Joan Miro - Femme et oiseau dans la nuit.
vendredi 30 mai 2014
Courbet - La source
Gustave Courbet 1819-1877
une biographie du Musée d'Orsay
une biographie du Musée d'Orsay
Gustave Courbet - La source,1868.
huile sur toile, 128x97 cm
Musée d'Orsay,Paris.
jeudi 29 mai 2014
Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
Dali - Ma femme nue regardant son propre corps devenir marches,
trois vertèbres d'une colonne, ciel et architecture, 1945
huile sur bois - 61 x 52 cm
Collection particulière
mardi 27 mai 2014
John Singer Sargent - portrait of a lady
Spring Blossoms, Montclair, New Jersey,” by George Inness, 1891
George Inness 1825-1894
George Inness-Spring Blossoms, Montclair, New Jersey,ca.1891.
Medium: Oil and crayon or charcoal on canvas
Dimensions: 29 x 45 1/4 in. (73.7 x 114.9 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
lundi 26 mai 2014
Edvard Grieg - Peer Gynt Suites - 1 and 2
Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843 - 1907)
Peer Gynt Suites 1 and 2
Incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play. (1875, Op. 23)
Orquesta Sinfónica de RTVE
Guillermo Garcia Calvo - Conductor
Suite No. 1, Op. 46 (1888):
I. Morning Mood (Morgenstemning) 00:01
II. The Death of Åse (Åses død) 04:31
III. Anitra's Dance (Anitras dans) 09:39
IV. In the Hall of the Mountain King (I Dovregubbens hall) 13:14
Suite No. 2, Op. 55 (1891):
I. The Abduction of the Bride. Ingrid's Lament (Bruderovet. Ingrids klage) 15:48
II. Arabian Dance (Arabisk dans) 20:14
III. Peer Gynt's Homecoming (Stormy Evening on the Sea) (Peer Gynts hjemfart (Stormfull aften på havet)) 24:58
IV. Solveig's Song (Solveigs sang) 27:36
dimanche 25 mai 2014
samedi 24 mai 2014
Paula Rego -Three Guchi Faces, Guchi Face with Banana
Paula Rego 1935-...
Paula Rego -Three Guchi Faces, Guchi Face with Banana,1983.
- Acrylic on paper, 68.5 x 101.5 cm
- Collection: Leicester Arts and Museums Service
Paula Rego - Three Guchi Faces, Guchi Face with Cutlery
John Constable - Dedham Vale,evening
John Constable 1776-1837
John Constable - Dedham Vale,evening,1802.
- Oil on canvas, 31.8 x 43.2 cm
- Collection: Victoria and Albert Museum
vendredi 23 mai 2014
UTE MAHLER UND WERNER MAHLER
UTE MAHLER UND WERNER MAHLER
Eine der aktuelleren Arbeiten des Ehepaars Mahler: Seit 2010 arbeitet das Paar an der Werkgruppe "Die selstsamen Tage", aus der auch dieses unbetitelte Foto stammt. Die meisten Fotografien sind in Brandenburg und Mecklenburg-Vorpommern entstanden. Es geht dabei vor allem um das Auffinden des Besonderen und Unerwarteten in bekannten Orten.
Un des travaux actuels du couple Mahler. Depuis 2010 le couple travaille sur le projet " les jours étranges" , la plupart des photos sans titre. La plupart des photos ont été prises dans le Brandebourg et en Poméranie.
Ute und Werner Mahler, Lehnitz 2013
Für "Sibyll" - aber auch für andere Auftraggeber - porträtierte Ute Mahler immer wieder berühmte Persönlichkeiten. Auch nach der Wende war Mahler als Porträt-Fotografin gefragt. 1996 fotografierte sie die Schauspielerin Sophie Rois auf dem Dach der Berliner Volksbühne.
Après la chute du mur Ute Mahler était aussi demandée comme photographe de portrait.
