Do you like any of these paintings?
Do you know anything about the painters who created them?Have you seen any of them before?
If you had a lot of money, which one would you buy?
Where would you hang it?
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If I had a lot of money I´d buy the last one. It makes me feel calm and relaxed.
ReplyDeleteThere's a film about the painter. It's called Maudie. I think you'd enjoy it.
DeleteAnd another film about the third. The title is Big Eyes. I loved it.
DeleteThe first one is called "Flaming June" it is a Pre-Raphaelites' painting by Sir Frederic Leighton. Produced in 1895 it's considered to be Leighton's magnus opus. The Pre-Raphaelites were a secret society of young artists (and one writer), founded in London in 1848. They were opposed to the Royal Academy's promotion of the ideal as exemplified in the work of Raphael.
ReplyDeleteRegarding the second painting,it was done by Margaret Keane, an American artist known for her paintings of subjects with big eyes. Nabucodonosor, the third painting, was done by an English poet, painter, and printmarker, William Blake, considered as a seminal figure in the history of poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. As far as the last one is concerned, it was painted by Maud Lewis, a Naïve artist. Naïve art is usually defined as visual art created by a person who lacks the formal education and training that a profesional artist usually has in terms of anatomy, art history, technique or perspective.. It's also called as 'primitivism'.
If I had to choose one, I'd said the one, because its smooth stroke and the woman's natural iconic beauty.
Sorry for my extensive explanation. I couldn't avoid it due to my passion for art.
Thanks for the very interesting explanation. When you say you'd choose the one, you mean the first? I like all except for Blake's.
ReplyDeleteSome corrections:
Pre-Raphaelite painting
I would say painted or created instead of done, but it's not very important.
When you speak of a writer in the movement you mention, are you talking about Dante Gabriel Rossetti's sister, Christina? Or maybe DG himself? I guess not, but I never knew there was a Pre-Raphaelite writer, or maybe I've forgotten.
Yes, I'm talking about Dante Gabriel Rossetti who was also a painter. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais and one of his first early painting 'Ecce Ancilla Domini' reveals some of the Pre-Raphaelite's painting style. There isn't a Pre-Raphaelite's literature itself.
ReplyDeleteI love 'Flaming June', on the top. Had I had enough money I would get it. I find something so pleasant in it: The colour. I don't know why but the colour of the figure makes me feel well; and it has a cloak of mistery as well, as a dream.
ReplyDeleteIt could seem a paradox, but I find a great movement in it. The woman an the portrait.
The figure is resting but if you take a point in the painting, you can go over it and travel. The amount of corners in the painting says that it is not plain. You can begin your travel from the eye thay 'sees' the hand, and track on the arm, the hip, the leg, the feet hidden by the tempest of cloth and from here, as an explosion, jump to the plant at the right top and travel out of the canvas to the sea.
It's a shame the contrast is not good enough in this image but it is easy to find another one where the plant and the background are clearer and it is possible to taste the ambient in plenitude.
That's impressive, JL. As usual. I have this painting in by bedroom and it also makes me happy. It's not the original, of course.
DeleteWow, astonishing explanation, it could perfectly be an art historian's overview of the painting.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for these instructive comments. I would also like to give my opinion, but from a sensitive point of view. I understand very little about art or practically nothing. Starting from that point, it is true that any form of art produces me a lot of feelings and when I have seen these 4 magnificent paintings they have immediately reminded me of stages of life.
DeleteMargaret Keane's would be childhood, one contemplates the world with big eyes, is located in the foreground of life and behind the cat and the sea, it would be friendship and the world to discover.
The first would be youth before emancipation, representing beauty, fullness and calm, still ignoring the impositions and becomings of the next stage.
The third would be adult life, where one opens his eyes and mind and discovers the wheel of life, the misfortunes, the injustices, the goodbyes, the routine and the continuous struggle of the time in which you live.
And the last one would be old age where calm, simplicity, a return to origins, to natural and full life would return valuing what really matters. And that's my interpretation. I would keep the 4 paintings and give each one a special place in my house.
Guess… which painting represents my current stage of life...
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Julia, I also perceive art like you: through emotions and feelings, because I know nothing about art and because of my personality.I like your explanation a lot, it's incredibly creative. I wouldn't have been able to explain it in such a rational way.
DeletePersonally,I would have all of them at home except for the Blake one. Too dark for me.
Carlos, I totally agree with what you say about JL's explanation, as I told him before.
DeleteThanks guys for all your interesting, thought-provoking answers.
ReplyDeleteI like the picture of sleepy woman because I admire the detail of the painting. Also the one of a landscape, very colourful. I don´t know who are the painters of these.
ReplyDeleteThe first one was painted by Lord Leighton and the last one by Maude Lewis, a Canadian folk artist.
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