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Underwater Beauty - Nature In Pencil A magical collection of pencil drawings, of the wild and amazing power of the world beneath the oceans...Get it now!
John Constable was the first English landscape painter to take no lessons from the Dutch. He is rather indebted to the landscapes of Rubens, but his real model was Gainsborough, whose landscapes, with great trees planted in well-balanced masses on land sloping upwards towards the frame, have a rhythm often found in Rubens. Constable’s originality does not lie in his choice of subjects, which frequently repeated themes beloved by Gainsborough. Nevertheless, Constable seems to belong to a new century; he ushered in a new era. The difference in his approach results both from technique and feeling. Excepting the French, Constable was the first landscape painter to consider as a primary and essential task the sketch made direct from nature at a single sitting; an idea which contains in essence the destinies of modern landscape, and perhaps of most modern painting. It is this momentary impression of all things which will be the soul of the future work. Working at leisure upon the large canvas, an artist’s aim is to enrich and complete the sketch while retaining its pristine freshness. These are the two processes to which Constable devoted himself, while discovering the exuberant abundance of life in the simplest of country places. He had the palette of a creative colourist and a technique of vivid hatchings heralding that of the French impressionists. He audaciously and frankly introduced green into painting, the green of lush meadows, the green of summer foliage, all the greens which, until then, painters had refused to see except through bluish, yellow, or more often brown spectacles. Of the great landscape painters who occupied so important a place in nineteenth-century art, Corot was probably the only one to escape the influence of Constable. All the others are more or less direct descendants of the master of East Bergholt.Show book
Comedian Kris Tinkle has been making his mark on the New York City stand up scene since he moved there from his native San Francisco. He was the co-host and resident comedian on Comedy By Request on SiriusXM Raw Dog. He has appeared on DirecTV’s The Artie Lange Show, is a regular on SiriusXM Radio’s “Friday’s with Breuer” and “Tap Out Radio,” and has been featured in the New York Comedy Festival, The Download Music Festival, and SF Sketch Fest.Show book
Sheridan’s most famous play, The School for Scandal, has been called ‘the best existing English comedy of intrigue’. A favorite with audiences and critics alike since its premiere in 1777, this play is a classic English comedy of manners. Full of satirical wit, it subverts the Georgian social mores of its day with subtlety and charm. This historic recording features Edith Evans, Cecil Parker, and Harry Andrews: some of the finest actors of their generation.Show book
Playwright David Fishelson has adapted Dostoyevsky’s masterpiece The Brothers Karamazov into a spellbinding full-cast drama. The passionate Karamazov brothers spring to life, led by their rogue of a father, who entertains himself by drinking, womanizing, and pitting his three sons against each other. The men have plenty to fight over, including the alluring Grushenka. An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring: John de Lancie as Ivan Karamazov Sharon Gless as Grushenka Arye Gross as Alyosha Karamazov Harry Hamlin as Dmitry Karamazov Kaitlin Hopkins as Katerina Joseph Mascolo as Fyodor Richard Hoyt Miller as Miusov/Waiter/Mussyalovich/Judge Sergeant John Randolph as Zossima/Visitor John Rubinstein as Smerdyakov Tom Virtue as Father Joseph/Pawnbroker/Vrublevsky/Prosecutor/Coachman Ping Wu as Rakitin/Father Paissy/Innkeeper/Defense Attorney Directed by David Fishelson. Recorded before a live audience at the Guest Quarters Suite Hotel, Santa Monica in June of 1994.Show book
Scornful of men and the love they profess for her, Gwendolen Harleth is a beautiful but spoiled young woman, frustrated by her limited options in Victorian England. Daniel Deronda is an intelligent, handsome young man who has been raised by his guardian, Sir Hugo Mallinger, but knows nothing of his true origins. Deronda’s search leads him into the world of 19th-century Zionism, a discovery that will alter the course of his life.An original L.A. Theatre Works commission, adapted and directed by Kate McAll. Includes an audience talkback about George Eliot with Hilary Schor, Professor of English, Comparative Literature and Law at USC.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring:Edita Brychta as Mother, Madame von Langen and othersBarry Creyton as Sir Hugo Mallinger and Lord BrackenshawIfan Meredith as Daniel DerondaCerris Morgan-Moyer as Aunt Nancy and othersKimberley Nixon as Gwendolen HarlethDarren Richardson as Mordecai, Hans, and othersHelen Sadler as Mirah LapidothJulian Sands as Henleigh Mallinger GrandcourtAndré Sogliuzzo as Uncle Henry and othersWith Kate Burton as George Eliot/NarratorRecorded live in performance at UCLA’s James Bridges Theater in March 2018.Show book
Exploring Edinburgh is an expansive and stylishly formatted guide to the best of Edinburgh's architecture. Not only does it give a brief history of each architectural site but also includes easy to understand maps and suggested walking routes. It also explores locations outside the centre of Edinburgh for those with more time to explore the rich architectural landscape of Scotland's capital.Show book
