IMPRESSIONIST painters, composers and authors: can you correlate one from each to that of the other two?

Question

I'm very much aware that few if any will care to respond to my question. Nevertheless, I'm willing to risk there not being any responses. For any interested, Wikipedia was my principal reference source(and I apologize for any misspellings):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressioni…

The "specifics" of my question:

Can you correlate relative to your individual "taste"(what else could it be?), any three members of the below given three categories of painters, composers and authors with each other, in terms of any set of three evoking similar feelings or moods?

Example: Claude Monet/Claude Debussy/Charles Baudelaire.

Should you choose to respond, please, no "quibbling" regarding my choices and absolutely NO SUBSTITUTES: if you don wish to follow my guidelines, then please don't respond((and it would very nice, if you could post any links(of paintings, musical selections, poems/novels, etc)).

Painters:

Claude Monet
Camille Pissarro
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Edgar Degas
Paul Cezanne
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Composers:

Claude Debussy
Maurice Ravel
Erik Satie
Ottorino Respighi
Frederick Delius
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Authors:

Charles Baudelaire
Virginia Wolf
Joseph Conrad
Stephanie Mallarme
Paul Verlaine

I realize that some of the above are controversial regarding inclusion within an "Impressionist" context; but again, please, no quibbling.

Alberich

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"MissLimLam": you are absolutely amazing; if there are no other responses to this question, it still would have been very worthwhile posting, solely for your response - many thanks.

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Thanks to you all for your responses.

Much appreciate your time and effort - know that such a question is more demanding than most.

A really difficult choice to choose a best one.

Answer 1

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker

Hi Alberich,

An interesting question, to be sure!

Well, my Impressionist threesome consists of Monet, Delius and Wolff, all bound by the fact that they each suffered from severe depression.

I've chosen what I believe to be some of the darkest examples of their art:

Monet: "Madame Monet and her Son" (I don't know why this makes me feel so bleak - maybe it's the dark umbrella on a fine day...)

http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Madame-Mon…


Delius: "Brigg Fair" (I've always found this to be a depressing piece of music - purely subjective opinion, of course.)

http://video.google.com.au/videosearch?h…


Wolff: "To the Lighthouse" - easily her most gloomy novel, in my eyes - the main character's weird hyper-sensitive nature and the way it destroys hopes and dreams is profoundly depressing...

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Oh dear - now I feel really glum...right, I'm definitely dragging out my Monty Python DVDs tonight - though come to think of it, John Cleese also suffers from severe depression...

Hafwen xoxox

Asker's Rating:

Asker's Comment:

After very careful viewing(and re-viewing), I felt that the mood, "spirit" of your three choices, were somewhat more similar to each other, than that of the other responders.

And sorry, that the end result of your efforts was depressing for you.

Answer 2

My correlation:

Degas - Woman in the Bath http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co…

Ravel - Second movement (Oiseaux tristes/Sad Birds) of his "Mirrors."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZxjtuvnT…

Paul Verlaine - Élégies (sorry but I cant find them online. More that I cant be bothered searching through French websites! This website gives links that look promising http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/… )


I do not really have a reason for "correlating" these three works, but I think they work! "Woman in the bath" is such an ordinary (or realistic) scene... and at first glance I do not think it particularly beautiful, but the more I look at it, the more I see the subtle beauty in the brush strokes. So it is this subtle beauty that made me think of Ravel, and his "sad birds." I picked the Elegies as there is other things (art) with this title, that has a more stylised version of the subject in Degas' painting....

I do hope that made sense! What a fun question!

Source(s):

P.S
I think we should re-do this question for baroque painting, and music... but not writing! The writing was terribly odd.. wonderful, but it didnt compare to the music or art.

Answer 3

Okay here goes...

Camille Pissarro - The garden at Pontoise
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pissar…

Frederick Delius - 'On Hearing The First Cuckoo In Spring'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYXNJcvIy…

Virginia Wolf - 'Mrs Dalloway'
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/vi…


Interesting to see what the other's have chosen.

Duchess.

Answer 4

I will go with a very simple correlation of Monet/Ravel/Baudelaire, focusing on...sunshine.
The Monet painting I picked was the one that coined the name "Impressionism" which is of course "Impression, soleil levant".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Claude…
And the Ravel I picked to go along with this painting is obvious: "Daybreak" from suite no. 2 of Daphnis et Chloé.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyMHv5b2V…
And I chose Baudelaire's poem "le soleil" to go along with this painiting and this music.
http://fleursdumal.org/poem/101
Yes, I choose to pick the obvious today.

Answer 5

Hi Alberich! I'd kissed good-bye to this forum for a few months, but your questions keep popping up in my email and I couldn't resist :)

I'm actually not crazy about Impressionist music (I only really like some Ravel), so it's hard for me to throw the music part into the mix! As these are all my favorites out of your choices, I guess they must have something in common :)

Renoir/Ravel/Baudelaire?

I love love love Renoir:

http://www.abcgallery.com/R/renoir/renoi…
http://www.bentbay.dk/Renoir/renoir_1.jp…
http://www.poster.net/renoir-auguste/ren…
http://www.britishmint.com/art_gallery.h…

Baudelaire doesn't really fit, he's too dark, but none of the authors really fit. I've never been much of a fan of Monet/Debussy, they're both a little too wishy-washy for me! Renoir is so much better somehow- delicate but still with substance.