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Monday, July 10, 2023

Summer: Vivaldi and Van Gogh

Poppies and Butterflies Van Gogh

The intensity of insects buzzing, the sirocco searing across your face. Flowers bloom then fade daily. Can music sound like the dizzying daze of summer? Vivaldi thought so.

Antonio Vivaldi - Summer (Full) - The Four Seasons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY1p-FmjT1M

(P.S. Don't forget to hydrate. Just listening to this can make you thirsty.)

And also...

Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers With Vivaldi's Summer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZtZTxkGtwI

Monday, March 20, 2023

Matisse and Spring--What's Outside Your Window?

The Dessert: Harmony in Red, Henri Matisse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dessert:_Harmony_in_Red_%28The_Red_Room%29

Looks like Henri had trees in bloom outside his window.
Maybe he was listening to this music while he painted, which premiered the same year, 1908.

Maurice Ravel - Rhapsodie Espagnole, I-II

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1ZyAf1udmU

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Autumn Poplars along the River Epte - Claude Monet

Autumn

by Emily Dickinson

The morns are meeker than they were,
The nuts are getting brown;
The berry’s cheek is plumper,
The rose is out of town.

The maple wears a gayer scarf,
The field a scarlet gown.
Lest I should be old-fashioned,
I’ll put a trinket on.

Monday, November 16, 2020

Thanksgiving Art

Happy Thanksgiving by Megan Miller

Pilgrims N C Wyeth

Norman Rockwell
Cousin Reginald Catches the Thanksgiving Turkey

Home For Thanksgiving by Medana Gabbard

Artist unknown

Macy's Parade by Kathy Jakobsen

John Currin – Thanksgiving, 2003

Micahael Andryc, The Weird Thanksgiving

Friday, October 23, 2020

a wind has blown the rain away

Four Trees, Egon Schiele

a wind has blown the rain away

by E.E. Cummings

a wind has blown the rain away and blown
the sky away and all the leaves away,
and the trees stand. I think i too have known
autumn too long

(and what have you to say,
wind wind wind—did you love somebody
and have you the petal of somewhere in your heart
pinched from dumb summer?
O crazy daddy
of death dance cruelly for us and start

the last leaf whirling in the final brain
of air!)Let us as we have seen see
doom’s integration………a wind has blown the rain

away and the leaves and the sky and the
trees stand:
the trees stand. The trees,
suddenly wait against the moon’s face.

This poem is actually a Shakespearean sonnet.

Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Van Gogh: Les Alyscamps; Autumn Leaves and Barbra Streisand

Van Gogh: Les Alyscamps: Falling Autumn Leaves

Since he painted this in France, here is Barbra Streisand singing 'Autumn Leaves' in French, from Je m'appelle Barbra (1966) :

How beautiful, not just her voice.

Barbra Streisand - Autumn Leaves

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiRvvorZ4ic

Thursday, October 8, 2020

Van Gogh's Autumn Trees

Van Gogh, Autumn Landscape 1885

Autumn from Alexander Glazunov's The Seasons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg6dZScORQk

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Autumn: Monet and Vivaldi

Autumn Poplars-Monet

And to my Australian friends who are in Spring, please forgive me.

Vivaldi's Four Seasons - Autumn (3rd movement) -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8AN0jWNrJA

Thursday, August 20, 2020

Time To Get Up- It's Morgenstimmung!

Impression: Sunrise Claude Monet

Classical Music - Morning Mood (Grieg) Morgenstimmung

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAu4TajHYLk

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Yes, Claude, A Trip To The Beach Would Be Nice

The Path at La Cavee, Pourville Monet

Here's some Impressionist music to go with--

Claude Debussy - La Mer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOCucJw7iT8

Saturday, July 4, 2020

'I Paint Flowers So They Won't Die.' So said Frida.

Folk Flowers, Frida Kahlo

Born in Coyoacán, Mexico, young Frida's life was punctuated by prominent events: polio, the Mexican Revolution, and a horrific bus accident among them. Recovery from the bus trauma left her isolated and in extreme pain; painting became her distraction and solace. Self-portraits were her frequent focus, as she explained, "I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best."

Long celebrated as a folk icon in her homeland, it was not until the 1980s, well after her 1954 death, that Kahlo became widely recognized for her artistic skill. Now, her brightly-colored, often surreal artwork is in high demand. She has also been memorialized in movies and songs, on currency, and in countless books. Her birthplace and adult residence, The Blue House, is maintained today as a museum in her honor.
From the marvelous website, A Mighty Girl http://www.amightygirl.com/

Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, 1940

Friday, July 3, 2020

We Brought The Summer With Us

Samhradh Samhradh

The song was first heard of in Dublin 1730, a song written for the Gaelic festival known as Bealtaine that marks the beginning of summer, celebrated April 30 to May 1.

During the festival there is the lighting of bonfires and making of flower decorations.

This song is a perfect summer tune to listen to during a road trip through the country side.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4LtHaAoimI

Samhradh, samhradh, bainne na ngamhna
Thugamar féin an samhradh linn
Samhradh buí na nóinín glégeal
Thugamar féin an samhradh linn

Thugamar linn é ón gcoill chraobhaigh
Thugamar féin an samhradh linn
Samhradh buí ó luí na gréine
Thugamar féin an samhradh linn

Samhradh, samhradh, bainne na ngamhna
Thugamar féin an samhradh linn
Samhradh buí na nóinín glégeal
Thugamar féin an samhradh linn

Tá an fhuiseog ag seinm ‘sag luascadh sna spéartha
Áthas do lá is bláth ar chrann
Tá an chuach is an fhuiseog ag seinm le pléisiúr
Thugamar féin an samhradh linn

Samhradh, samhradh, bainne na ngamhna
Thugamar féin an samhradh linn
Samhradh buí na nóinín glégeal
Thugamar féin an samhradh linn

Summer, summer, the calves milk