "Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un faun" or "Ravel's "Daphnis et Chloe" - it sounds like dawn in a tropical paradise. Also Scriabin's "The Poem of Ecstasy". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvnRC7tSX50 Birds a twitter and sensuality abound.
Bouguereau I'd go with Antonin Dvorak - Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81, 2nd Movement (Dumka). I see a touch of sadness in all those peasant faces. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-r4fmPeJuo
Mayfield Parrish is harder to pin down. He's all over the map - very jocund and theatrical, but can be etherial, too. Edvard Grieg has this covered. Grieg - Holberg Suite, Op. 40 (''From Holberg's Time") The outer movements are festive, Whereas the slow movement is geared more towards the landscapes and the half nekkid ladies sitting around not doing anything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPfxfO4NG1E
Tiffany. I got nuttin',
Beardsley - Igor Stravinsky - "Pulcinella" Suite. Seriously. Sirius Lee. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_ydaNBLzww
Rossetti - some folks might be tempted to think Wagner as with the other Pre-Raphaeites, but not me. He specialized in tragic redheads. And although Jacqueline du Pre was not technically a redhead, she did die tragically young, but not before performing Elgar's Cello Concerto. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPhkZW_jwc0&t=1313s
Try not to cry.
NEVER APOLOGIZE FOR JOINING IN!!!
I visualize these threads as a large, round coffee table with everyone sitting around drinking something. (My beverage is hot chocolate. Brrr.) And everyone is glancing around as each person speaks. Even when the talk gets personal, it’s all out in public so I assume people will join in where appropriate.
Now you’ve stopped me in my tracks with Afternoon of a Fawn. I listened to that maybe three hours ago and dismissed it. But I respect you, so I went back and listened again. At first, all I could see was the detective from the mystery Laura, walking around her apartment when he thinks she’s dead, but this time I put up some of Rousseau’s paintings and, darn it, if you didn’t have something there!
So I’ll work my way through your list with pleasure and thank you.
Bouguereau. One of my absolute favorites. I fear I’ve been so swept away by his nudes I never noticed the peasants. But I don’t find sadness in their faces. Calmness, perhaps.
http://www.iment.com/maida/family/mother/vicars/williambouguereau.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William-Adolphe_Bouguereau
My middle name came to me from a poem my father wrote my mother about a character in a book by Beardsley - Suskind. She only showed me the book when I was an adult!
I will definitely work my way down your list.
And thank you.
Sincerely.
Please add me to your ping list. Thank you very much.
Art Heaven is creating a fascinating way of showing their stock. Though I would have expected they’d save Swan Lake for Degas.
I was raised in Chicago’s Art Institute, so many of the paintings were so very familiar.
Thanks for the link. Renoir would be somewhat down my list but I do think of him - and Monet. And Manet!
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