I hope you enjoyed this month's episode of Seek Out the Arts! If you're interested in joining The Chic Society channel memberships check out the details here ruclips.net/channel/UCEnEnLT5wBVnK56QFRg_Iwgjoin I would love to hear your thoughts on this month's selections and if you have any suggestions for future episodes please leave them in the comments below. Thank you for watching! Love, Jennifer
This was such an enjoyable and absorbing episode! My story for the painting is the following flight of fancy 😄 The bride is indeed marrying for money, to rescue her family from the financial ruin in which they find themselves - thanks to the gambling debts of her father, the man seen standing somewhat shamefacedly behind but between the bride and groom's faces... To her right is her widowed brother and his children, and her elderly maternal grandmother. Her mother is absent, having died when giving birth to her. The two elderly gents gossiping are maternal uncles, who are discussing the reprehensible situation brought on the bride by her father... To the left of the elderly, and evidently well-heeled, groom we find his four children from his previous marriage, and his two eldest daughters are discussing their soon-to-be stepmother, who differs from them in age by a mere year or two. The groom looks rather sombre because while he has snagged his young, luscious bride, his mood is dampened by the piercing knowledge of her obvious despair at being forced to marry him while the love of her life - handsome, kind and strapping but penniless - Tom, with his flashing green eyes and black, wavy hair drinks himself into oblivion in the local ale house, as there is no way he can bear witness to these nuptials. (Or does he? I think Ruby the voluptuous barmaid is going to tell him he's a royal fool and coward for not fighting for his woman, and just before the bride says "I do", he will burst into the church, drunk enough to be brave but sober enough to be sensible (if bursting into a wedding ceremony can be considered sensible!), and after threatening to sock it to the groom if he dares stop them, grabs the bride's hand - she who suddenly has fire in her eyes and tosses down her bouquet of white blossoms and rips off her veil - and they flee from the village in the pouring rain on the back of his pitch black horse, leaving the congregation in confused mayhem. And Granny grins as she remembers eloping with the love of her life all those years ago... 😉
My Dad would always read us classic literature and poetry in the evenings and I had forgotten about him ready us "The Tyger" until now. What a nice memory to have :)
Hearing Tyger! Tyger! reminded me of school; it brings the colours of red and orange to my mind (probably the idea of nature red in tooth and claw). One of my all time favourite paintings is Evelyn De Morgan's "The Garden of Opportunity", crammed full of post Pre-Raphaelite symbolism, and it's amazingly colourful. I'm lucky to be able to see this in person, and have stood before it for ages taking in the beauty and the story.
Someone should video me when I discover you’ve posted a “Seek out the Arts’ “ episode 👏. In many books I have read from that era, I have seen young women marrying older gentlemen for status and money. I love when you examine paintings and point out things!
I adore this series as it’s so enriching, hearing your thoughts and encouraging us to reflect on it ❤ The poems are beautiful, in spite of english is not my native language, I could feel the rhythm and its magnificence ❤
This was great. I notice that the young gentlemen’s (on the left) has his hand on the arm of the older seated woman, which must be his mother. They both look disappointed. That man and the bride are leaning together suggesting some sort of connection like you said and his mother(?) is supporting him almost like a flying buttress on a cathedral.
I love this series! I’m also of the opinion the bride married for money, probably forced into the marriage, and her heart belongs to the man on her right. The groom is probably aware of all this, and just wants to get her away. The poems are lovely and I will definitely be checking the you tube channel for the young pianist.
As soon as you said Tyger by William Blake my brain went “Tyger, Tyger, burning bright….” It’s been 51 years since I learned this poem in high school. Thank you, Mrs. Coleman.
One of the other paintings you showed reminds me of the painting The Lady of Shallot by John William Waterhouse. Thank you for this thought provoking video Jennifer! 👰👴🏻
Hi Jennifer! I love this series. The painting is rather sad. I hope she had a baby to bring her joy, haha. I had mentioned in a previous episode about American artist Robert Ried and his painting Tending the Garden. The woman resembles you in an uncanny way. It is a lovely painting.
