Posted on 04/01/2018 9:56:01 AM PDT by mairdie
For IronJack. Mozart's Symphony 33 in A, KV319 - 3, Menuetto. John Elliot Gardner.
Roughly chronological. Consider it a small bite of art history. A child prodigy, Millais was sent to art school at the age of 9 and entered Academic training at 11. At that young age, he was already winning awards for his figures and his composition. His portraiture includes a wide range of political, religious and noble figures. He was made a Baronet for his work.
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Excellent, as always. Thanks.
Hope you are having a happy Easter.
Beautiful.
I’m so glad you liked it!
Easter has been interesting. Went to meet friends for brunch and got TOTALLY lost. But, luckily, the friends discovered while waiting that the brunch wouldn’t work for the lactose intolerant friend, so we turned around and headed to ANOTHER restaurant. And got lost going to THAT one, too! But finally got there for a fantastic brunch. Hope you did better than hard-boiled eggs!
I’m so very glad you liked it. Thank you.
Good job, Mairdie. I liked it, especially with Mozart’s symphony played by a period orchestra (I am guessing from JEG, it is the English Baroque Soloists), which goes well with the paintings.
And Happy Easter.
Many thanks, nw. Much appreciated. The other option was
Bach-Gustav-Leonhardt-Herbert-Tachezi
Cembalokonzerte-BWV-1052-1057-1064
04-!!!-Konzert-F-Dur-BWV-1057-I-Allegro.wav
But it’s 7 minutes long and it’s really hard to hold an audience that long. I’d need something different than a simple chronological exhibition. But that piece has the same light feel that would have worked.
The way we work, husband transfers our CDs to the file system and I have limited info in the file names. All I have is that the CD included Symphonies 29 and 33. They’re piled into boxes after transferring, so not easy to look it up. Apologies.
I want to do something with the Academic school and I’m wandering through Carolus-Duran and Edouard Joseph Dantan and William-Adolphe Bouguereau just now. Nudes don’t go over here very well, but I was raised on them so I adore them. Though when I took life sketching, I’ll admit it was VERY difficult to draw while staring at the ceiling. Also when the model stands behind you with almost nothing on. They have to keep their muscles tensed through the entire sketching session so you get delineation, so it’s VERY difficult work.
I already have my project created for the Surrealism school but, for some reason, I’m not as excited about it as I thought I’d be. Maybe I’m still reacting to discovering the Art Institute sold my absolutely FAVORITE painting of Village of the Mermaids.
And what can anyone say about Mozart that hasn't already been said?
Thank you for the work. Very nice.
You’re most welcome. I learned a lot. Thank you for suggesting him. As for Mozart, husband reminded me that the video is composed of the work of TWO child prodigies.
I’m so sorry about Sophy. That’s so very sad. I hope she felt she had done something important in posing for that painting.
She’s actually in several of Millais’ works. Look for her face; she was one of his favorite models.
http://fannycornforth.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-portraits-of-sophia-gray.html
She’s beautiful and, yes, her paintings haunted me, too, as I worked on this. I’m so sorry to know that her life wasn’t happy.
For the Surrealism project, do you have the music picked out? If not, I can recommend something if you like.
Actually, I do. I’m using Joan Baez’s version of Villa-Lobos, Bachianas Brasileiras. It’s a match for strangeness, and is about the right length. It might not be the best rendition, but it has sentimental value to me. I’m looking at Edward Hopper, Giorgio de Chirico, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Paul Delvaux, Salvador Dali and Yves Tanguy, for sure. Some others will probably pop up.
I’ve just been collecting Carolus-Duran and not very happy with what I’m finding. Might deep-six him.
But, by all means, make your suggestion. It might work out somewhere else.
Carolus-Duran is dumped. I’m doing Lawrence Alma-Tadema.
bump
Another suggestion for surreal art is the Masquerade Waltz by Aram Khachaturian. Great mid-century music from the 20th century, with a strange, mysterious, ironic vibe...
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