Showing posts with label realist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label realist. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Fat Cats
I went back to the Flickr creative commons (we are becoming fast friends) to find a famous painting. I found this one of actress Sarah Bernhardt from the late 1800s by French realist painter Jules Bastien-Lepage.
I really wanted to put the cat into her hands in the place of that gold thing she’s holding, but alas my photo editing skills are not there yet. I tried for a solid hour to manipulate it but the program eventually defeated me…I’m going to have to look up some tutorials on how to better do that. I still think she looks rather silly posing like that with a cat lolling about in her lap.
The Death of Sardanapalus (1827)
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Courbet “The Stone Breakers”
In Marx and Engles 1848 The Communist Manifesto, Marx claims:
In effect, Marx is likening the human workforce to the machines that they operate. After reading this, the image of Gustave Courbet’s realist painting “The Stone Breakers” which was done from 1849-1850 came to mind. Although Courbet was a socialist and looked up to Proudhon as a mentor (who Marx opposed), there is no denying that there is a similar message in The Stonebreakers to the above excerpt from The Communist Manifesto. While used to seeing painting relating to a particular revolution and what not, this has perhaps been the first instance where I have actually recognized a political theory versus a political event being exemplified in a painting.
The Stonebreakers depicts two men, one old, one young (commonly believed to be father and son) doing some of the lowliest work of the time: doing road work and breaking stones. Courbet and the Realist movement went against the norm and the wishes of the bourgeoisie and instead tried to represent le peuple; the people in their real element. Their clothes are ragged, their faces hidden, and their bodies stiff. The fact that their faces are hidden gives a sense of anonymity to the workers.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
$135,000,000 for Adele Bloch-Bauer I by Gustav Klimt (2006)
The record-breaking sale - which followed a court order by the Austrian government to return the painting to Bloch-Bauer's heir - was the culmination of a years-long dispute over the painting looted by Nazis during World War II.
Painted by the art nouveau master Gustav Klimt in 1907, the portrait was purchased in 2006 by cosmetics heir Ronald S. Lauder.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Stonehenge 1836
The huge structure near Salisbury (unrestored in Constable's time) was built about five thousand years ago : it was a temple of the sun and the moon. The designers were excellent astronomers and ingenious organisers and builders.
Comment on the skyscape, and on the composition of the painting. Compare it with the picture of Salisbury Cathedral.
John Constable
Parham Mill at Gillingham 1826
By 1826, water mills were giving way to the sort of 'mill' painted by de Loutherburg in Coalbrookdale at Night, to the factories with their steam-driven machinery.
Comment on the impression created of English rural life.
John Constable (1776-1837)
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Elegance in Orange
This beautiful still life express's her passion for good healthy living, and like the other's express her deepest thought's and expression's.
The bright orange colors used in this still life painting are passionate. Like “Fall Bounty” it is expressed through the Victorian age. This was one of the last of the fruit and basket series.
Fall Harvest
This still life painting was produced during a very difficult time. Her grandson Jimmy Stump was diagnosed with cancer. Starr is not a stranger to illness her self. She was five years old when diagnosed with polio. The progression of this disease required extensive surgery when she turned ten. Starr spent two years in a full body cast. The discipline that causes her to be a great artist worked to heal her body. She still cycles 5 miles each day, plus a rigorous aerobic workout, and a diet of natural and healthy foods..
When you truly study Starr's work, one finds how emotional and meaningful her art is to her. Jimmy's cancer was in remission after surgery, a frustrating time. Will it return? How can I prevent it from ever coming back? This painting speaks.
A beautiful teapot full of warm Herb teas, grains, and natural wheat bread, the staff of life. As you study this still life painting, and all of the healthy foods, Starr's frustration, tears, her supplications are placed on canvas. Offering up that her grandson will be healed.
Painted masterfully, with perfecting composition nothing less would be good enough for Jimmy. One must wonder if the effort, time and standard for beauty found in STARR'S art is not a reflection of the reverence she pays to the messages she paints.
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
John Sloan
(1871-1951) Leading member of the Ashcan School; captured the social realities of American urban life in the early 1900s
John Singer Sargent
(1856-1925) American Realist; best known for his fashionable portraits of leading figures in Europe and America
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