With regard to the painting, it’s worth remembering that many marriages were arranged amongst influential families to gain money, land, prestige. Often the women had no say in this at all but were used as bargaining chattels . Being Scottish, Mary Queen of Scots comes to mind who married several times because that was what was expected of her - unlike her cousin Queen Elizabeth 1 who must have been VERY strong to have remained unmarried despite knowing that she was putting the succession into jeopardy. I feel so sorry for these women and so thankful for the period we live in nowadays. X
Thank you so much for your deep thoughts and this uplifting video! I enjoyed absolutely everything so much. Just beautiful. This painting is wonderful and also so poignantly sad. I have never seen it before, and loved learning about it. 💕♥️🥰🌷
I found a very similar painting by Vasili Pukirev called "The Unequal Marriage" which shows a young and unhappy looking bride with a much older man. He is practically sneering at her.
Dear Jennifer, Thank you for this lovely respite. I am so happy to see a new Seek Out the Arts. ❤ Joseph Pearce has edited a very lovely, heirloom quality book (soft leather-bound) anthology of poems that every child should know. It is filled with extraordinarily beautiful poems, all the classics really. After each poems are little “food for thought” type comments which make teaching them to children enjoyable. My daughter recently read “Lochinvar” by Scott, and it was beautiful. There are also funnier poems sprinkled throughout. Do you know Belloc’s Cautionary Tales for Children? If you are in need of a good laugh, you might want to check them out.🙃
Thank you for a very enlightening video. The poem reminds me of Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia: “Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion." "Ooh" said Susan. "I'd thought he was a man. Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion"..."Safe?" said Mr Beaver ..."Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you.”
The best poem If, of thy mortal goods, thou are bereft, And from thy slender store two loaves alone to thee are left, sell one, and from the dole Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul Muslihuddin Sadi, 13th Century Persian Poet
Hi Jennifer, i love this series. I think it would be great if you also explored poetry from countries other than America and England. May i suggest the poem "Ithaca" by the great Greek poet Constantin Kavafis? I think you will like it very much.
I also enjoy this series, "Seek out the Arts." I miss going to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. This painter Edmund Leighton I would confuse with Frederic Leighton at the MFA with a favorite painting of mine, The Painter's Honeymoon. It saddens me that many women did not have a choice to marry. Thank you again for this wonderful series!
Hi Jennifer I've always loved the Robert Frost poem nothing gold can stay. It is the first paragraph of the wonderful book "The outsiders" that was written by a 15 year old girl S.E. Hinton. A classic novel and poem. Thank you for your wonderful videos.
Such a sad painting. It's like this poor lady knows how her life will now be. I look forward to these videos. There is so much to discover in the Arts.
The Tyger has always been one of my favorite poems, to the extent that I learned it by heart. I think the language is so beautiful as well as the idea of being overcome with awe that God could create such a magnificently fierce creature. My favorite line is "And when the stars threw down their spears and watered heaven with their tears," such beautiful imagery!
I wonder if the four young people on the left of the painting might be the bride’s siblings, for whom the bride is making this choice to marry for riches.
As you mentioned, it was very common for very old men to marry very young brides. The marriages were arranged. The story that comes to mind is Consuelo Vanderbilt. Her family was very rich but not very well respected among the elites. The man she married (the name escapes me) had no money but was British and had a title. It was not a happy marriage. I think mainly it was done to get her mother respected among the elites in NY.
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by Pieter Bruegel the Elder is an interesting piece. It has a poem that is fun to study along side it called Musee des Beaux Arts by W.H. Auden.
I recently visited a museum exhibit and was struck and moved by the painting "The End of the Working Day," by Jules Breton. I think you would like this painting too! The quality of light, the detail, and the story it tells. I love this series and look forward to it every month!
The Blake poem reminded me of another Blake poem, Ah! Sunflower. “Who countest the steps of the Sun. There are wonderful Blake original drawings at the Huntington Museum near Pasadena CA.
The same details about the painting leapt out at me before I even clicked on your post to learn more, and your observations about it seem spot on. There was a lot of commentary on the traditional vs. changing dynamic between men and women, the role money and family connections played, and so forth in German and Scandinavian literature (and painting) from the mid-19th century onward. Love was rarely part of the equation for the middle and upper classes of the era. Certain Ibsen and Strindberg works, of the 1870s and 80s for example, examine the issue in detail.
Oh. my goodness, I did not expect that W. Blake poem on tDC. For me this poem will always remind of my favorite tv series Mentalist, since whole series is centered around that poem, and it is dark. Banality of darkness around us and excuse of evil. This poem is portraited there on screen as a quite antichristian, since it equates good and evil. I know, not what one wants to hear on Monday morning😁. None the less this tv series to me is one of the most profound that ever was produced on American TV.
