Many thanks to Deborah J. Brasket for introducing me to this artist in the post Maria Berrio and the Art ofMyth-Making
“María Berrío”. The Georgia Review.
Marie Berrio, The collage artist creating women she wants to see in the world
At The Guardian: ‘Like magical realism’: María Berrío on her surreal collages
Tag: Maria Berrio At Sunnyside
Maria Berrio Portfolio – free pdf
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Very elegant!!
1. Self portrait, 1873 / Oil on canvas / Hungarian National Museum Historical Gallery, Budapest
2. Self portrait, 1878 / Oil on canvas / Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy
Very lovely and interesting!
Here is St Giles’ Church, Cripplegate, seen from the public walkway at Wallside. The church is surrounded by the Barbican Estate. Cromwell Tower is in the background. The City of London School for Girls is the lower building, centre and left. Through the gap between the church and the school, you can just glimpse the Barbican Centre.
The magnolia was in bloom!
I painted this as a commission, for some clients who wanted this particular view. A special request for this commission was that I showed two ducks. These are small, but they are there!
The white shapes on the lakeside wall are gravestones.
Old London Wall is on the left: part stone, part brick. This is the old Roman wall round the City of London.
Thank you to my clients for this commission…
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Very sweet- I seem to remember she lived near Earl’s Court.
1a. Self-portrait of Beatrix Potter as Mrs. McGregor, 1902 / Watercolor; included in only the first five printings of The Tale of Peter Rabbit / Found here~ https://www.peterharrington.co.uk/blog/first-editions-of-peter-rabbit/
1b. Original version from self-published edition, c.1902 / Found here~ https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1483146/drawing-potter-beatrix/
2. Self-portrait in The Roly-Poly Pudding, 1907 / Sepia pen and ink / Found here~ https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/the-roly-poly-pudding-by-beatrix-potter#
3. Self-portrait in The Tale of Pigling Bland, 1913 / Sepia pen and ink / Found here~ https://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/242807
4. Tongue-in-cheek self-portrait of Beatrix Potter and a pig, 1924? / Pen and ink sketch / Found here~ https://charminglittlebunny.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/tongue-in-cheek-self-portrait-of-beatrix-potter-and-a-pig-1924/
There must be a whole literature about the preparation and presentation of drinks in American literature. It somehow reminds me of the delightful work of Mollie Panter-Downes whose non-fiction is great as well.
The Irish writer and journalist Maeve Brennan has been enjoying something of a mini-renaissance in recent years with the republication of her brilliant collection of Dublin stories, The Springs of Affection, by Peninsula Press in February and a Backlisted Podcast discussion on the book last November. Many of Brennan’s short stories first appeared in The New Yorker magazine, where she worked as a columnist and reviewer, only to be collected posthumously following her death in 1993. The Rose Garden is the second of these volumes, another excellent collection of pieces originally published in the 1950s and ‘60s.
The Rose Garden comprises twenty stories, divided into four sections, the first (and longest) of which I’ll cover in this review. These seven pieces are all set in Herbert’s Retreat, a private, exclusive community of desirable houses situated on the east bank of the Hudson River, thirty miles from the heart of…
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Lovely once again and I think close to two favourite venues; King’s Place and The German Gymnasium.
Here’s the view from Handyside Garden, which is just north of the canal, part of the new Kings Cross development, Coal Drops Yard.
People rested on the grass eating takeaway food from containers. Children toddled under supervision. I painted.
On the roof of the barge “Word on the Water”, Hidè Takemoto played detailed guitar tunes. I recognised “Recuerdos de la Alhambra” by Tarrega, which I hadn’t heard for years. Each thread of the tune was insistent: the low climbing bass, the vibrating tremolo and the soaring high points, speaking clearly. It was perfect on that warm evening. He went on to play tunes I did not recognise: navigating his way through rhythms and moods. He gave us controlled and technical melodies and then, suddenly, wild abstract rock. A really talented musician.
Very interesting- a variety of geology and a curiously individual kind of place.
This weekend, come over to our house on the Isle of Wight. It’s usually lovely at this time of year, before the season’s rush of tourists. To save you the high cost of the ferry crossing, claimed by many to be the most expensive stretch of water in the world, and sleeping on our floor, your visit comes courtesy of a succession of artists, from intrepid Danish explorers to Berthe Morisot, the French Impressionist.
The south coast of England is known for its white cliffs, which become steadily more spectacular as the coast reaches the Isle of Wight. The most famous landmark here is the Needles, chalk sea stacks that have been both a welcome and a hazard to mariners over the centuries.
Philipp Georg Friedrich von Reck (1710-1798), untitled sketchbook page (c 1736), media not known, 36.5 x 28.8 cm, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen, Denmark. Courtesy of Det Kongelige…
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Maria Sybilla Merian at wikiwand
The Maria Sibylla Merian Society
Maria Sybilla Merian At Sunnyside
~Sunnyside
Fascinated by the rich romanticism of this period, the grand historical themes and the growth towards expressionist work- all against the political fury of France at that time!
Eugène Delacroix started painting at a challenging time. Apart from the dramatic political changes that brought first the Napoleonic Wars, Napoleon as Emperor in 1804, his abdication and exile a decade later, then the Bourbon Restoration, painting was on the change as well.
Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825), The Intervention of the Sabine Women (1799), oil on canvas, 385 x 522 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris. Wikimedia Commons.
The dominant Neoclassical style of Jacques-Louis David was on the wane. With the end of Napoleon’s empire, David had been put on the list of proscribed individuals, and had gone into self-exile in Brussels. Following his death at the end of 1825, only his heart was allowed to return to France for burial. Delacroix described David’s The Intervention of the Sabine Women (1799) as “earthy, bleak and lifeless”.
Pierre-Narcisse Guérin (1774–1833), Phaedra and Hippolytus (1815), oil on canvas, dimensions not known, Musée des Beaux-Arts…
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