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Painted that painting with his song. wlees a serious painter. he taught me all kinds of things about art about the painters that he loved john singer sargent and when he sang he was kind of using a paint brush. you know you could feel the oil brush the texture the way he colored, the way that he would color the words, the way he would tell the story and sing the song and phrase it the rhythms that he used the notes that he chose. it is was like had a painter. it had that kind of beauty. >> that's really lovely. did he ever give you any advice or pearls of wisdom that you remember? >> sure ther...

Communicative. and you know, there's something else. i'm thinking about when i was listening to him. and listening to him paint that beautiful picture with a song. tony bennett was a very accomplished painter. he was really a serious painter. and, oh, he taught me all kinds of things about art. about the painters that he loved, john singer sergeant and zorne. and when he sang, he was kind of using a paintbrush, you know, you could feel the oil paint, you could see it, you could feel the texture, the way that he colored. the way that he would color the words, the way he would tell the story and...

Of this tradition where western artists have heard about the harem as this sort of forbidden realm, where turkish women would — well, this is an entertainment with guests, and it somehow has immediately fired the imagination, and it's what they want to paint. exactly, yeah. the allure of what went on behind closed doors later stimulated a somewhat different vision of a female—only space. by the 19th century, western artists were happily producing work for an audience eager to see their fantasies exposed. until turkey's own orientalist osman hamdi had his say. he opted to depict women in hi...

Of this tradition where western artists have heard about the harem as this sort of forbidden realm, where turkish women would — well, this is an entertainment with guests, and it somehow has immediately fired the imagination, and it's what they want to paint. exactly, yeah. the allure of what went on behind closed doors later stimulated a somewhat different vision of a female—only space. by the 19th century, western artists were happily producing work for an audience eager to see their fantasies exposed. until turkey's own orientalist osman hamdi had his say. he opted to depict women in hi...

Fashion than the western painters he'd learnt from. and he's something of a local hero. they're not passive objects for the pleasure of a western male viewer's eye. they're women who are cultured, sophisticated. i think what we see on this