Good afternoon from Spain, Jennifer. I would love for you to study the painting "Cosiendo La Vela," or in English, "Sewing The Sail," by the Spanish painter of light, Sorolla. Thank you so much for your inspiring work. God bless you and your family.
Tigers control the overgrown of the ecosystem. My question is. We humans do not encounter tiger in a regular basics but, we keep responding to challenges like we are in front of a tiger ready to charge. Is it possible to undo the natural response that we carry in our DNA, or the confort of life have left Us stuck and no evolving with nature.
Dr. Robert saplosky (spelling?) discusses this in his lectures describing how our bodies have not evolved to stress and stress responses. His lectures are interesting and available on RUclips
I hope you enjoyed this month's episode of Seek Out the Arts! If you're interested in joining The Chic Society channel memberships check out the details here ruclips.net/channel/UCEnEnLT5wBVnK56QFRg_Iwgjoin I would love to hear your thoughts on this month's selections and if you have any suggestions for future episodes please leave them in the comments below. Thank you for watching! Love, Jennifer
This was such an enjoyable and absorbing episode! My story for the painting is the following flight of fancy 😄
The bride is indeed marrying for money, to rescue her family from the financial ruin in which they find themselves - thanks to the gambling debts of her father, the man seen standing somewhat shamefacedly behind but between the bride and groom's faces... To her right is her widowed brother and his children, and her elderly maternal grandmother. Her mother is absent, having died when giving birth to her.
The two elderly gents gossiping are maternal uncles, who are discussing the reprehensible situation brought on the bride by her father...
To the left of the elderly, and evidently well-heeled, groom we find his four children from his previous marriage, and his two eldest daughters are discussing their soon-to-be stepmother, who differs from them in age by a mere year or two.
The groom looks rather sombre because while he has snagged his young, luscious bride, his mood is dampened by the piercing knowledge of her obvious despair at being forced to marry him while the love of her life - handsome, kind and strapping but penniless - Tom, with his flashing green eyes and black, wavy hair drinks himself into oblivion in the local ale house, as there is no way he can bear witness to these nuptials. (Or does he? I think Ruby the voluptuous barmaid is going to tell him he's a royal fool and coward for not fighting for his woman, and just before the bride says "I do", he will burst into the church, drunk enough to be brave but sober enough to be sensible (if bursting into a wedding ceremony can be considered sensible!), and after threatening to sock it to the groom if he dares stop them, grabs the bride's hand - she who suddenly has fire in her eyes and tosses down her bouquet of white blossoms and rips off her veil - and they flee from the village in the pouring rain on the back of his pitch black horse, leaving the congregation in confused mayhem.
And Granny grins as she remembers eloping with the love of her life all those years ago... 😉
She's marrying for money due to the obligation to help her family financially. I've decided.
My Dad would always read us classic literature and poetry in the evenings and I had forgotten about him ready us "The Tyger" until now. What a nice memory to have :)
Hearing Tyger! Tyger! reminded me of school; it brings the colours of red and orange to my mind (probably the idea of nature red in tooth and claw). One of my all time favourite paintings is Evelyn De Morgan's "The Garden of Opportunity", crammed full of post Pre-Raphaelite symbolism, and it's amazingly colourful. I'm lucky to be able to see this in person, and have stood before it for ages taking in the beauty and the story.
Oh, that's a great one to study in the future. Thank you!
Someone should video me when I discover you’ve posted a “Seek out the Arts’ “ episode 👏. In many books I have read from that era, I have seen young women marrying older gentlemen for status and money. I love when you examine paintings and point out things!
Thank you for watching!
Great comments on "The Tyger." I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Thank you!
I adore this series as it’s so enriching, hearing your thoughts and encouraging us to reflect on it ❤
The poems are beautiful, in spite of english is not my native language, I could feel the rhythm and its magnificence ❤
This was great. I notice that the young gentlemen’s (on the left) has his hand on the arm of the older seated woman, which must be his mother. They both look disappointed. That man and the bride are leaning together suggesting some sort of connection like you said and his mother(?) is supporting him almost like a flying buttress on a cathedral.
I'm also looking at the lady with the young children slightly behind him....and wondering whether she is his wife, and those are his children :(
Yes, she could be his mother! Or maybe the bride's grandmother...