En 1996 elle photographiait la comédienne Sophie Rols sur le toit du Volksbühne de Berlin.
samedi 17 mai 2014
Artemisia Lomi Gentileschi
Artemisia Lomi Gentileschi 1593-1652
Artemisia Lomi Gentileschi - Suzanne et les vieilards,1610
Artemisia Gentileschi - Judith et sa servante, vers 1618-1619.
huile sur toile -
Palais Pitti,Florence
huile sur toile -
Palais Pitti,Florence
Clara Peeters - Still Life
Clara Peeters 1594-cerca 1657
une des rares femmes peintres du XVII ième siècle(Flandres)
une des rares femmes peintres du XVII ième siècle(Flandres)
Clara Peeters (1594-after 1657)
Still-Life with Cheese, Artichokes and Cherries, circa 1625
Oil on Panel - 46.7 x 33.3 cm
Los Angeles, County Museum of Art
Still-Life with Cheese, Artichokes and Cherries, circa 1625
Oil on Panel - 46.7 x 33.3 cm
Los Angeles, County Museum of Art
1. Clara Peeters (1594-after 1657)
Still-Life with Cheese, Almonds and Pretzels, circa 1612-1615
Oil on Panel - 34.5 x 49 cm
La Haye, Mauritshuis
Still-Life with Cheese, Almonds and Pretzels, circa 1612-1615
Oil on Panel - 34.5 x 49 cm
La Haye, Mauritshuis
Clara Peeters - Still life with Shellfish and Eggs
en savoir plus (français) (english)mardi 13 mai 2014
Johannes Brahms - Symphonie n° 4
Johannes Brahms 1833-1897
Symphonie n° 4 op 98
Symphonie n° 4 op 98
Brahms - Symphony n°4 -
Berlin / Furtwängler Wiesbaden 1949
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Brahms Symphony 4 - Carlos Kleiber,1980
Pablo Picasso - nature morte avec une bouteille de rhum
Pablo Picasso 1881-1973
Still Life with a Bottle of Rum, 1911
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973)
Oil on canvas; 24 1/8 x 19 7/8 in. (61.3 x 50.5 cm)
Still Life with a Bottle of Rum, 1911
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973)
Oil on canvas; 24 1/8 x 19 7/8 in. (61.3 x 50.5 cm)
Picasso painted Still Life with a Bottle of Rum during the summer of 1911 in Céret, the small town in the French Pyrenees that was so popular with poets, musicians, and artists—especially the Cubists—before World War I that it has been called the "spiritual home of Cubism."
One is hard-pressed to see the bottle of rum indicated in the title of this work, which was painted during the most abstract phase of Cubism, known as "high" Analytic Cubism (1910–12). In the upper center of the picture are what seem to be the neck and opening of a bottle. Some spidery black lines to the left of it might denote sheet music, and the round shape lower down, the base of a glass. In the center, at the far right, is the pointed spout of a porrón (Spanish wine bottle). This is one of the first works in which Picasso included letter forms. It has been suggested that the ones shown at the left, LETR, refer to Le Torero, the magazine for bullfighting fans—Picasso being one of them—but they might simply be a pun on lettre, French for "word.
vendredi 2 mai 2014
La grande Armada 1588
Invicible Armada 1588 dans la guerre anglo-espagnole de 1585-1604 qui se termina par le traité de Londres ( 1604 ).
Britische Schiffe besiegen 1588 die spanische Armada:
Der Sieg, der Großbritanniens Herrschaft über die Meere begründete, ist eine der "Großen Seeschlachten"
Les navires britanniques assiègent la flotte espagnole.
La guerre qui fonde la domination anglaise sur les mers est une des grandes batailles navales.
jeudi 1 mai 2014
Saint-Simon (1675-1755)
Vie et œuvre de Saint-Simon (1675-1755)
Louis de Rouvray, duc de Saint-Simon, entra aux mousquetaires en 1691, démissionna parce qu’il se crut victime d’une injustice, et se rapprocha du parti des mécontents : il comptait, avec le duc de Beauvilliers et Fénelon, sur le prochain règne du duc de Bourgogne. Mais celui-ci mourut prématurément, et Saint-Simon n’espéra plus qu’en la faveur du duc d’Orléans qui devint Régent en 1715 ; celui-ci en effet le fît entrer au Conseil, puis le nomma en 1721 ambassadeur d’Espagne. La mort du Régent (1723) mit fin à sa carrière politique et diplomatique. Tout le reste de sa vie, plus de trente années, Saint-Simon l’a consacré à écrire ses Mémoires.
