Alex Doppelgänger's Canvas & Symphonies

I take some paintings. I take some classical music. I put them together. Magic happens!

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"Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin" by Vincent Willem van Gogh Style: Post-Impressionism Accompanied by "Ballade Op. 19" by Gabriel Fauré

[“I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, light flickers, life flows in a clear stream, no matter whether over mud or over stones.” - Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim]

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"Raindrops" by Hiro Yamagata Style: Pop art Accompanied by "Preludes, Livre II - Voiles" by Claude Debussy

[“The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.” - Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat]

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"Spring rain, New York" by John French Sloan  Style: Nouveau réalisme Accompanied by "Piano Concerto No. 2. in F major Op. 102. Movement II. Andante" by Dmitri Shostakovich 

[“Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"..."It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...” - Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden]

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"The Irishman Wouldn't Wear Green" by Robert G. Harris Style: Poster Art Realism Accompanied by "The way you look tonight" by Frank Sinatra

[“She had two lips like strawberries, and the seeds gave her kisses texture. I preferred kissing her over two scoops of vanilla ice cream.” - Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title]

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"L'inspiration" by Ossip Zadkine

Style: Expressionism

Accompanied by "Moments Musicaux Op.16: No.3 Andante Cantabile in B Minor" by  Sergei Rachmaninoff

[“Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.” ― Langston Hughes]

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"The New House" by John Brack Style: Expressionism Accompanied by "Buy Mode 1" (The Sims OST) by Jerry Martin and Marc Russo [“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been” - Rainer Maria Rilke]

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"Christmas at Home" by Grandma Moses​ Style: Naïve art​/Primitivism​ Accompanied by "Chestnuts on an open fire" by John Rutter​ 

[Merry Christmas. Wherever you are, whoever you are.]

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"Ushiwaka and Benkei duelling on Gojo Bridge" by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi Style: Ukiyo-e Accompanied by "Battle Without Honor or Humanity" by Tomoyasu Hotei [“The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions” - Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings]

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"Miyamoto Musashi killing a giant" by Utagawa Kuniyoshi Style: Ukiyo-e Accompanied by "Katana Groove" by Tomoyasu Hotei

[“You can only fight the way you practice” - Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings]

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"The Lie" by Félix Vallotton Style: Cloisonnism Accompanied by "Pavane" by Bill Evans (after Gabriel Fauré) ["After a while you learn the subtle difference Between holding a hand and chaining a soul, And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning And company doesn’t mean security. And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts And presents aren’t promises,

And you begin to accept your defeats With your head up and your eyes open With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child." - Jorge Louis Borges, You Learn]

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"The Sun" by Edvard Munch Style: Expressionism Accompanied by "Piano Concerto No. 2. in F major Op. 102. Movement II. Andante" by Dimitri Shostakovich

[“Even After All this time The Sun never says to the Earth,

"You owe me."

Look What happens With a love like that, It lights the whole sky.” - Hafez]

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"Swans among the reeds at the first Morgenro" by Caspar David Friedrich Style: Romanticism Accompanied by "The Swan" by Edvard Grieg

[“His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.” ― Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling]

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"Venice" by Ivan Aivazovsky Style: Romanticism Accompanied by "Barcarolle (from The Tales of Hoffmann)" by Jacques Offenbach

["Principessa, ci vediamo a Venezia!" - Guido Orefice, La Vita E Bella]

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"Mother & Child" by Barrington Watson Style: Social realism Accompanied by "Canción de cuna para dormir a un negrito" by Xavier Montsalvatge

[“Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.” ― W. B. Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats]

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"Apotheosis of cats" by Théophile Steinlen​ Style: Symbolism​ Accompanied by "Piano and Cello Sonata in D minor" by Claude Debussy​

[“Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.” ― Terry Pratchett​, Men at Arms​]

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"Cocktail party" by Alex Katz​ Style: Expressionism​ Accompanied by "Central Park Sunday (SimCity 3000​ OST)" by Jerry Martin

[“Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.” ― Oscar Wilde​]

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"The Lovers" by John Atkinson Grimshaw Style: Romanticism Accompanied by "Serenade melancolique (violin & piano)" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 

[“Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.” ― Scott Turow]