54″ x 36″
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Rose. After Lempicka’s Seated nude with raised arms

54″ x 48″
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Pines of Rome is a….

Pines of Rome (Italian Pini di Roma) is a symphonic poem written in 1924 by the Italian composer Ottorino Respighi and, together with Fontane di Roma and Feste Romane, forms what is sometimes loosely referred to as his “Roman trilogy”. Each movement depicts the pine trees in different locations in Rome at different times of day.

 

Pines of Rome, Movement IV, The Pines of the Appian Way – performed by The Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra – Conducted by Georges Pretre

The first performance was given under conductor Bernardino Molinari in the Augusteo, Rome, on December 14, 1924.

when I think of the Pines of Rome I like to imagine the bark and the rings of the tree trunks as they grow. the history that those rings represent, the events those pines have witnessed. Especially in a city like Rome! with its rich history of philosophy, music and art. I feel the cyclical connection of time in those rings.
- Paula Arciniega

It is no small wonder that I am always carried on the transports of a kind of configuring-energy when taking brush to hand facing an empty canvas. Albeit the work is accomplished through seeing images, shapes, color and structures, a painting for me is ill-planned if I premeditate its final state. It always comes to the screen of my consciousness as a vivid vision.

Paula Arciniega

36″ x 48″
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Nude Study – La Belle Rafaela after Lempicka

In my pursuit to understand light and form I study the master Tamara De Lempicka

54″ x 60″
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60″ x 54″
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On Display:
Nocturnes
Mahler V
Mahler VIII

48″ x 72″
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Debussy wrote an “introductory note” to Nocturnes as follows:

The title Nocturnes is to be interpreted here in a general and, more particularly, in a decorative sense. Therefore, it is not meant to designate the usual form of the Nocturne, but rather all the various impressions and the special effects of light that the word suggests.

‘Nuages’ renders the immutable aspect of the sky and the slow, solemn motion of the clouds, fading away in grey tones lightly tinged with white.

‘Fêtes’ gives us the vibrating, dancing rhythm of the atmosphere with sudden flashes of light. There is also the episode of the procession (a dazzling fantastic vision), which passes through the festive scene and becomes merged in it. But the background remains resistantly the same: the festival with its blending of music and luminous dust participating in the cosmic rhythm.

‘Sirènes’ depicts the sea and its countless rhythms and presently, amongst the waves silvered by the moonlight, is heard the mysterious song of the Sirens as they laugh and pass on

Five great French composers: Berlioz, César Franck, Saint-Saëns, Debussy, Ravel: Their Lives and Works, by Donald Brook, p. 168