Pour écrire ses Mémoires, Saint-Simon fait d’abord appel à ses souvenirs personnels : il y a des choses qu’il a vues, et des hommes qu’il a connus ; et il était un observateur prodigieusement attentif, « perçant de ses regards clandestins chaque visage, chaque maintien, chaque mouvement, et y délectant sa curiosité ». Et c’est toujours un témoin passionné. Lisez le récit fameux de la séance du Parlement du 26 août 1718, où fut cassé le testament de Louis XIV ; il nous dit : « J’étouffais de silence… je suais d’angoisse… Mes yeux fichés, collés sur ces bourgeois superbes… je me mourrais de joie ; j’en étais à craindre la défaillance ; mon cœur dilaté à l’excès ne trouvait plus d’espace à s’étendre… » Mais si passionné qu’il soit, ce témoin ne laisse rien échapper : il voit tout, avec une pénétration effrayante. À ses qualités d’observations, Saint-Simon joint la manie des informations orales. Toutes lui sont bonnes, qu’elles viennent de grands seigneurs ou de grandes dames, comme le duc de Beauvilliers et la princesse des Ursins, de ministres comme Chamillart, dont les filles (les duchesses de Lorges, de Mortemart et de la Feuillade lui donnèrent force détails sur la jeune duchesse de Bourgogne), ou de valets, de laquais et de servantes. Et c’est bien un peu ce qui nous gâte Saint-Simon ; il y a dans ses Mémoires trop de commérages.
Aussi la véracité de Saint-Simon est-elle fort sujette à caution. Ses Mémoires, dont il faut admirer sinon imiter le style original, Primesautier, tout en reliefs et en couleurs, sont une œuvre d’orgueil et de passion. Entiché de ses prétentions nobiliaires, persuadé de son propre mérite, Saint-Simon en veut à tous ceux qui, grands ou petits, rois ou roturiers, ont méconnu son génie politique ou blessé sa vanité.
[Source : Charles-Marc Des Granges, Les Grands écrivains français des origines à nos jours, Librairie Hatier, 1900]
Peter Paul Rubens and his first wife
Peter Paul Rubens 1577-1640
The Honeysuckle Bower -Self Portrait of the Artist with his First Wife Isabella by Peter Paul Rubens (1690)
The Life of Peter Paul Rubens
1577 | Peter Paul Rubens is born on 28 July in Siegen, Germany. |
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1578 | The family moves to Cologne. |
1587 | Death of Jan Rubens, the artist's father. |
1589 | Rubens's mother, Maria Pypelinckx, returns to Antwerp, where her children Blandina, Filips and Peter Paul attend Rombout Verdonck's Latin school. |
1591 | Rubens is apprenticed to Tobias Verhaecht. |
1592 | Trains with Adam van Noort. |
1594-95 | Moves to the workshop of Otto van Veen. |
1598 | Becomes a master painter in the Antwerp Guide of St Luke. |
1600 | Departs for Italy on 9 May. Appointed court painter to Vincenzo Gonzaga in Mantua. |
1601-02 | Travels to Rome. |
1603 | Travels to Spain. Paints Equestrian Portrait of the Duke of Lerma (Prado, Madrid) |
1604 | Returns to Mantua. |
1605 | Completes three altarpieces for the Jesuit church of Santissima Trinità in Mantua. |
1606-08 | Returns to Rome. Commissioned to paint a piece for the high altar of the church of S Maria in Vallicella. An initial version is rejected in 1607; the second and final version is completed in 1608. |
1608 | Death of Rubens's mother. He returns to Antwerp. |
1609 | Rubens is appointed as court painter to the Archdukes Albert and Isabella in Brussels, but goes on living in Antwerp and establishes a workshop there. On 3 October he marries Isabella Brant. He paints the Adoration of the Magi (Prado, Madrid) and The Artist and His Wife in a Honeysuckle Bower (Alte Pinakothek, Munich). |
1610 | Begins the Raising of the Cross for the church of St Walburg (now in the Antwerp cathedral). Purchases a house on the Wapper, which he expands to make room for his studio. |
