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The paintings I have admired the most usually resonate both at a distance and up close… but in a different way. Looking at Bonnard for...

“When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing. No galleries, no collectors, no critics, no money. Yet, it was a golden age, for we...

There’s another lovely holiday song with Alison Krauss & Robert Plant that I love: “The Light of Christmas Day”. I tried to post the...

One last favorite… for now… is the Evening Prayer from Engelbert Humperdinck’s opera, Hansel und Gretel. This was not composed...

The whole of Yo Yo Ma’s Christmas album is marvelous.

I love the fusion of folk/classical/country with Alison Krauss and Yo Yo Ma.

The Vince Guaraldi Christmas works known from the Charlie Brown Christmas movie remains a favorite.

I have two huge playlists of Christmas music on Spotify. One covers the whole gamut of Seasonal music from medieval choral works through...

Of course the majority of the "old masters" studied within the apprenticeship system under existing masters and/or at art academies.

all the leaves are brown.

That landscape painting is by Frederick Edwin Church: Rainy Season in the Tropics