This is an artistic blog where we showcase the best in the world of arts from world famous timeless masterpieces to classical musics by the masters to literary works of arts by world famous writers.
To Live In Order To Please God And To Give Glory To His Name.
Claude Monet (November 14, 1840 - December 5, 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term impressionism was derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise.
Claude Monet was born on November 14, 1840 and was the second son of Claude-Adolphe and Louise-Justine Aubree Monet. He first became known locally for his charcoal caricatures which he would sell for ten to twenty francs. When Monet traveled to Paris to visit The Louvre, he witnessed painters copying from the old masters. Monet, having brought his paints and other tools with him, would instead go and sit by a window and paint what he saw. Monet died of lung cancer on December 5, 1926 at the age of 86 and was buried in the Giverny church cemetery.
Tags: Timeless Masterpieces, Great Masters, Claude Monet, Impressionism, Plein-air Landscape Painting, Charcoal Caricatures
Francisco Goya (March 30, 1746- April 16, 1828) was an Aragonese Spanish painter and printmaker. Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown and a chronicler of history. He has been regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and as the first of the moderns. The subversive and subjective element in his art, as well as his bold handling of paint, provided a model for the work of later generations of artists, notably Manet and Picasso.
Goya left Spain in May 1824 for Bordeuax, where he settled, and Paris. He returned to Spain in 1826, but despite a warm welcome, he returned to Bordeaux in ill health where he died in 1828 at the age of 82.
Tags: Francisco Goya, Timeless Masterpieces, Great Masters, Court Painter. Last of The Old Masters
Raphael Sanzio, usually known by his name alone (April 6 or March 28, 1483- April 6, 1520) was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. Raphael was enormously productive and despite his early death at thirty seven, a large body of his work remains, especially in the Vatican. He died on April 6, 1520.
Tags: Timeless Masterpieces, Great Masters, Raphael, Renaissance, Vatican
Portrait of An Old Man (1595- 1600) (Presumed Self Portrait of El Greco)
El Greco (1541- April 7, 1614) was a painter, scupltor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. El Greco was born in Crete which was at the time part of the Republic of Venice, and the center of Post-Byzantine art. He trained and became a master within that tradition before traveling at age 26 to Venice, as other Greek artists had done. El Greco is regarded as a precursor of both Expressionism and Cubism. El Greco has been characterized by modern scholars as an artist so individual that he belongs to no conventional school. He died on April 7, 1614.
Tags: El Greco, Timeless Masterpieces of The Great Masters, Renaissance, Post Byzantine Period, Expressionism, Cubism
Henri Matisse (December 31, 1869- November 3, 1954) was a French artist, known for his use of color and his fluid, brilliant and original draftsmanship. As a draftsman, printmaker and sculptor, but principally as a painter, Matisse is one of the best known artist of the 20th century. Although he was initially labeled as a Fauve (wild beast), by the 1920s, he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting. His mastery of the expressive language of color and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art. Matisse died of a heart attack at the age of 84 in 1954.
Tags: Henri Matisse, Great Master, Timeless Masterpieces, Rennaisance
The Phantom of The Opera is a musical and operetta by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the novel ny French novelist Gaston Leroux. The musical focuses on a beautiful singer, Christine Daae, who becomes the obsession of a mysterious, disfigured musical genius known as "The Phantom of the Opera," who terrorizes the Paris Opera House.
You Are Loved (Don't Give Up) - The Phantom of the Opera
Tags: Phantom of the Opera, You Are Loved (Don't Give Up), Andrew Lloyd Webber, Broadway's Greatest Hits.
Frederic Chopin (March 1, 1810 - October 17, 1849)
This post is dedicated to Krystyna, my good friend who counts Chopin as one of her all time favorites. May you enjoy his nocturne no 1.
Fryderyk Chopin was a Polish virtuoso pianist and piano composer of the Romantic period. He is widely regarded as the greatest Polish composer, and one of the most influential composers for piano in the 19th century.
Chopin's extant compositions all include the piano, predominantly alone or as a solo instrument among others. Though his music is technically demanding, its style emphasizes nuance and expressive depth rather than technical virtuosity. Chopin invented new musical forms such as the ballade, and made major innovations to existing forms such as the piano sonata, waltz, nocturne, etude, impromptu, and prelude. His works are mainstays of Romanticism in 19th century classical music. His mazurkas and polonaises remain the cornerstone of Polish national classical music.
Chopin died in Paris, France on October 17, 1849.
Nocturne No. 1 - Frederic Chopin Played in Piano by Maria Jao
Tags: Frederick Chopin, Classical Music, World's Classical Masterpieces, Romanticism
Woman in a Garden (1867)
Water Lilies ( 1914-1917)
Garden Path (1902)
Camille Monet At Work (1875)
Woman With A Parasol (1875)
Claude Monet - Photo by Nader (1899)
