Share Your Favorite Paintings and Classical Music

Please, when posting a painting, add the artist and name of painting if you can. Any info at all would be good. Same obviously for music, just name of piece and composer. This way other people can find these pieces of art and enjoy them.

 

This thread is to replace the other art thread here. I'll start it off with the same painting.

 

Twilight in the Wilderness by Frederic Church of the Hudson River School. The painting foreshadows the Civil War.

 

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1AM516flipw/UeRwG0ZWmFI/AAAAAAAAPac/Vnmf1b291JE/s1600/twilight_in_the_wilderness-large.jpg

 

 

To add images, you'll see a little icon under the BOLD icon. That will give you two little pieces of code. You have to find a page where the painting you want is the only thing on the page, then copy and paste the url between the two pieces of code. It seems to only work with jpg files, thanks to Lookingforward for figuring that part of the puzzle out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2gDFJWhXp8&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

Love Peer Gynt by Edward Greig

 

Helps me to sleep at night.

 

LF

Love that Peer Gynt piece LF! Great choice. Thanks for sharing it! Keep trying with your painting through our messages, you can get it! Maybe try a different source photo if you're trying with the same one both times.

Here's Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (Tallis Fantasia)"

 

You might recognize it from the film Master and Commander

 

 

Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 3

 

Lots of various performances but I seem to love this one best...

 

Vercingetorix Throws Down his Arms at the Feet of Julius Caesar (1899) Lionel Royer

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Siege-alesia-vercingetorix-jules-cesar.jpg/800px-Siege-alesia-vercingetorix-jules-cesar.jpg

 

The Kiss c. 1907

(1862 - 1917)

Gustav Klimt

Austria

 

Thank you Cate and Scottharvey

 

LF

Wow guys!! Loving these!

 

Nobody does counterpoint like Bach. Guy could do 16 melodies at once. That one you posted Scott, immediately made me happy. Your painting is wonderful too, a momentous moment in history. Poor Vercingetorix. Caesar is one of my heroes because he was just so brilliant.

 

LF! What a wonderful piece you chose. The Kiss has always been one of my favorites, Klimt was a genius.

 

Thanks so much guys, keep em coming as much as you want. Others reading, please feel free to post!! We've got hundreds of years of art and music to get through.

http://www.theuniquecreatures.com/creatures/wp-content/gallery/adele-bloch-bauer-photos/adele_detail_01.jpg

 

Adele Bloch-Bauer

 

Thanks, Cate.  Just one more. I so love his paintings.

 

LF

 

 

Wow guys!! Loving these!

 

Nobody does counterpoint like Bach. Guy could do 16 melodies at once. That one you posted Scott, immediately made me happy. Your painting is wonderful too, a momentous moment in history. Poor Vercingetorix. Caesar is one of my heroes because he was just so brilliant.

 

Agree 1000% Two of the most influential figures ever.

Thanks redevan, another good one from Master and Commander. I wish they'd make another M&C film! I love period pieces, especially that time period, with Napoleon, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Beethoven all living at once!! I'd go back there if I could.

 

Another lovely one by Klimt LF. His backgrounds remind me of some beads my roommate has from Italy they are called goulamine beads.

 

http://www.insidemystery.org/psychedelic/goulimine.jpg

Well I've driven myself nuts trying to find a way to post this painting, but I can't get it on a page that will work, but I wanted to share it because, well, just look at the light...

 

So I have to link it. Evening, Owen's Lake, California by Albert Bierstadt http://ludwigsgirl.tumblr.com/image/91258580352 

Some eternal rest for everyone with Mozart's Requiem, Lacrimosa. With choral latin so you can sing along and translation:

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/vermeer/kitchen-maid/kitchen-maid.jpg

 

The Kitchen Maid

Johannes Vermeer c.1658

 

Thanks for the music, beads and painting, Cate.glad I am not the only one defeated when trying to post a painting.

 

 

 

  LF

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Johannes_Vermeer_(1632-1675)_-_The_Girl_With_The_Pearl_Earring_(1665).jpg

 

2 for the price of one again

 

The girl with the pearl earring

Johannes Vermeer (1632-75)

Great Vermeers LF. When you look at the shadow and light on her apron and on the wall, etc, it's unbelievable.

Being part French I guess I'll have to submit Delacroix's most famous work Liberty Leading the People

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix_-_La_libert%C3%A9_guidant_le_peuple.jpg/800px-Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix_-_La_libert%C3%A9_guidant_le_peuple.jpg

Well I've driven myself nuts trying to find a way to post this painting, but I can't get it on a page that will work, but I wanted to share it because, well, just look at the light...

 

So I have to link it. Evening, Owen's Lake, California by Albert Bierstadt http://ludwigsgirl.tumblr.com/image/91258580352

 

This one?

 

http://33.media.tumblr.com/870e8c8d911a2abfd9849854cd189b45/tumblr_n8gbk1fJzQ1qbcf24o1_1280.jpg

 

Your paintings are vefy dramatic.  Mine is more peaceful.

 

http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/painting-the-birds-franz-dvorak.jpg

 

 

Painting the Birds

Frank Dvorak

1862-1927

http://www.intofineart.com/upload1/file-admin/images/new23/Henri%20de%20toulouse-lautrec-558474.jpg

 

The Bed

Toulouse-Lautrec

 

Time for me to get some sleep 

 

4.00 here in the UK

 

Enjoyed Mozart's requiem.

 

Here is Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata

 

 

 

 

Yes Redevan, THAT one. Lol, I couldn't find a source to load it properly. Unless you know some other kind of loading wizardry.  Thank you for uploading it properly. Caravaggio was quite a character! The faces in that painting are perfect.

 

Scott, that is a powerful iconic painting by Delacroix. He was so good with movement-just wonderful.

 

Hey LF, I haven't seen either of those before, very different as you say-love the colour in both of them. And thanks for the sonata. Ludwig van is my god.

Oh, just throwing this out here-if anyone hasn't seen the Simon Schama's Power of Art series, check it out, they're all on YouTube I think. Here's a list of the artists he covers http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/powerofart/

 

Here's his Caravaggio-the entire episode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUeGRGLGXFY

 

You can easily search out the other artists on YT for the rest. They're all good.

Un Bel Di (Opera) by Leontyne Price

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi00skjNsoA&list=PL7F491D2E82ACC8D5&index=2

 

 

Hey LovingMother thanks so much for your contributions. That Restful Spirit is gorgeous. And Madame Butterfly, I believe you chose the best opera singer ever for that piece.

 

To anyone reading, sometimes we can't post images so we can see them, if they don't have a page of their own, where they are the ONLY thing on a page, not on a blog, or if they're not jpg-someone can correct me if I'm wrong, then I don't think they'll show up here. It's perfectly all right to post a link in that case. It can take a bit of searching to find one that will work. Some blogs you can click on the painting and it will take you to the kind of page you need-painting with nothing else, then use that link in the code here.