Cocktails with a Curator: Velázquez's "King Philip"
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 พ.ค. 2020
- In this week’s episode of “Cocktails with a Curator,” join Xavier F. Salomon, Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, as he discusses the sole Velázquez painting at the Frick, “King Philip IV of Spain,” while enjoying a Fitifiti, the popular Spanish cocktail. Examine the extraordinary details and painterly skills that illustrate why the artist is regarded by many (including Xavier) as the greatest European painter who ever lived, and why this work was Henry Clay Frick’s favorite.
To see this painting in detail, please visit our website: collections.frick.org/objects...
Yes Yes Yes these are so wonderful as is the Frick Collection - These curators are giving us such a personal touch, make sure that no one ever doubts the value of this personal connection to the individuals who make this institution what it is. This is exactly what we need to make this art and history come alive - the direct communication from the people who have the energy, and the passion for this subject - keep this going long after the virus has abated, it draws us closer to the places by drawing us closer to the people.
This activity gets better and better every week. I am a Spaniard and I thought I knew Velázquez. Still learned a few things during this talk. I watch this every week, and so do my friends in Madrid, and every Sunday morning we discuss during a phone call. This is a great activity and one of the highlights of my confinement months. The cocktail and the robe. So original. Thank you Xavier Salomon.
Xavier,
We agree that Velázquez is the greatest painter. :) Thank you for the insights you provided. Thank you for sharing this with us. I look forward to visiting Frick Collection very soon and appreciating this and the other pieces of art in more depth. You make loving art so much fun.
I'm considering starting a tailgate prior to these talks.
Andrew Thomann. What is it?
Yes, I feel the same way- To me, Velázquez is the best painter who ever lived. I remember visiting the Frick Collection years ago and admiring the details, the embroidery on the cape, so beautiful.
excellent series- Xavier Salomon is an excellent speaker and his comments really bring the paintings and the context in which they were painted to life.
Velazquez depicts textiles so superbly that its hard to take your eyes off his paintings.
Greetings from the heart of New York City two blocks from Times Square. Rather quiet right now!
Thanks Xavier - your presentations are a highlight of the week.
Thanks, Xavier. Always enriching.
These talks are wonderful. You've given structure to my Fridays. Thank you.
Thank you Xavier. Really interesting chapters on the different art pieces you are discussing. It is so informative! Looking forward to watch more!
Magnificent! I am a long-time member of the Frick and salute you for these wonderful discussions by the curators. Bravissimo. Keep it up,
Superb. Balance of scholarship, wit and aesthetic response. Loved the comment about ZOOM .
Wonderful presentation as always. I have been watching from the beginning of the series. Love Velazquez as well as Spanish history and so was in my element. Thank you.
Excellent. Thank you.
Truly Fascinating
Mr. Salamon, your dressing gown is the highlight of this fascinating visit. Thank you!
Thank you Xavier for another informative and delightfully written presentation.Bright Blessings your way,Sr.Clara
This series is just brilliant, I am so grateful!
Fascinating! Thank you, Xavier, for yet another priceless lesson about a priceless piece from the Frick Collection.
Love this series and, particularly, Xavier's droll demeanor -- especially with this absolutely stunning portrait! I feel blessed to have seen it in person and to have this exposition add to my admiration of this superb piece of art! Happy as well to be introduced to and wholly enjoy a glass of "50-50". :-)
Xavier, thank you for these delightful and informative talks! Cheers!
Loving more and more each episode of this serie.
Hi, these are wonderful and thank you for doing so many of them! They are the perfect length.
Thanks X, I make a point of checking in and watching your video's every Friday evening before wrapping up work. I always appreciated the painting of the 'little girl'..Valazquez vividly captures the soft eyes of a child here. Now I realize how much she looks just like her father... : )
Xavier, thank you so much for sharing your abundant knowledge! Very interesting, informative and most importantly, uplifting!
We visited the museum last September as recommended by the Arts Society in the uk and absolutely loved it. Our next visit should have been in April as my son works in New York but.... not to be. These Friday talks, although I watch a day later because of the time difference, have been so enjoyable and knowledgeable . Well done to you all and I sincerely hope to re visit your wonderful museum in the future. Take care and stay safe. This will end . Xx😀👍
Absolutely wonderful. Mil gracias.
This is wonderful! Thank you, curators!
These talks are delightful!
Extraordinary! I'm fascinated by the restoration in 2009, and the discovery that the weave of the canvas matches that in the painting of El Primo. Plus, the portrait of Philip IV standing in for the king, what a theatrical stunt, but the norm for that era. After visiting the Prado, I agree that Velazquez is THE master painter. The flick and stab of the brush, but also the emotional weight in every face. Not to mention how he portrays dogs!
Fabulous. The Angel stature is so beautiful. Thank you.
Thanks Xavier for the entertaining education.
Loved it , looking forward to next week
Thank you Xavier. Your talks are so refreshing and informative, aside from the cocktails, and provide fascinating new insight. How I long to comeback to New York and visit the Frick.
Thank you for
another enjoyable cocktail!
Another wonderful talk. I am so pleased that Salomon and I agree that Velasquez is the greatest painter who ever lived. His influence on later artists, including Manet, the impressionists and more modern artists who dissolve form, supports that opinion. Try standing as close to a Velasquez as the painter painting it did, and you will see that Velasquez accomplished the seemingly impossible with mere paint strokes. The drink sounds great too!
I like how the portrait of Frick seems to echo the pose of King Phillip.
What an enjoyable and informative series!
Love this!
Thank you, as always well presented.
