Images Of Art

Sometimes I look at a work of art and like to imagine how deep into the work the artist went. The painting below was finished in less than an hour. It's a portrait by Thomas Gainsborough of his nephew. It's amazing to see such skill.

Still, to me, it doesn't compare with the painting below.


Laughing Fisherboy is a painting by Frans Hals. There is not a spot on the young man's face that doesn't indicate happiness. There is no way you can get a model to smile or laugh long enough to just copy that expression, even if they were actually pretty happy.

It's one thing to paint a person displaying a particular emotion, and totally different thing to paint the emotion.

 

Not my favorite Dracula adaptation.

It's very aesthetically pleasing though, one of those movies where one focuses on images and style.

I can appreciate that.

One forgets Keanu is in it, and that says something.

 

In The Metamorphoses Ovid tells the story of the nymph Daphne who, to escape the ardour of Apollo, was transformed into a laurel tree through her father’s will. The silver and coral statuette shows her as being petrified, caught at the very moment of her vegetal transformation. This dramatic and striking vision that boldly blends the reference to antique sculpture with exoticism of the marine world of antipodes was conceived of in the workshop of Wenzel Jamnitzer, the greatest goldsmith of Nuremberg (1507/08-1585).

 

I thought one of the ummm boats (bottom right) was a whale with open mouth.

 

The Irritating Gentleman

(Berthold Woltze, 1874)



Some things never change

 

lol

 

Barges !

 

If I take a picture of that tomorrow it will look exactly the same as it does in this painting only the pub on the left is now a hindu temple !

 

Blue Beard

(Ryu Eun Hye)

 

Chinese Girl

(Vladimir Tretchikoff)

 

I wonder what inspiration for this was.

 

Bat Against Full Moon

(Nomura Yoshikuni)

 

Movement I

(Kandinsky)