Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Anoushka Shankar - Traveller

Anoushka Shankar

With her father Ravi Shankar

Traveller EPK


Live version of the title track


Dancing in Madness


More at:
http://www.anoushkashankar.com/

Monday, July 22, 2013

Selected Photographs of Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Selected photographs of Manuel Alvarez Bravo with music composed by Victor Paul. "Rosa Maria" Copyright 2013 Victor Paul.

Manuel Alvarez Bravo


Friday, July 12, 2013

The Seashell and the Clergyman and Fever: Two French Silent Films

La Coquille et le clergyman (The Seashell and the Clergyman) (1928)  by Germaine Dulac.  With Music composed and orchestrated by Giovanni Palumbo.

Germaine Dulac
"It isn't enough to simply capture reality in order to express it in its totality; something else is necessary in order to respect it entirely, to surround it in its atmosphere, and to make its moral meaning perceptible…" Germaine Dulac

Fievre (Fever) (1921)  by Louis Delluc
Louis Delluc

La Coquille et le clergyman (Part 1)


La Coquille et le clergyman (Part 2)


La Coquille et le clergyman (Part 3)



Fievre (Fever) (1921)  by Louis Delluc
* Note that the intertitles for this film have been lost


More at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Delluc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germaine_Dulac
http://integrallife.com/integral-post/toward-integral-cinema

Saturday, June 22, 2013

Saturday, June 1, 2013

Cezanne's Bathers


Cézanne painted bathers from the 1870s onwards, including numerous compositions of male and female bathers, singly or in groups. Late in life, he painted three large-scale female bather groups. In addition to the National Gallery's painting, they are now in the Barnes Foundation, Merion, PA, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He seems to have been at work on all three simultaneously at the time of his death.

In such works, Cézanne was reinterpreting a long tradition of paintings with nude figures in the landscape by artists such as Titian and Poussin. While the subjects of their works were taken from classical myths, Cézanne did not use direct literary sources. Instead, his central theme was the harmony of the figures with the landscape expressed through solid forms, strict architectonic structure, and the earth tones of the bodies.
~ Description from the London National Gallery website

Paul Cezanne


The Bathers (Les Grandes Baigneuses), 1900 - National Gallery, London

Study for Bathers


The Bathers (Les Grandes Baigneuses), 1906 - Philadelphia Museum of Art

Detail: The Bathers (Les Grandes Baigneuses)


Bathers, 1875 - Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City


Four Bathers, 1878


Three Bathers, 1875-77 Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France


Four Bathers, 1890


Five Bathers, 1887


Bathers at Rest, 1904


Bathers at Rest, 1887



Bathers and Fisherman with a Line, 1872


Bather, 1887


Bathers, 1905
Also see:

Four Paintings by Harald Slott-Møller

Selected paintings by the Danish painter Harald Slott-Møller



Danish Landscape


Primavera, Young Girl


Girls in a Green Rowing Boat on a Summer Day


Primavera


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