mercredi 29 mai 2013

Igor Stravinsky - le sacre du printemps Pina Bausch

Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971

Le sacre du Printemps


il y a 100 ans le 29 mai 1913 aux théatres des Champs Elysées à Paris,
scandale et émerveillement.

 

mardi 28 mai 2013

Rembrandt - Portrait D'Hendrickje Stoffels

Rembrandt 1606-1609

  Rembrandt - Portrait D'Hendrickje Stoffels, 1654-6

Rembrandt - Portrait D'Hendrickje Stoffels, 1654-6
Huile sur toile 
101,9 x 83,7 cm
                                                            National Gallery London

When Rembrandt painted this very intimate portrait of his lover Hendrickje Stoffels (link ), she was in trouble with the church. The Protestant church in Amsterdam denounced her as a loose woman for living with Rembrandt without being married. In this painting, he declares the depth of his love. It is at once sensual – wearing just a fur round her shoulders, she seems ready for bed – and soulful. It is truly an act of love, this hymn to Hendrickje’s inner and outer beauty.


 Rembrandt - Une femme se baignant dans le courant,1654

Rembrandt - Une femme se baignant dans le courant,1654
Huile sur toile 
61,8 x 47 cm
                                                            National Gallery London


This is an intimate moment in Rembrandt’s life with Hendrickje Stoffels. She became his mistress after the death of his wife Saskia( 1642), but Rembrandt could not remarry because it would jeopardise his inheritance from Saskia. He needed the money because his finances were a mess. When Rembrandt (who lavished cash on costumes for his portraits, curiosities for his collection and a fine house) went bankrupt, Hendrickje became his business representative.



Titien - la vénus d'Urbino

Titien 1488-1576



An agent for the Duke of Ferrara once wrote a letter – which survives – reporting to his master on the great Venetian painter Titian. Titian’s health is fine, he says, but he gets exhausted because he paints women in various poses then has sex with them. This rare glimpse of Titian’s studio life illuminates his nudes, which are painted from life and show his lust for beauty.


lundi 27 mai 2013

Mozart - Messe en ut mineur - K 427

Mozart 1756-1791
Messe en ut mineur K 427   (1783)


Il ne s’agit pas d’une œuvre de commande , mais plutôt d’une action de grâce , puisque Mozart s’était fait le serment d’écrire une messe, une fois marié avec Constance, qui venait de tomber malade (lettre à son père, Léopold du 4 janvier 1783).





M.Rostropovich - Haydn Cello Concerto No.1 C Major


 Haydn 1732-1809

Cello Concerto No.1 C Major


M.Rostropovich 1927-2007



Roy Lichtenstein - I love you,too,but... 1964

Roy Lichtenstein 1923-1997

 Roy Lichtenstein - I love you too, but...

Roy Lichtenstein - I love you, too, but...1964














mercredi 15 mai 2013

Le ruban blanc de Heineke - film complet en allemand

Michael Haneke 1942-...
Das Weisse Band / The White Ribbon / A Fita Branca / Le Rubanc Blanc / 2009

des images en noir et blanc magnifiques
un cinéaste qui rappelle  Bergman 1918-2007

Film complet en langue  allemande / sous-titres portugais.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpOwFLER47E

un extrait:








mardi 14 mai 2013

James Gillray - The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street in Danger

James Gillray 1757-1815


 The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street in Danger by James Gillray

The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street in Danger by James Gillray
 22 May 1797
You may know The Bank of England as The Old Lady, a name which was coined in a 1797 cartoon by James Gillray entitled Political Ravishment or The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street in Danger.
It attacks Prime Minister William Pitt The Younger and makes the suggestion that he has misused his power to get his hands on the bank’s reserves.


http://www.designweek.co.uk/whats-on/mocking-the-old-lady/3036463.article


Ariadne auf Naxos Karl Böhm Janowitz complet

Richard Strauss 1864-1949
Ariadne auf Naxos  1912 nouvelle version 1916







lundi 13 mai 2013

William Orpen

William Orpen  1878-1931

William Orpen - A Bloomsbury Family, 1907

William Orpen - A Bloomsbury Family, 1907

William Orpen - the red scarf

William Orpen - the red scarf
  • Oil on canvas, 91.4 x 71.1 cm



John Constable - Hampstead Heath

John Constable 1776-1837

 John Constable - Hampstead Heath

Hampstead Heath

by John Constable

 John Constable - Hove beach


John Constable - Hove beach


samedi 11 mai 2013

William Hogarth - Mary Edwards

William Hogarth 1697-1764
Mary Edwards 1742

 William Hogarth. Mary Edwards. 1742

William Hogarth. Mary Edwards. 1742.
Oil on canvas
 The Frick Collection, New York, USA.

Mary Edwards (1705–43), one of the richest women of her time, repudiated her marriage to an extravagant husband, although this was tantamount to declaring her son illegitimate.
She was Hogarth’s friend and arguably his most significant patron during the decade 1733–43. The monumental portrait of Miss Edwards, wearing magnificent jewels and a striking red dress, is a masterpiece in the series of Hogarth’s commanding middle-class portraits, which includes the famous Captain Coram. The open scroll prominently displayed beside the subject champions the virtues of liberty and property that she would have appreciated as manager of a great fortune.

lundi 6 mai 2013

Perilous Question by Antonia Fraser


Perilous Question by Antonia Fraser





The House of Commons, 1833
by Sir George Hayter
oil on canvas, 1833-1843
213 3/8 in. x 136 1/4 in. x 5 3/8 in. (5420 mm x 3460 mm x 135 mm)
Given by H.M. Government, 1858
National Portrait Gallery in London

Reform Act 1832

The Act increased the electorate from 478,000 to 813,000 out of a total population of 24 million; industrial cities such as Manchester, Sheffield and Liverpool received MPs, many for the first time; half the MPs who sat for rotten boroughs lost their seats (though 73 still remained), yet the size of the Commons remained at 658, the same as we have today. The Act extended the vote from the upper and upper-middle to the middle classes, and it was not until 1867 that it was further extended to the lower-middle classes, and in 1884 to the working classes. Finally, women were brought into the bosom of the constitution in recognition of their work in the Great War.

en savoir plus link1  link2

Weidenfeld & Nicholson, £20, 336pp







samedi 4 mai 2013

Evelyn Mary Dunbar

Evelyn  Dunbar 1906-1960

Evelyn Dunbar - A Land Girl and the Bail Bull

Evelyn Dunbar - A Land Girl and the Bail Bull

Tate,London.


Evelyn Dunbar - Winter garden c.1929-1937
Tate, London

 Evelyn Dunbar - Pea Picking at Rippers Cross Farm, 1945.

Evelyn Dunbar - Pea Picking at Rippers Cross Farm, 1945.




voir d'autres peintures de Evelyn Dunbar ( link )



William Hogarth

William Hogarth 1697-1764
peintre et graveur anglais

 William Hogarth - Lavinia Fenton, Duchess of Bolton c.1740-50

William Hogarth - Lavinia Fenton, Duchess of Bolton c.1740-50

Tate, London.



 William Hogarth - Head of a Lady, Called Lady Pembroke c.1740

William Hogarth - Head of a Lady, Called Lady Pembroke c.1740

Tate,London.




John Glover

John Glover 1767-1849

peintre australien d'origine britannique

 John GLOVER A view of the artist's house and garden, in Mills Plains, Van Diemen's Land

John GLOVER A view of the artist's house and garden, in Mills Plains, Van Diemen's Land

il peint la campagne australienne comme la campagne anglaise avec une touche de Claude Lorrain.
il s'installe en Australie en 1831 à l'age de 64 ans.