In a post here, and also in my sister’s blog, from past January 18th: «A Pictorial Tribute – Delvaux’s “Ari”, and a sort of family portrait» , I… Read more “A Pictorial Tribute (II) – Delvaux’s “Ari” better explained and illustrated”
Category: Looking at Paintings
Slowly Painting the Essence of Time – Antonio López García (II)
–Fruits and flowers from the back garden– The truth of painting is that of dreams made real. All the artist aims to do trough the image he… Read more “Slowly Painting the Essence of Time – Antonio López García (II)”
A detailed ‘Soft Monster in Angelic Landscape’ (Monstre Tou en Paisatge Angèlic), by Salvador Dalí i Domènech
–A last confidence about impotence and psychological castration– Salvador Dalí’s father was a monster. Salvador Dalí i Cusí, a middle-class lawyer and notary in Figueres (a Catalan… Read more “A detailed ‘Soft Monster in Angelic Landscape’ (Monstre Tou en Paisatge Angèlic), by Salvador Dalí i Domènech”
Antonio López García – Humbly drawing great art out of a dirty bathroom
Spain is not my country, nor my parents’ and grandparents’ and any elders’ before them… but I have lived in it most of my life. My parents… Read more “Antonio López García – Humbly drawing great art out of a dirty bathroom”
Perro Semihundido – Half-buried Dog – A disquieting work by Francisco de Goya
Half-buried Dog (Perro Semi-hundido, in Spanish) is one of the names usually given to this painting by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes. It shows the head of… Read more “Perro Semihundido – Half-buried Dog – A disquieting work by Francisco de Goya”
Two Paintings with Spirit – Samples of the feminine way in art we all have desperately needed (but banned) for centuries
Two great painters of our time; two women; two beautiful samples of their work: – 1- The Mornig After II – by Alyssa Monks, 2014 (oil on… Read more “Two Paintings with Spirit – Samples of the feminine way in art we all have desperately needed (but banned) for centuries”
Several Magdalenes diversely similar
Selected paintings from the High Renaissance and Baroque featuring a (non-) penitent Mariam of Magdala – My younger sister, Ari, was not a Christian, but a shamanistic animist.… Read more “Several Magdalenes diversely similar”
‘Trilogy of Love’ – Tarot inspired lithographs by Salvador Dalí (or whoever)
Salvador Dalí made (or possibly only authorized) this suite of lithographs in 1976, directly inspired in three of the tarot cards, all from the major arcana: Temperance… Read more “‘Trilogy of Love’ – Tarot inspired lithographs by Salvador Dalí (or whoever)”
The Many Temptations of St. Anthony the Great (II)
Martin Schöngauer and the very young Michelangelo Buonarroti One of the best depictions of the ordeals that St. Anthony Abbot went through during his retirement in the… Read more “The Many Temptations of St. Anthony the Great (II)”
The Many Temptations of St. Anthony the Great (I)
Introduction – 20th century Temptations by Salvador Dalí and Max Ernst The plights of Saint Anthony the Great (or Anthony of Egypt or Anthony Abbot) during his… Read more “The Many Temptations of St. Anthony the Great (I)”
Views of the Fearsome Sea — The Great Oils of Winslow Homer — 1873 to 1909
– A Gallery with dates and some references —but no comments for the present, except for the very last painting. (If you like Homer, you may watch… Read more “Views of the Fearsome Sea — The Great Oils of Winslow Homer — 1873 to 1909”
Views of the Grey Sea – Marine Watercolours by Winslow Homer – 1880 to 1890
[English Version] [Versió Catalana aquí: Vistes de la Mar Grisa – Aquarel·les de Winslow Homer – 1880-1890] – The sea depicted by Winslow Homer, from the coast of New England,… Read more “Views of the Grey Sea – Marine Watercolours by Winslow Homer – 1880 to 1890”
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