I want to thank Chris for turning Laura and me onto Wendy Beckett<\/A>. Last night, we watched a segment from Sister Wendy - The Complete Collection (Story of Painting\/Grand Tour\/Odyssey\/Pains of Glass): DVD<\/A> on the \"golden ages\" of European painting: the time of Vermeer, Rembrandt, Vel\u00e1zquez, and Poussin. My Matisse kick has stimulated for me a more general interest in the history of Western painting. Although I bombed out with Netflix: Artists of the 20th Century: Henri Matisse<\/A> (which I found to be too dry), I still held out hope that a TV series or multimedia lecture series would be still a great way to learn more about Matisse and art in general. Since I have enjoyed Bach and the High Baroque<\/A>, I turned to the Teaching Company for more<\/A> but was disappointed to find that there is currently no course on modern art. When I mentioned my search to Chris, he reminded me of Sister Wendy.

We found Sister Wendy's comments to be stimulating. I am already looking at Rembrandt and Vel\u00e1zquez in new ways. (I didn't know that much about the them to begin with, so art veterans might have a different take on Wendy Beckett.) The two paintings that stick in my mind from last night are: Rembrandt: Bathsheba at Her Bath<\/A>: <\/P>

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VELAZQUEZ, Diego: Las Meninas<\/A>: <\/P>

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