Vincent letters to Emile Bernard [manuscript]

“Painted With Words: Vincent van Gogh’s Letters to Émile Bernard” at the Morgan Library & Museum, a display of manuscripts, also includes nearly two dozen paintings and drawings, half of them by van Gogh, including a splendid self-portrait.
It was done before he moved south. With his red hair and beard, taciturn lips and untrusting eyes, you already know him on sight. And you will come to know him in some depth in a show that is itself a self-portrait in many parts.
— Holland Cotter


Vincent van Gogh wrote some 800 letters in his lifetime. This letter was written on March 18, 1888 to Emile Bernard, whom he treated as a younger brother and mentee.

Olive Trees

"Self Portrait: Three Quarters to the Right, Paris" (1887)

Link to: Lady Lever Art Gallery

Vase and lid
Qing dynasty (1644 – 1911), c. 1780 – 1830
Jade (nephrite), 35.6 x 23 x 8.5cm
Accession Number LL70

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ladylever/collections/chinaart.asp

'Landscape of the Moon's last phase' 1943/44

Paul Nash Estate

Liverpool Visual Arts

• liverpool08.com/LiverpoolArts/Visual_Arts/

Liverpool Museun of Art

• http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ladylever/collections/wedgwood/

Liverpool The Center of Culture

BBC News Video w/ Sir Paul McCartney

Macca, Ringo & Dodd invites to 'Pool party

blogs.guardian.co.uk/theatre

Caravaggio Oct 17-Feb 1, 2008

Caravaggio

digital finger painting ll

carly woman

digital finger painting l

angst

digital finger painting

nellie belle

Fruits

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci
Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo
Between 1503 and 1506
©
Musée du Louvre/A. Dequier - M. Bard

Picasso A portrait of woman w/ a red hat

Les Trois Femmes

Vienna Museum shows off monumental gift

Assume Vivid Astro Focus, "Abra Vana Alucinete Fogo" (2006) Source:
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Claude Monet

The Path through the Irises by Claude Monet, 1917

The Farm - Renoir 1914

Garden-in-Rue-Cortot-Montmartre

A young-Spanish-woman-with-a-guitar by Renoir + Vermeer's work

RENOIR -IMPRESSIONIST- The Blue River 1900

Biography

Jeremiah lamenting the destruction of Jerusalem

Rembrandt van Rijn Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

1630 Oil on panel

BathSheba - Musée du Louvre, Paris

Rembrandt van Rijn

1654 Oil on canvas

Bathsheba at Her Bath

REMBRANDT BAROQUE MASTER

Greek Myth Danae'
by James Hunter

Danae was the daughter of Acrisius. An oracle warned Acrisius that Danae's son would someday kill him, so Acrisius shut Danae in a bronze room, away from all male company. However, Zeus conceived a passion for Danae, and came to her through the roof, in the form of a shower of gold that poured down into her lap; as a result she had a son, Perseus. When Acrisius discovered Perseus, he locked both mother and son in a chest, and set it adrift on the sea. The chest came ashore at Seriphus, where Danae and Perseus were welcomed. Later, King Polydectes of Seriphus fell in love with Danae and tried to force himself on her; he was eventually killed by Perseus.

For Mother Julia

Madonna and Child

Source:

• http://www.whitfieldfineart.com/WHITFIELD_FINE_ART/home.html

Pompeo Batoni

Pompeo Batoni is the prince of painters in eighteenth-century Rome. His works are on view from October 21, 2007 to January 27, 2008 at Houston Museum .

Pompeo Batoni was the most celebrated painter in Rome in his day. The American painter Benjamin West, who lived in Italy in 1760—63, said, "When I went to Rome, the Italian artists of that day thought of nothing, looked at nothing, but the work of Pompeo Batoni." For nearly half a century Batoni recorded the visits to Rome of international travelers on the Grand Tour in portraits that remain among the most memorable artistic accomplishments of the period. Equally gifted as a history painter, his religious and mythological works were eagerly acquired by the greatest patrons and collectors in Britain and on the Continent. Read more...
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Houston Museum

I just couldn't wait for Spring...

Beautiful Cherry Blossoms

In Memory Of Those Who Perished on 9-11

September 11, 2001

"In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."

Time Magazine

Thousands Celebrate Pavarotti’s Art and Humanity

MODENA, Italy, Sept. 8 — Luciano Pavarotti, the Italian tenor, was eulogized today as a “great artist” with “a profound sense of humanity” in the same cathedral where he once sang in the children’s choir.

During a musical career that spanned nearly 50 years, Mr. Pavarotti, who died near here on Thursday at 71, successfully bridged highbrow and pop culture. After decades on the world’s greatest opera stages, he began performing in concert stadiums belting out operatic arias flanked by some of the planet’s biggest pop stars. Read more...

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New York Times

BBC News on: Timeline: Luciano Pavarotti 1935 -2007

Rest In Peace. Resto nella pace.

Luciano Pavarotti's farewell tour two years ago brought the famous tenor to theatres and concert halls from Iceland to New Zealand.

The tenor was due to play in New Zealand late in 2005, and a single interview had been granted to a daily paper. It led to me travelling to Merano, in the Italian Alps, for an audience with the world's best-known tenor.

To a music writer more used to interviewing indie bands in central London watering holes, it was a glimpse into a far more genteel arm of the music business, and the respect the classical world afforded living legends like the man dubbed "Maestro".

Preparations for the interview took weeks to sort out.

There were rumours it may take place in London. Then it would be at Pavarotti's home in Modena (I had my fingers crossed it would be over one of Pavarotti's legendary lunches).

Finally, management decided, it would be at his favourite spa, a hotel in the Tyrolean hideaway, near the Austrian border.

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Per la mia più cara madre.Ti amo per sempre…Il dio è con voi.


Video from BBC News

'Taste of the Arts' Festival 2007

LEGEND maintains that in 1918 Picasso lashed out at his dealer, saying, “Le marchand - voilà l’ennemi!” As Picasso, a shrewd operator, knew only too well, dealers can be aggravatingly powerful. They are the saints of the art world—supporting struggling artists, shining a light on unacknowledged genius, exemplifying the highest standards of scholarship and connoisseurship; and also the sinners, accused of every possible skulduggery in pursuit of a higher price for their artists and a higher profit for themselves.

The dealer who bore the brunt of Picasso’s wrath was called Léonce Rosenberg. His silent partner at the time, in what was to become an historic deal with the artist, was Georges Wildenstein.

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