The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #68893 Message #1163861
Posted By: JohnInKansas
17-Apr-04 - 02:16 PM
Thread Name: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
Subject: RE: Paintings of folk musicians and dancers
My "at hand" selection of music themed art runs pretty much to the "old classics," but if not appropriate to this search, maybe someone else will pick something up here.
I've linked to the "Artist Pages" below, since many of the "full size" images available are very large. Scroll down, if necessary, and click on the ones of interest to get the larger views. Quite a few images are available at the main site cited in "regular" and "hi-res," and the high resolution ones often are, by web standards, enormous.
A "lively" pair of pieces at Adolphe Alexandre Lesrel has The Musical Trio, 1890 and Gentlemen's Pleasures, 1885 both near the bottom of the page.
Not a painting of anything musical, per se, but the Detail for Vittore Carpaccio's Presentation of Jesus in the Temple [detail: 1], 1510 is something of a "musical favorite" of mine.
Frans Hals Buffoon Playing a Lute, c.1623 is maybe a worn-out "classic." (last one on the page)
Bloemaert's The Bagpiper might be of interest. A very well known painting, and maybe a little overexposed, but still nice.
Antiveduto Gramatica's The Theorbo Player, c. 1615 is a good piece. I haven't seen a "folk theorbo" anywhere in my neighborhood recently, but I doubt if he's playing heavy metal.
Gerrit van Honthorst's A young woman playing a viola da gamba is such a cheery piece that I have it on as my desktop, but then I don't get a lot of company in the house.
Emile-Jean-Horace Vernet's Village Musicians, 1832 might fit in nicely. An older era, perhaps; but definitely "folky."
If they might be appropriate to your "audience," you might take a look at the pipers and dancers by Robin Buick (3 pages starting at the link). I believe some of his pieces are available, if statuary fits into your collection, and a good photo of statuary sometimes works in a gallery collection.
SEARCH HELP:
If you identify other pictures of interest, you may be able to find very good quality images by consulting the Artist Index at artrenewal.org.
Another excellent museum that may have appropriate older works is at Web Gallery of Art, Artist Index.
For more general searches, especially if you have an artist's name, try Art Cyclopedia. They try to index all the "good art" accessible on the web, and do get into some pretty "niche" places.
While I hate to make what may sound like a "commercial pitch," should you run into difficulty finding good prints of a piece that they have: (from their home page)
"ARC now offers high quality Prints on Heavy Fine Art Board that must be shipped flat unlike posters. ARC is very pleased to offer a truly unique service. We now have the ability to custom print a single poster on demand from any one of the planned 50,000 images on our site."
The "artboard" prints are of selected images, Giclée process, and seem to be reasonably (competitively) priced. Although I haven't met one "in person," I would expect the quality to be good. The general "any image" prints may be on photo quality paper, and of course the print quality will depend somewhat on the available image file for the particular one you want. The "planned 50,000 images" now stands at 28,364, according to their banner, although it's growing by 1 or 2 hundred per month in recent months.
While I haven't seen their posters first hand, I can attest that the "run of the mill" images at the site generally (with a very few exceptions) print very nicely at the 13 x 19 inches I can ram through my printer.
Don't forget to plan for including a suitable frame, appropriate to the subject and to the place where you plan to hang it. Good framing is often about as expensive as the good print, but can add a lot to how well a display "wears on you."
John