I love this series! I’m also of the opinion the bride married for money, probably forced into the marriage, and her heart belongs to the man on her right. The groom is probably aware of all this, and just wants to get her away. The poems are lovely and I will definitely be checking the you tube channel for the young pianist.
As soon as you said Tyger by William Blake my brain went “Tyger, Tyger, burning bright….” It’s been 51 years since I learned this poem in high school. Thank you, Mrs. Coleman.
One of the other paintings you showed reminds me of the painting The Lady of Shallot by John William Waterhouse.
Thank you for this thought provoking video Jennifer!
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I think you would enjoy reading "Rembrandt in the Wind" by Russ Ramsey. Thank you for this series. I truly enjoy it!
Hi Jennifer! I love this series. The painting is rather sad. I hope she had a baby to bring her joy, haha. I had mentioned in a previous episode about American artist Robert Ried and his painting Tending the Garden. The woman resembles you in an uncanny way. It is a lovely painting.
I hope she will one day start with a monthly video about the books she reads and her favourite books.
I think it’s interesting to think about all the characters in this painting and about what they are feeling. Thank you.
Woohoo, seek out the arts is back
With regard to the painting, it’s worth remembering that many marriages were arranged amongst influential families to gain money, land, prestige. Often the women had no say in this at all but were used as bargaining chattels . Being Scottish, Mary Queen of Scots comes to mind who married several times because that was what was expected of her - unlike her cousin Queen Elizabeth 1 who must have been VERY strong to have remained unmarried despite knowing that she was putting the succession into jeopardy. I feel so sorry for these women and so thankful for the period we live in nowadays. X
She was definitely forced. If she were marrying out of greed, she would at least be happy about that.
Thank you so much for your deep thoughts and this uplifting video! I enjoyed absolutely everything so much. Just beautiful. This painting is wonderful and also so poignantly sad. I have never seen it before, and loved learning about it. 💕♥️🥰🌷
You look incredible on the thumbnail! Dark colours suit you very well❤
I found a very similar painting by Vasili Pukirev called "The Unequal Marriage" which shows a young and unhappy looking bride with a much older man. He is practically sneering at her.
Dear Jennifer,
Thank you for this lovely respite. I am so happy to see a new Seek Out the Arts. ❤ Joseph Pearce has edited a very lovely, heirloom quality book (soft leather-bound) anthology of poems that every child should know. It is filled with extraordinarily beautiful poems, all the classics really. After each poems are little “food for thought” type comments which make teaching them to children enjoyable. My daughter recently read “Lochinvar” by Scott, and it was beautiful. There are also funnier poems sprinkled throughout. Do you know Belloc’s Cautionary Tales for Children? If you are in need of a good laugh, you might want to check them out.🙃
Jesus is the Lion and the Lamb. I love the thought that the creation reflects something of it's Creator.
The last poem is definitely one to contemplate. Thank you for sharing with us! ❤
That is my favorite Frost poem and has been for years. ❤️
Thank you for a very enlightening video. The poem reminds me of Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia:
“Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion." "Ooh" said Susan. "I'd thought he was a man. Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion"..."Safe?" said Mr Beaver ..."Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you.”
The best poem
If, of thy mortal goods, thou are bereft,
And from thy slender store two loaves alone to thee are left,
sell one, and from the dole
Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul
Muslihuddin Sadi, 13th Century Persian Poet
I love that explanation of the Tyger poem, and how it reflects our Creator! Our God is an awesome God. I'm so happy Seek the Arts are back. ❤
Hi Jennifer, i love this series. I think it would be great if you also explored poetry from countries other than America and England. May i suggest the poem "Ithaca" by the great Greek poet Constantin Kavafis? I think you will like it very much.
How do we know that's not her father walking her down the isle?
I'm wondering this too. Maybe there's commentary from the painter himself?
Because they are walking UP the aisle.
I also enjoy this series, "Seek out the Arts." I miss going to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. This painter Edmund Leighton I would confuse with Frederic Leighton at the MFA with a favorite painting of mine, The Painter's Honeymoon. It saddens me that many women did not have a choice to marry. Thank you again for this wonderful series!
Lovely to rebound by.
