The Four Seasons and Visual Art (Autumn)

Vivaldi's Concerto No. 3 in F major Op. 8 (or 'Autumn') from The Four Seasons is also known as the "Danza Pastorale, because of it's celebration of the pleasure of the rich harvest and the 'freely flowing cup of Bacchus'. So, based on this theme, we've been exploring some of our favourite images related to it:

1. Eric Gill (1882-1940)

Autumn Midnight 1923

2. Paul Gaugin (1848-1903)

Harvest: Le Pouldu 1890

3. Eileen Agar (1899-1991)

The Reaper 1938

4. John Hubbard (b. 1931)

Autumn on the Chesil Bank 1962

5. Cecil Collins (1908-1989)

The Fruit of the Sun 1961

For more information about our concert on 9th March, The Glory of Vivaldi, please follow the link.

The Four Seasons and Visual Art (Summer)

Here's some of our favourite representations of Summer in visual art. We've focused on 'storm', as Vivaldi's Concerto No. 2 in G minor Op. 8, RV 315 "L'estate" (Summer) evokes a thunderstorm in it's final movement and is often in fact called 'Storm'.

1. Howard Hodgkin (1932 – present)

A Storm (1977)

2. Peter Lanyon (1918-1964) 

Zennor Storm (1958)

3. Henry Moore (1898-1986)

Storm at Sea (1970-4)

4. John Piper (1903-1992)

Buckden in a Storm 1977

The Four Seasons and Visual Art (Spring)

With our upcoming performance of the Four Seasons in mind, we’ve been thinking about the parallels between music and visual art. So, we thought in the run up to our concert on the 9^th March, we’d share some of our favourite representations of the seasons with you from the visual arts; starting with Spring:

Spring

(La Primavera) - Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8 RV 269

1. Dame Barbara Hepworth 
(1903-1975)

Spring (1966)

2. Cy Twombly  
(1928-2011)

from Quattro Stagioni (A Painting in Four Parts)

Quattro Stagioni: Primavera (1993-5)