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George Romney (1734-1802) - Portraits - Beethoven - Berliner Philharmoniker - Karajan
YouTube ^ | 4 March 2020 | MVD

Posted on 03/04/2020 3:03:32 PM PST by mairdie

George Romney was a British portrait artist (1734-1802). The music is Beethoven's Symphony 2, D-major, Opus-36, 2nd movement, Larghetto. Performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker, Karajan conducting. Roughly chronological.


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: finearts; georgeromney; musicvideos; portraits
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To: miss marmelstein

People kept trying to help her out, but she wouldn’t lower her standard of living and was constantly in major debt.


21 posted on 03/04/2020 3:40:00 PM PST by mairdie (Garden Song - David Mallett - Tricia's Father - https://youtu.be/6em7IGrWaco)
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To: mairdie

Doing it yourself is usually the best way to learn, especially when you have enough time to learn from any “mistakes”.


22 posted on 03/04/2020 3:40:37 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Hyman Roth
Related to Mittens?

He's good with an Etch-a-Sketch.

23 posted on 03/04/2020 3:42:30 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: mairdie

I just asked my husband to screen That Hamilton Women for us tonight with the equally gorgeous Vivian Leigh. Yes she had many faults but has provided us with so much beauty.


24 posted on 03/04/2020 3:43:59 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Prayers for Rush)
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To: mairdie
Thanks for posting this. Ludwig's second is often neglected, but despite being overshadowed by his epic next Symphony, this youthful Op. 36 is already far more adventurous than anything by Papa Haydn.

Please do a video of the 1rst movement of this youthful Schubert Symphony - another work in transition from early style to his mature Romanticism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdLuvGsjwlA

25 posted on 03/04/2020 3:51:06 PM PST by Sirius Lee (They are openly stating that they intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live.)
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To: mairdie

Magnificent! Thanks for posting.


26 posted on 03/04/2020 3:53:05 PM PST by NRx (A man of honor passes his father's civilization to his son without surrendering it to strangers.)
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To: mairdie

Turner was the master. As a composer I did a suite of music based on Turners paintings. Can give a link to the music if anyone intrested


27 posted on 03/04/2020 3:59:30 PM PST by BigEdLB (BigEdLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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To: mairdie

I figured as much because you know whereof you speak. My wife is an art major but I am not so much!


28 posted on 03/04/2020 4:13:44 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: mairdie

Beautiful blend of music and portraiture. I felt myself transported back to the late 18th century.


29 posted on 03/04/2020 4:15:41 PM PST by Blennos
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To: mairdie

Delecto’s great grandfather or something? Who cares?


30 posted on 03/04/2020 4:53:52 PM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: BigEdLB

>>Can give a link to the music if anyone intrested

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Best thing in the world are things created by Freepers. WONDERFUL!


31 posted on 03/04/2020 5:18:44 PM PST by mairdie (Garden Song - David Mallett - Tricia's Father - https://youtu.be/6em7IGrWaco)
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To: jmaroneps37

WAY WAY WAY FAR Back. Let me think. My ancestors in the mid 1700s are my 5th and 6th great grandparents. So they wouldn’t even recognize the wretch today.


32 posted on 03/04/2020 5:20:15 PM PST by mairdie (Garden Song - David Mallett - Tricia's Father - https://youtu.be/6em7IGrWaco)
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To: Blennos

Thank you.

What hits me and hurts is that he makes me connect with all of these people. I feel as though I’ve just met a generation and they’re all dead and I can never talk to them.


33 posted on 03/04/2020 5:30:33 PM PST by mairdie (Garden Song - David Mallett - Tricia's Father - https://youtu.be/6em7IGrWaco)
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To: miss marmelstein

I love that movie so much!


34 posted on 03/04/2020 5:48:02 PM PST by stylecouncilor (Dreg of Society)
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To: mairdie

Thank you so much for this!

You are reducing my ignorance one video at a time. Ha.

I’ve never heard of this guy as far as I can recall. (G Romney, not Beethoven. B I’ve heard of!) I’m undecided on whether I like him as an artist. I may have to watch a few more times. What I did find interesting was the variety of poses and backgrounds and props. Some seemed especially odd and I kind of liked the “oddness”. Like the guy with some of his buttons unbuttoned. I like that the portraits weren’t “formulaic”.


35 posted on 03/04/2020 9:03:23 PM PST by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: mairdie

bump


36 posted on 03/05/2020 2:07:21 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Party that freed sIaves, passed Civil Rights is called racist by the party that started the KKK.)
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To: generally

>>I like that the portraits weren’t “formulaic”.

Absolutely! There are wrinkles in the pants. The subject leans on anything within reach. Ugly people stay ugly but seem mostly rather pleasant. The background is detailed. The background is what will eventually become impressionist art.

He HIRED! another artist to do horses in his later portraits, though I think his early study was fine. He did the dogs himself. He had a spaniel in his studio and if someone didn’t bring their own dog, they could add his spaniel as they could add a piece of sculpture that keeps popping up. And who doesn’t love someone who loves dogs?

Sometimes his faces are perfect. Sometimes it feels like someone needs to teach him perspective. On the other hand, he studies in Rome and has had long looks at mannerism which, almost like Picasso, believes bodies can be creatively depicted.

And then he paints Emma Hart/Hamilton and you see real love shouting out from the canvas.

By the way, like someone with curly hair who wants straight hair, he is bored to death with portrait painting and always wants to be an historical scene painter, though he’s really not up to it. When he becomes ill in later life, he retires to do that. And dies insane. Wish someone wrote more about that.

So glad you’re having fun. I am!


37 posted on 03/05/2020 3:13:37 AM PST by mairdie (Garden Song - David Mallett - Tricia's Father - https://youtu.be/6em7IGrWaco)
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To: mairdie

A painter unknown to me, thank you very much.


38 posted on 03/05/2020 6:54:00 AM PST by etabeta
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To: etabeta

EXACTLY the reason I did him first rather than Lawrence or Gainsborough. I collected a set of 4 portrait artists of the same time period, then spent time looking through all of them multiple times until one turned me on, and that turned out to be Romney. I “connected” better with the people in his portraits. I’m thinking of trying Lawrence next as the contrast. He’s the better painter and was president of the academy, where Romney knew better than to even APPLY for the academy.


39 posted on 03/05/2020 8:50:44 AM PST by mairdie (Garden Song - David Mallett - Tricia's Father - https://youtu.be/6em7IGrWaco)
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To: mairdie

I really enjoyed this selection of portraits. This painter with the retroactively unfortunate name certainly had a great gift for drapery, draftsmanship and form; a little less so for composition., but not bad.

I loved how he was unstinting about depicting some flaws, like poochy tummies on many of the men, but pushed his highlighting of other things like female complexions, buzoomies and gauzy white garments to an almost chiaroscuro ideal, bordering on abstraction. The mother and child portraits were affectively lovely.

I also enjoyed the range of styles, from tight to sketchy and dauby in what I assume is some of the later finished work.

He looked rather ghey in his young self-portrait, as did many of his male subjects; but it was an ambiguously fashionable era, so who knows? (To quote Fred Armisen quoting Joy Behar, “So what, who cares?”) He looked more solid in his older selfie.

Lovely presentation, mairdie, thanks.


40 posted on 03/05/2020 8:53:16 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Party that freed sIaves, passed Civil Rights is called racist by the party that started the KKK.)
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