Enjoyed watching this really interesting video. The wedding picture certainly looked solemn and the poems make us think of life 🙂
A lot of similarities with masterpiece of Pukirev named Unequal marriage which was painted in 1862
Hi Jennifer, I think you would appreciate Australian artists from the Heidelberg school, Roberts, Streeton and McCubbin are my favourites. ❤❤
Hi Jennifer I've always loved the Robert Frost poem nothing gold can stay. It is the first paragraph of the wonderful book "The outsiders" that was written by a 15 year old girl S.E. Hinton. A classic novel and poem. Thank you for your wonderful videos.
Could the children on the bride’s right be the groom’s children? Perhaps the groom is a widower and is marrying for the second time?
We are studying William Blake in our homeschool, and “the tyger” is one of our recitations!
An artist suggest-
Albrecht Dürer ❤
Such a sad painting. It's like this poor lady knows how her life will now be. I look forward to these videos. There is so much to discover in the Arts.
Art recommendation : Juan Luna.a great controversial artist.
The Tyger has always been one of my favorite poems, to the extent that I learned it by heart. I think the language is so beautiful as well as the idea of being overcome with awe that God could create such a magnificently fierce creature. My favorite line is "And when the stars threw down their spears and watered heaven with their tears," such beautiful imagery!
Everything is balanced in nature, as the intended Duality in Creation, by the Creator.
Please come to our Art Museum in Saint Louis! It's free and has a wide variety.
I wonder if the four young people on the left of the painting might be the bride’s siblings, for whom the bride is making this choice to marry for riches.
With the painting, I wondered if her Father made her marry the rich man.
As you mentioned, it was very common for very old men to marry very young brides. The marriages were arranged. The story that comes to mind is Consuelo Vanderbilt. Her family was very rich but not very well respected among the elites. The man she married (the name escapes me) had no money but was British and had a title. It was not a happy marriage. I think mainly it was done to get her mother respected among the elites in NY.
Yes, that is such a tragic story!
That man looks like the artist.
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by Pieter Bruegel the Elder is an interesting piece. It has a poem that is fun to study along side it called Musee des Beaux Arts by W.H. Auden.
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I recently visited a museum exhibit and was struck and moved by the painting "The End of the Working Day," by Jules Breton. I think you would like this painting too! The quality of light, the detail, and the story it tells. I love this series and look forward to it every month!
The Blake poem reminded me of another Blake poem, Ah! Sunflower. “Who countest the steps of the Sun. There are wonderful Blake original drawings at the Huntington Museum near Pasadena CA.
The same details about the painting leapt out at me before I even clicked on your post to learn more, and your observations about it seem spot on. There was a lot of commentary on the traditional vs. changing dynamic between men and women, the role money and family connections played, and so forth in German and Scandinavian literature (and painting) from the mid-19th century onward. Love was rarely part of the equation for the middle and upper classes of the era. Certain Ibsen and Strindberg works, of the 1870s and 80s for example, examine the issue in detail.
Art subject request:
How about Titian? I love his surprising use of red.
Oh. my goodness, I did not expect that W. Blake poem on tDC. For me this poem will always remind of my favorite tv series Mentalist, since whole series is centered around that poem, and it is dark.
Banality of darkness around us and excuse of evil. This poem is portraited there on screen as a quite antichristian, since it equates good and evil. I know, not what one wants to hear on Monday morning😁. None the less this tv series to me is one of the most profound that ever was produced on American TV.
Good afternoon from Spain, Jennifer. I would love for you to study the painting "Cosiendo La Vela," or in English, "Sewing The Sail," by the Spanish painter of light, Sorolla. Thank you so much for your inspiring work. God bless you and your family.
Thank you for the request!
@@TheDailyConnoisseur My pleasure 🙏
@@C_Gomez888 sorolla is amazing; and quite underrated. Nice request!
@@Dulce_Domum so true! Thank you, Dulce 🙏🏻✨️🌹✨️🙏🏻
Tigers control the overgrown of the ecosystem. My question is. We humans do not encounter tiger in a regular basics but, we keep responding to challenges like we are in front of a tiger ready to charge. Is it possible to undo the natural response that we carry in our DNA, or the confort of life have left Us stuck and no evolving with nature.
Dr. Robert saplosky (spelling?) discusses this in his lectures describing how our bodies have not evolved to stress and stress responses. His lectures are interesting and available on RUclips
Jennifer, it looks to me like they are walking down the isle after being married. What do you think???
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