One of my favorites pieces at the Frick Collection! I did not Know that this one was Frick favorite portrait. Interesting and engaging as usual. Thanks a lot for these videos !
Thank you.
Many congratulations once again. I´ve really enjoyed this video a lot and felt proud of this spanish painter, such an accurate and wonderful lesson you have given. Thanks a lot
Wonderfully informative video, perfectly aimed at the average enthusiast. Well done.
As Velasquez and Goya were the spanish Kings favourite painters this portrays I saw and had a copy from my granmother is misterious for mee.I think that time for fighting not only for new lands and women but hard to immegien this dresses sword etc.are on the cavas in bright colours really difficult to paint.It is honour to king Philippe and to the Velasquez to acheve.The poor drewft sitting also a masteriece.I have seen in Escorial other portrait and unbilievable to find the end of this culter.I was very found of Elgrecos works and read it was not so much the taste of the royalties.Anyway thanks again all of you Specially to Mr.Cheaf Currator Salamon
Thank you for this
Interesting outfit to bring in one's luggage on campaign. A very similar 17th century Spanish textile survives in a collection in Jerusalem. In the Franciscan Convent of San Salvatore, there is a chasuble which has been made from a recycled nobleman's costume of salmon coloured silk embroidered in silver which although is not identical, is very close to the costume in the painting and underlines Velazuez's remarkable skill in capturing the effect of the light on the silver embroidery.
The series is so erudite and eloquent. Xavier's knowledge and insights are wonderful. Please do a piece on Titian's Portrait of a Man. The enigmatic and romantic portrait. My favourite painting in the Frick.
Thanks so much!
Agree that Velasquez is the greatest.
thank you so muck
Well, I'm drinking Bota Box Sauvignon Blanc while watching this, but love the video. Thanks so much.
Velaquez is certainly one of the greatest painters that e ver lived!
Grazie Xavier e saluti da Roma. See you next Friday.
Thank you for this fantastic series! Xavier mistakenly noted that Jericho is in Palestine. It is in the West Bank in Israel.
Thank you! And an interesting claim--that Valazquez is the greatest painter!
Well, he said "personally".
I love that we are to think of this gorgeous royal clothing as "outfits". Isn't Philip's head/face shape symptomatic of Hapsburg inbreeding? Wonderful series!
This is one of the paintings I most connect with. I'll be in a class at 'cocktail time'. Will your talk be available at your site afterwards? Gracias!
Just to be clear - that painting of the drawf is Not El Primo which is one of my favorites of Velasquez
The city of Fraga is not in Catalonia but in Aragón ( province of Huesca)
Thank you for yet another an insightful and wonderful talk - your videos are the highlight of lock-down! Just one question on the Velazquez - we are curious to know more about the outfit he is wearing, i.e the textile, pattern and where it was sourced. Following on from the Boucher discussion we thought perhaps it was from the Far East and would love to know more. Many thanks, Ellie.
Just discovered these wonderful talks. Thanks. But I can’t find the cocktail recipe anywhere! More info please .... what sweet sherry?
Estimado don Xavier,
¡Saludos desde Perales del Río (Madrid)! Me ha encantado e iluminado su explicación del retrato de Felipe IV pintado en Fraga por Velázquez. Ya que me gusta tanto el vino de Jerez como la obra de Velázquez, le tengo que preguntar: ¿cuál es el Jerez dulce que usted emplea para hacer el cóctel "Mitad y Mitad"? ¿No será Pedro Ximenez?
It would be useful to understand King Philip's reasons for being painted so often considering his "deformity" (the Hapsburg jaw). Was it much the same as QE1 of England's reason being the copying of portraits so they could act as her presence in localities around the country (ie an early form of propaganda), or some other reason? EDITED TO ADD: I should have waited until the end of the talk for you to answer my own question; it was similar to QE1's use of portraiture in that the portrait was intended to represent the monarch/ruler. Nice! :)
Hey! We drink at work too during lockdown.
The painting of the Spanish King Phillip IV at Boston’s MFA is a 100% facial match (or was last year when I looked at it) with Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook. I laughed for an hour. And with the statue of the Indian on a horse summoning the great spirit outside (to ask when the idiots would stop ripping and robbing), I wondered If it were this King Phillip that the New England colonists mocked Metacom for acting like while they were occupying his lands and blaming Metacom for a war.
You're right: dead ringer for Zuckerberg. Must be rolling in his royal crypt. Speaking of which, do you think Zuckerberg is a crypto-Hapbsburg?
what program are you using to produce these clips? Zoom recording? I am an art historian (two colleges) and am teaching online through 2020. Any tips are highly appreciated. Great job. I may have Happy Hour with the Art Historian for my older adult classes. Smile. Be well.
l am disappointed that nothing was said about the paint of Frick at the beginning of the episode.
Who executed the painting? Is the painting on display at the Frick?
Velazquez received a certain amount of criticism in his date as "Just a portrait painter." But painting portraits is hard, especially making the subject look they almost look like photographs.
Sorry, but the portrait of the dwarf is Sebastian De Morra. El Primo was someone else.
How did the painting go from the Church and the property of the Spanish government to private hands?
Oops, I missed the cocktail!!!
How to make such a beautiful picture from someone so ugly and I watched the video on it's restoration but the best painter? I think not Mr Salomon.
much
As good as Salomon's narrative is, it's still marred by the uneven modulation of his voice. It rises and falls as a function of sentence emphasis, rising and falling, sometimes dropping into virtual unintelligibility.
Velasquez was a good Painter but "sadly" painted his subjects true-to-life....because boy, those Spanish Habsburg Kings sure were pretty to behold.😉 #inbreeding
The drinks are not interesting.