n this Episode we discuss the painting titled 'Madame Moitessier' by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Link to painting: https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.32696.html

2nd Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Madame_Moitessier#/media/File:Dominique_Ingres_-_Mme_Moitessier.jpg

In this Episode we look at  ''Hélène Rouart in Her Father's Study' by Edgar Degas 
Painted around 1886

Link to Painting: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Helene_Rouart_in_her_Father%27s_Study.jpg

2nd Link: https://www.wikiart.org/en/edgar-degas/henri-rouart-and-his-daughter-helene-1872

In this episode we look at 'Vilhelm Hammershøi' and his beautiful, meditative paintings.

Link 1:  https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/vilhelm-hammershoi-interior

Link 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Reading_a_Letter#/media/File:Hammershoi_Ida_Reading_a_Letter.jpg

Link 3:  https://rodicdavidson.co.uk/news/vilhelm-hammershoi/

Link 4: https://arthur.io/art/vilhelm-hammershoi/courtyard-interior-at-strandgade-30

Poem Written by Rainer Maria Rilke 
Black Cat

A ghost, though invisible, still is like a place
your sight can knock on, echoing; but here
within this thick black pelt, your strongest gaze
will be absorbed and utterly disappear:

just as a raving madman, when nothing else
can ease him, charges into his dark night
howling, pounds on the padded wall, and feels
the rage being taken in and pacified.


She seems to hide all looks that have ever fallen
into her, so that, like an audience,
she can look them over, menacing and sullen,
and curl to sleep with them.
But all at once

as if awakened, she turns her face to yours;
and with a shock, you see yourself, tiny,
inside the golden amber of her eyeballs
suspended, like a prehistoric fly

In This Episode we look at " Bathers by a River - Les Demoiselles à la rivière
Or - simply Bathers by Henri Matisse  - Started in 1909 - finished 1917
Link to Painting - https://www.artic.edu/artworks/79307/bathers-by-a-river

Dance 2 LINK - https://www.wikiart.org/en/henri-matisse/dance-ii-1910

William Blake Link - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-oberon-titania-and-puck-with-fairies-dancing-n02686

Music LINK -  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_(Matisse)#/media/File:Matisse_-_Music.jpg

We get in deep with medieval master Hieronymus Bosch and look at 'The Garden of Earthly Delights'

Link to painting: https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-garden-of-earthly-delights-triptych/02388242-6d6a-4e9e-a992-e1311eab3609

In this Episode we look at 'Family of Saltimbanques ' (French: Famille de saltimbanques) painted in 1905 by Pablo Picasso

Link to Painting:  https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.46665.html
The Sketch is a guide to what the first layer would have looked like: http://art-picasso.com/1903_85.html

The second layer: http://art-picasso.com/1905_8.html

This sketch which shows how he started moving towards final image: http://art-picasso.com/1903_82.html

In this Episode we discuss 'The Table' by contemporary Artist Antonio López García - Born 6 January 1936

Link to painting: https://www.wikiart.org/en/antonio-lopez/the-table-1980

Link to more of his work and photos: https://en.antoniolopezweboficial.com/bio-visual

Zizinia de les Flors Restaurant Barcelona - https://www.instagram.com/zizinia_de_les_flors/

In this Episode we discuss 'Reflection' made in 1900 by Odilon Redon.

Link to image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Reflection%2C_1900-1905.jpg
Link to his early work: The Eye Like a Weird Balloon, Goes to Infinity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odilon_Redon#/media/File:Redon_-_L'oeil,_comme_un_ballon_bizarre,_se_dirige_vers_l'infini,_0217275.jpg

In this Episode we discuss The Portrait of 'Bartolomeo Panciatichi' - Painted in 1540 by Agnolo di Cosimo AKA Bronzino - 1503 – 1572

Link to Painting: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lluisribes/9178076066

Link to second Portrait: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Lucrezia_Panciatichi#/media/File:Lucrezia_Panciatichi_by_Angelo_Bronzino.jpg

In this episode we discuss 'Napoleon Crossing the Alps' By Jacques-Louis David

Link to Painting:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/David_-_Napoleon_crossing_the_Alps_-_Malmaison2.jpg

Link to unfinished Portrait: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Crossing_the_Alps#/media/File:Jacques-Louis_David_011.jpg

Link to Delaroche Painting:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Crossing_the_Alps#/media/File:Paul_Delaroche_-_Napoleon_Crossing_the_Alps_-_Google_Art_Project_2.jpg