Author, Lecturer, Broadcaster & Cultural Arts Expert;
President of Art Collage JANG/J Music/J Art/J Books & Media.
Author of over 40 books published on Amazon, including The Crimson Horror series and The Great and Immortal Painters’ Stories series.
Dedicated to sharing insights into art, culture, literature, and creative expression through writing, lectures, media, and content creation.
I had 40th live broadcast of “Pops
Lounge” yesterday in TBN Ulsan Traffic Broadcasting Network’s “Studio1041”. The
second greatest popular musician in music history I introduced yesterday was “The
Rolling Stones”.
I uploaded content of yesterday's broadcast
on YouTube.
Studio 1041 “Pops Lounge” of TBN
Ulsan Traffic Broadcasting Network will be continued at 10:30 am every Tuesday.
A year ago, I got a request from a British
publisher. The publisher is “My Business Client Publishing”, operated by “My
Business Client Ltd (MBC)”, publishing “The Serious Collectors’ Guide”
magazine.
MBC is a company based in Bordon, Hampshire, UK, and
with decades of experience in print, internet, data and advertising services, they
are delivering exceptional standards of design technology, project management
and customer service.
The readers of “The Serious Collectors' Guide”
magazine are collectors, related business owners, investors, financiers of the
industry, along with connoisseurs and high-net worth individuals for collecting
and investing. The magazine serves as the premier guide for their readers, and
for this aiming, they are collecting experiences and knowledge from experts in
their fields around the world.
My article published by “The Serious Collectors’
Guide” magazine is related to Modigliani’s “Self-Portrait”, and the title of
the article is “The Self-Portrait of Amedeo Modigliani: One, Two or More… ?”.
Modigliani has officially two self-portraits to
date. However, the main content of my article is about a portrait of Modigliani
that highly likely to be his third self-portrait, based on years of research
and study.
Edward
Elgar was an English composer born on June 2, 1857 and died on February 23,
1934. Many of his works are included in the British and international classical
concert repertoire.
Elgar's birthplace, Broadheath
His most famous works are orchestral works, including the
Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos for violin and
cello, and two symphonies. He also composed choral works, including The Dream
of Gerontius, and was appointed Master of the King's Musick in 1924.
Elgar's parents
In
general, Elgar is considered as a typical English composer, but most of his
musical influences were not from England but from continental Europe. He felt
himself as an outsider socially as well as musically, and was a self-taught
composer.
In Protestant Britain, he believed in Roman Catholicism, and in many
places they looked at him with suspicion. In addition, in the class-conscious
society of Victorian and Edwardian Britain, he was extremely sensitive about
his humble origins even after he was recognized, but nevertheless married the
daughter of a senior British Army officer.
Edward and his wife Alice Elgar (c.1891)
His
wife inspired Elgar both musically and socially, but he struggled to achieve
success, and when he reached his 40s, his Enigma Variations, became popular in
Britain and overseas. The Dream of Gerontius, his choral work following the
Enigma Variations, has become a core repertory work in Britain and elsewhere.
Edward Elgar (1917)
In
his fifties, Elgar composed a symphony and a violin concerto that were greatly
successful. However, his second symphony and cello concerto did not gain
immediate public popularity and took many years to achieve a regular place in
the concert repertoire of British orchestras.
Edward Elgar, William Rothenstein (1919)
Elgar's music appealed mainly to
British audiences in his later years, and for a generation after his death, it
was undervalued. But in the 1960s, with the help by new recordings of his
works, it began to revive again. Some of his works are played around the world,
but his music is played much more in Britain than elsewhere.
Elgar and the London Symphony Orchestra at the Queen's Hall
Elgar
has been described as the first composer to take the gramophone seriously, and
between 1914 and 1925 he conducted a series of acoustic recordings of his
works.
Edward Elgar, Percival Hedley (1905)
When the introduction of the moving-coil microphone was made in 1923,
much more accurate sound reproduction was possible, and Elgar made new
recordings of most of his major orchestral works and excerpts from The Dream of
Gerontius.
Elgar family grave at St Wulstan's R.C. Church, Little Malvern
Influenced
by:Antoine Watteau, Horace Vernet, Jacob van
Ruisdael
Influenced
on:Alfred Sisley, Claude Monet, Camille Corot
Joseph Mallord William Turner,
known as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and
watercolorist, who was born on April 23, 1775, and died on December 19, 1851.
He is renowned for his expressive colorizations, imaginative landscapes and
turbulent marine paintings.
Turner was born in a modest class
family in London, where he lived all his life. A child prodigy, Turner entered the
Royal Academy of Arts in 1789 when he was 14 years old, where he exhibited his
first work at the age of 15. He opened his own gallery in 1804 and became a
professor at the academy in 1807, where he lectured until 1828.
Turner, who was very private,
unique, and exclusive, was a controversial figure throughout his career. He
never married but had two daughters named Eveline and Georgiana, between his
housekeeper Sarah Danby. He became more pessimistic and demanding as he got
older, especially after his father died.
Turner, who had been in poor health
since 1845, died in London in 1851, and his body was buried in Saint Paul's
Cathedral, London.
He left behind over 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolors and
30,000 artworks on paper.
Modigliani Institute Korea (MIK) is
currently introducing artworks of Amedeo Modigliani one by one every week.
The 33rd work to introduce for this
week is “Beatrice Hastings, Seated (1915)”.
This work is a portrait of an
expressionist style and an oil painting on canvas with the size of 73.5 x 49.5
cm.
This work is one of many paintings
for modeling Beatrice Hastings by Modigliani.
A columnist for the British weekly magazine,
“New Age”, she came to Paris as a correspondent in Paris in 1914 and met
Modigliani.
Hastings was also a woman who was controversial
because of her unusual attire and behavior.
Modigliani and Hastings were lovers
for two years, sharing alcohol and drugs, constantly fighting, and arguing.
Modigliani was a genius artistic, talented
painter who was famous for wonderfully expressing the characters or
personalities of the models in his paintings.
However, this work is unique in
that it is painted so that the character or personality of Hastings is not
recognized at all.
Painted as simple as if it feels
lacking in expressiveness, it seems like this work shows the reappearance of
Modigliani's regret for the sculpture.
Elongated neck, oval head, curved
and simple contours, everything evokes a sculptural style, especially very
similar to the Caryatid style.
There is also no background
decoration except Hastings' chair and the chair is rounded to match the curved
and rounded model.
Hastings' eyes are drawn without
pupils, giving the impression of seeing the background through the eyes.
The model's face and neck were
tilted to the right for a balanced composition against the model, who is sitting
biased to the left, throughout the canvas.
In addition, Hastings' face and her
body including her wrapped arms are in oval form, and it feels like small and large
ovals are symmetrically attached.
For the colors used, Modigliani used
red and warm colors throughout the work, which make Hastings' shadow look like
black smoke from behind her.