1611 | Begins work on the Descent from the Cross (for the Antwerp cathedral). His first child, Clara Serena, is born. Death of his brother Filips Rubens. |
1614 | Birth of Albert, Rubens's first son. |
1615-20 | Collaborates with Jan Brueghel the Elder and Frans Snyders. |
1616 | Anthony van Dyck joins his workshop as an assistant. |
1618 | Birth of Rubens's second son, Nicolaas. Completes Daniel in the Lion's Den, according to a list of works offered for sale. The Decius Mus series of tapestries is woven in Brussels. |
1620 | Commissioned to produce 39 ceiling paintings on canvas and three altar pieces for the Jesuit church (now St Carlo Borromeo) in Antwerp. |
1621 | Van Dyck leaves Rubens's studio and goes to England. Rubens receives a commission from Marie de' Medici to produce a cycle of paintings for the Palais de Luxembourg in Paris. |
1622-25 | Travels to Paris several times to work on the Medici cycle. Meets Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc. Becomes active as a diplomat, negotiating for peace in the Netherlands on behalf of Archduchess Isabella. |
1623 | Death of his daughter Clara Serena. |
1624 | Rubens is knighted by Philip IV. He embarks on a secret mission to the northern Netherlands for Archduchess Isabella. |
1625 | Ceremonial unveiling of the Medici cycle. Meets the Duke of Buckingham in Paris. Begins work on the Assumption of the Virgin for the cathedral in Antwerp. |
1626 | Death of Isabella Brant. |
1627 | Travels to Rotterdam, Delft, Amsterdam and Utrecht for secret meetings with Balthasar Gerbier, an agent of the Duke of Buckingham. Begins the Eucharist series for the convent of the Descalzas Reales in Madrid. |
1628 | Begins the unfinished Henry IV cycle for the Palais de Luxembourg. Paints Madonna Enthroned with Saints for the Church of St Augustine in Antwerp. Goes on a diplomatic mission to Madrid. Meets Velázquez. Paints the Equestrian Portrait of Philip IV (original lost; copy in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence) and portraits of the royal family. Copies paintings by Titian. |
1629 | Leaves Madrid on 29 April and travels to England by way of Paris, Brussels and Antwerp to prepare a peace treaty with Spain. Paints Allegory of Peace for Charles I. |
1630 | Knighted by Charles I before departing for Antwerp in March. Marries Hélène Fourment on 6 December. Begins work on the Ildefonso altarpiece for the church of St Jacques-sur-le-Coudenburg in Brussels (now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna) |
1631 | Hosts Marie de' Medici. Travels to The Hague to continue peace negotiations. |
1632 | Birth of his daughter Clara Johanna. |
1633 | Birth of his son Frans. |
1634 | Completes paintings for Banqueting House, Whitehall, London. Designs decorations for the Joyous Entry of Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand into Antwerp. Also paints The Garden of Love around this time. |
1635 | The cardinal-infante visits Rubens as part of his official entry into Antwerp. Birth of Rubens's daughter Isabella Helena. Rubens purchases the country estate of Het Steen in Elewijt, near Mechelen. Paintings produced around this time includeThe Feast of Venus, Portrait of Hélène Fourment in a Fur Wrap and various landscapes, such as View of Het Steen in the Early Morning. |
1636 | Appointed as court painter to Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand in Brussels. Commissioned by Philip IV to decorate the royal hunting lodge of Torre de la Parada. |
1637 | Birth of his son, Peter Paul. Receives commission for theCrucifixion of St Peter for the Church of St Peter in Cologne. |
1638 | The Horrors of War is sent to Florence (Galleria Pitti, Florence). |
1639 | Paints The Judgment of Paris for Philip IV (Prado, Madrid) and, around the same time, his late self-portrait. |
1640 | On 17 May he makes a will. Rubens dies on 30 May and is buried on 2 June. |