Chris's Reblog Blog

Jan 22

iheartmyart: Edward Kay, The Losers, 2008, oil on canvas on panel, 110 x 140 cms

iheartmyart:

Edward Kay, The Losers, 2008, oil on canvas on panel, 110 x 140 cms

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Jan 21

masterpiecedaily: Paul Raud Seminude 1893

masterpiecedaily:

Paul Raud

Seminude

1893

Jan 08

Winston Chmielinski

Winston Chmielinski

(Source: angrywhistler, via eneless)

artemisdreaming: Self-portrait with Cloak, Paris, late,  1901 Pablo Picasso . The Blue Period (1901-1904) has long been considered Picasso’s first true evolution as an artist in creating a manner of his own. Beginning with several paintings that memorialized the recent suicide of his friend Casagemas, the artist’s themes grew somber and dark, and he implemented a palette consisting almost exclusively of shades of blue. The monochromatic use of blue was fairly standard in symbolist painting in Western Europe, often related to representations of melancholy or hopelessness. The figures in his works were often depicted as Bohemian-type outcasts, which happened to be the life that Picasso was leading himself, poor and far away from his family. Some examples of his subjects included beggars, prostitutes, the disabled, circus performers as well as some of his penniless friends. The Blue Period dramatizes the artist as an outcast from society and the theme of this era in Picasso’s career owes much to the eighteen-nineties when the idea of the artist as l’homme maudit, happy and dissociated from ordinary life but superior to it, was created in Western Europe. via: artchive . Artemis:  When you see the blue period paintings separately you get a sense of what he was feeling but to see them as a group really gives a glimpse into the depth of his depression. 

artemisdreaming:

Self-portrait with Cloak, Paris, late,  1901

Pablo Picasso

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The Blue Period (1901-1904) has long been considered Picasso’s first true evolution as an artist in creating a manner of his own. Beginning with several paintings that memorialized the recent suicide of his friend Casagemas, the artist’s themes grew somber and dark, and he implemented a palette consisting almost exclusively of shades of blue. The monochromatic use of blue was fairly standard in symbolist painting in Western Europe, often related to representations of melancholy or hopelessness. The figures in his works were often depicted as Bohemian-type outcasts, which happened to be the life that Picasso was leading himself, poor and far away from his family. Some examples of his subjects included beggars, prostitutes, the disabled, circus performers as well as some of his penniless friends. The Blue Period dramatizes the artist as an outcast from society and the theme of this era in Picasso’s career owes much to the eighteen-nineties when the idea of the artist as l’homme maudit, happy and dissociated from ordinary life but superior to it, was created in Western Europe. via: artchive

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Artemis:  When you see the blue period paintings separately you get a sense of what he was feeling but to see them as a group really gives a glimpse into the depth of his depression. 

Jan 06

angrywhistler: Nicolas de Largillière (1656-1746)

angrywhistler:

Nicolas de Largillière (1656-1746)

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Dec 30

themainloop: Johann Baptist Reiter

themainloop:

Johann Baptist Reiter

Dec 21

cavetocanvas: James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Milly Finch, c. 1884

cavetocanvas:

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Milly Finch, c. 1884

artemisdreaming: Above: Panel - La légende De Saint-Hubert, Maurice Denis, 1897, Sept panneaux, huile sur toile © ADAGP, Paris 2010 - large image: HERE . In 1895 scholar and politician Baron Denys Cochin commissioned Maurice Denis to paint a mural for his office.  The theme: the legend of St. Hubert, in which the cross of Christ has appeared between the antlers of a stag during a hunt.This allows symbolist and mystic Maurice Denis in 1897 to make his first major mural. The work is a summary and means of expression for the Nabi period: harmony of form and color, motion,  visual and decorative sensations …The setting consists of seven panels that follow one another on three walls, following the course of hunting and along a path Manichean. Four themes interweave them: the hunt, the conversion of St. Hubert and the evidence of the sacred and the misfortune of hunters driven by their passions, and finally the fate of the family Cochin, a symbol of the human family united in peace and prayer. (musee-mauricedenis.fr) . Large image:  HERE . Large image: HERE . Large image: HERE . Large image: HERE . Large image: HERE . Large image: HERE

artemisdreaming:

Above: Panel - La légende De Saint-Hubert, Maurice Denis, 1897, Sept panneaux, huile sur toile © ADAGP, Paris 2010 - large image: HERE

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In 1895 scholar and politician Baron Denys Cochin commissioned Maurice Denis to paint a mural for his office.  The theme: the legend of St. Hubert, in which the cross of Christ has appeared between the antlers of a stag during a hunt.

This allows symbolist and mystic Maurice Denis in 1897 to make his first major mural. The work is a summary and means of expression for the Nabi period: harmony of form and color, motion,  visual and decorative sensations …

The setting consists of seven panels that follow one another on three walls, following the course of hunting and along a path Manichean. Four themes interweave them: the hunt, the conversion of St. Hubert and the evidence of the sacred and the misfortune of hunters driven by their passions, and finally the fate of the family Cochin, a symbol of the human family united in peace and prayer. (musee-mauricedenis.fr)

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Dec 19

Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline

Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline

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