The Four Seasons and Visual Art (Winter)

The Glory of Vivaldi is fast-approaching. So, to round off our series on The Four Seasons and Visual Art, we take a look at Winter:

Concerto No. 4 in F minor, Op. 8  "L'inverno" (Winter)

1. LS Lowry (1887-1976)

Winter in Broughton 1969-72

 

2. Sir Terry Frost (1915-2003)

Winter 1956, Yorkshire  1956

3. Ben Nicholson (1894-1982)

1928 (foothills, Cumberland) 1928

 

4. Alfred Manessier (1911-1993)

-12°  1956

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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

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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