PREVIEW OF VANLENTINE’S DAY ART, MUSIC, AND LOVE If music be the food of love, play on. William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night Was Richard Bergh (1858-1919), a popular Swedish artist in his day, thinking of William Shakespeare’s immortal words in his work After the Sitting? Romance is also the theme of what is considered Bergh’s most popular painting, Nordic […]
Click on the painting to enlarge or enhance it. GOLDEN MELODIES IN ART WOMAN WITH A LUTE Thou art my lute, by thee I sing,— My being is attuned to thee. Thou settest all my words-a-wing, And meltest me to melody. Paul Laurence Dunbar Italian Baroque painter Orazio Gentileschi (1563-1639) has recently […]
THE MUSIC HOUR A CHILD’S WORLD When you play, never mind who listens to you. Robert Schumann, Advice to Young Musicians The doors of Swedish artist Carl Larsson’s home Lilla Hyttnas are open every summer to visitors from around the world. Compared at times to American painter and illustrator Norman Rockwell, Larsson’s endearing […]
WHISTLER’S POETRY IN WHITE THE GIRL BEFORE THE MIRROR When a painting becomes a poem…….. I write a word to leave in case I find you gone out. Here are the verse (BEFORE THE MIRROR), written the first thing after breakfast…… I know it was entirely and only suggested to me by the […]
Click on the work of art to enlarge it. Vaslav Nijinsky has often been acknowledged as one of the greatest dancers in history; unfortunately he performed when film was in its infancy so footage generally does not exist of his extraordinary talent today. However, artist Leon Bakst’s costume design for […]
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