Three long years have passed since Ari F started this bog with a hopeful project in her mind. She had time to publish only a few introductory pages and six posts from 2015/11/06 until 2016/01/07, but left many drafts more or less complete –which I edited, sometimes finished, and published for her in her name. Many of […]
John Singer Sargent – Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose – 1885-86 Every day that British weather permitted, from September to early November of 1885, and again during all… Read more “Lovely Paintings Revisited #3 – Sargent”
This is a personal, very short selection of works by Franco-American illustrator Pascal Campion. He, besides being one of the great, nowadays, is extremely prolific, and as… Read more “Girls in balconies and other high places, by Pascal Campion”
I am following as well as I can the artwork by this Chinese girl of great talent (Yuumei (Wenqing Yan)); and I’m lost for words to express… Read more “Again in the private Wonderland of Wenqing Yan”
Sometimes –oftentimes, when you grow older– memories gain a new meaning. Recalled with a changed mind, they are deeply touching and revealing. Pictures help a lot with… Read more “Looking back in Awe”
Compartment C, Car 293 (1938) A train compartment, a lone woman, reading by a window, the sight of a bridge, a mixture of artificial light with that… Read more “Edward Hopper (XVI) – Pulling us inside the painting”
John Maler Collier – Lady Godiva – 1898 Once more I have chosen an academic neoclassical panting for this incipient series. Not that I prefer this style… Read more “Lovely Paintings Revisited #2 – Collier”
I have been telling, several times, I would post a few of my own drawings some day. Friends of mine have encouraged me to do it, and… Read more “My personal graphic work – An introduction and an old sample”
As a follow-up of my scanty selection of works by the German (Bavarian) painter Franz von Stuck (1863 – 1928) ((Find them HERE)), I have chosen a… Read more “Franz von Stuck (II) – Views of death and horror from the Gospel”
Pierre Auguste Cot – Printemps (Springtime) – 1873 . [Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA – on loan from Steven and Alexandra Cohen’s coll.] I deeply… Read more “Lovely Paintings Revisited #1 – Cot”
In a recent post with oils by Lovis Corinth: “The Many Temptations of St. Anthony the Great (VI)”, I told he deeply changed his painting style after… Read more “Lovis Corinth – Three Works on Cruelty and Suffering – Samson, Cain, Christ”
Lovis Corinth Lovis Corinth is the artistic name of German painter Franz Heinrich Louis Corinth (1858, Tapiau, Prussia – 1925, Zanvoort, The Netherlands). He studied painting in… Read more “The Many Temptations of St. Anthony the Great (VI)”
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