The Pre-Raphaelite Painters ....

One of the finest ... Look at the way he catches the wind in her clothing!

 

I've never listened to Joshua Tree.

 

Like me but I'm mad and sensitive

 

yes and the way he achieved the transparency of the shawl/wrap... just amazing work, every fold in the fabric, you can imagine the wind. Feel it. . Great.

 

I've been mad.

 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Another wonderful artist of the same period. Read up on him ... he was a Pre-Raphaelite hippy!

 

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This is his lover Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall whom he shared with William Morris .... She later commited suicide and thats also a bizarre story

 

I am not sure why Joshua tree was mentioned in this thread. Lol.

 

Because someone thinks of the Edge's guitar work being like one of Van Gogh's paintings.

 

Way off topic but who cares? Not me!

 

Gustav klimt

 

lol well neither do I but I was lost for a moment. Thanks for setting me straight, the both of you

 

I have painted my own version of this.
Shall I take a photo?
Do you know the poem that inspired this painting?

 

S

See above Candy .... "the ending of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's 1832 poem of the same name."

Do let us see your version please ...

 

I will ask my hubby to take a photo on his camera. As my painting is very large.
I have replaced the face with mine - Cos I am mad too. lol

 

Good ...
A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him saying, ‘You are mad, you are not like us’.

— St Antony of Egypt

 

Bringing this back to the top. This Waterhouse is really beautiful.


The Lady of Shalott, by John William Waterhouse

This painting is an illustration of Tennyson’s ‘The Lady of Shalott’
And down the river’s dim expanse
Like some bold seer in a trance,
Seeing all his own mischance –
With glassy countenance
Did she look to Camelot.
And at the closing of the day
She loosed the chain, and down she lay;
The broad stream bore her far away,
The Lady of Shalott.