Tag: France

The Good Shepherd by Henry Ossawa Tanner

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Henry Ossawa Tanner became one of America’s most famous Black artists by depicting dream-like Bible scenes like this one. Click here to see it on the Gallery’s site. Clicking the image on their page will open a viewer that allows you to zoom in and pan around.

In today’s episode we’ll find out how he went from working in a flour mill to a successful artistic career in Paris and what he has in common with another artist, Richard Norris Brooke. And we discover a mystery about one of his early works!

“The Good Shepherd” by Henry Ossawa Tanner, American, c. 1918
Corcoran Collection (The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Gift of Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr.)

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“A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo

Episode theme is “Virtutes Instrumenti” by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4590-virtutes-instrumenti

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Artwork information
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.195513.html

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/american-art-to-wwii/symbolism-america/a/tanner-angels-appearing-before-the-shepherds

https://www.antiquesandthearts.com/henry-ossawa-tanner-and-his-influence-in-america/

Tanner Bio
https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1919.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ossawa_Tanner#cite_ref-eoaah_6-0

https://americanart.si.edu/artist/henry-ossawa-tanner-4742

Tanner painting technique
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWxErF_nzd4

Slow Art Day http://www.slowartday.com

La Condition Humaine by René Magritte

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La Condition Humaine does not have an open access image available. You can see it online by clicking the placeholder or this link: https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.70170.html

Rene Magritte is one of the best known Surrealist painters and loved turning expectations on their heads. Which could explain A LOT about some of the more unsavory parts of his life!

And we’ll find out how he turned a simple view of a front lawn into something mind-blowing!

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“A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo

Episode theme is “Menuet antique” composed by Maurice Ravel. Performed by Luis Sarro. Courtesy of musopen.org

https://musopen.org/music/4704-menuet-antique/

https://musopen.org/music/performer/luis-sarro/

https://musopen.org/music/composer/maurice-ravel/

Artwork information
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.70170.html

Magritte information
Morris, Desmond. The Lives of the Surrealists  London;: Thames & Hudson, 2018.

Elliott, Patrick. Another World : Dalí, Magritte, Míro and the Surrealists. Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, 2010. Print.

What You Need to Know about René Magritte (Artsy article)
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-rene-magritte

René and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog After the War, Paul Simon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lj5RgpgfPE

Slow Art Day http://www.slowartday.com

Her Appeal to the Dauphin by Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel

Painting being described in episode
Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel (French, 1850 – 1913), Her Appeal to the Dauphin (Joan of Arc series: II), 1906, oil and gold leaf on canvas, Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection) 2015.19.35

Who is this young person kneeling before a crowd of one-percenters? Meet Joan of Arc, one very tough teen. She’s here to convince the exiled French court that she can save France from the British. No wonder they look skeptical!

And just like Sodoma, we get to discover another artist, Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel. He painted a series of six images about Joan’s life for Senator William A. Clark that formerly hung in the Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC.

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“A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo

Episode theme is “Our Story Begins” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). Courtesy of https://filmmusic.io License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Slow Art Day http://www.slowartday.com

Joan information

Cristen Conger “Why was cross-dressing the only crime Joan of Arc was charged with?” 2 February 2009. HowStuffWorks.com. https://history.howstuffworks.com/history-vs-myth/joan-of-arc-trial.htm 11 October 2019

https://www.biography.com/military-figure/joan-of-arc

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Joan-of-Arc

Joan of Arc: Her Image in France and America by Nora Heimann
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98997.Joan_of_Arc

Joan of Arc trial transcripts
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/joanofarc-trial.asp

French medievalism and Clark commission
https://soundcloud.com/nationalgalleryofart/boutet-de-monvels-jeanne-darc-from-print-to-paint

https://soundcloud.com/nationalgalleryofart/the-passion-for-all-things-post-medieval-a-multimedia-perspective

NGA Curatorial Records
https://www.nga.gov/collection/curatorial-records-make-an-appointment.html

Farmhouse in Provence by Vincent van Gogh

Image of the painting being described
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853 – 1890), Farmhouse in Provence, 1888, oil on canvas, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection 1970.17.34

This deceptively peaceful summer scene actually bristles with energy! Van Gogh painted this in Arles, in the south of France where he tried to escape modern life and re-discover a simpler, brighter world.

We’ll find out how the actions of an American admiral in a country on the other side of the globe led to one of the biggest artistic influences that Europe–and Vincent–had ever experienced.

Here’s an example of the woodblock prints I mention that had such a powerful impact on Western art.

Colorful Japanese print by Andō Hiroshige showing Mount Fuji
Andō Hiroshige (Japanese 1797-1858), Tōto meguro yuhhigaoka / Hiroshige ga, 1858

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“A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo

Episode theme is “Sonatine – II. Mouvement de Menuet” composed by Maurice Ravel. Performed by Markus Staab. Courtesy of musopen.org.
https://musopen.org/music/4724-sonatine/

Farmhouse in Provence information
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.52178.html

https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.52178.html#relatedpages

Japanese influence on Western art
Japonisme : Japanese Reflections in Western Art. Sunderland, England: Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, 1986. Print.

Put, Max., Sichel, Philippe., and Koechlin, Raymond. Plunder and Pleasure : Japanese Art in the West, 1860-1930 . Leiden: Hotei Pub., 2000. Print.

Vincent van Gogh and Japan. Tokyo: TV Asahi, 1992. Print.

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/jpon/hd_jpon.htm

https://www.kumon-ukiyoe.jp/en/history.php

https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/stories/inspiration-from-japan#10

Quotes from van Gogh’s letter explaining color use
https://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/audio-video/audio/collection-highlights-english/farmhouse-in-provence-van-gogh.html

The Life of Animals in Japanese Art
https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2019/life-of-animals-in-japanese-art.html

Library of Congress Japanese Prints Collection
https://www.loc.gov/collections/japanese-fine-prints-pre-1915/about-this-collection/

Andō, Hiroshige, Artist. Tōto meguro yuhhigaoka / Hiroshige ga. Fuji Japan Mount Tokyo, 1858. [Tokyo: Tsuta-ya Kichizō] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2004666335/.

Slow Art Day http://www.slowartday.com

Nonchaloir (Repose) – John Singer Sargent

Painting of young woman asleep on sofa in elegant room
John Singer Sargent, Nonchaloir (Repose), American, 1856 – 1925, 1911, oil on canvas, Gift of Curt H. Reisinger

John Singer Sargent was famous for his high society portraits set in elegant rooms like this. Find out why he gave up what he called “a pimp’s profession” and began painting just for his own pleasure, doing landscapes and scenes of his family. His niece Rose-Marie, pictured here, became one of his favorite subjects.

Painted just before World War I, we also find out what happened to them after this peaceful afternoon.

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“A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas

Episode theme is 3 Pieces composed by Lili Boulanger performed by  Pandora Selfridge. Courtesy of musopen.org

Nonchaloir (Repose) information
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.35080.html

https://www.nga.gov/audio-video/audio/repose-nonchaloir-sargent.html

John Singer Sargent information
https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1858.html

Slow Art Day http://www.slowartday.com

Recommended Reading:

A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in the Corcoran Gallery of Art: Volume 2, Painters Born from 1850 to 1910 (PDF 9.8 MB)

American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part II (PDF 91.2 MB)

John Singer Sargent and His Muse by Karen Corsano and Daniel Williman