Love Locked Out (1890) – Anna M. Lea Anna Massey Lea (1844–1930), also known as Anna Lea Merritt, was born in Philadelphia, US, but lived in England… Read more “Eros in distress – (Lovely Paintings Revisited #4)”
Tag: Visual Arts
Photo-editing body and spirit – A gallery
This is a long and repetitive gallery; 16 pictures of the same subject ! Yes… But it has become a very decent serial work on a very… Read more “Photo-editing body and spirit – A gallery”
Lovely Paintings Revisited #3
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 the… Read more “Lovely Paintings Revisited #3”
Girls in balconies and other high places, by Pascal Campion
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”
Edward Hopper (XVI) – Pulling us inside the painting
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”
Lovely Paintings Revisited #2
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”
Franz von Stuck (II) – Views of death and horror from the Gospel
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”
Lovis Corinth – Three Works on Cruelty and Suffering – Samson, Cain, Christ
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”
The Many Temptations of St. Anthony the Great (VI)
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)”
The Many Temptations of St. Anthony the Great (IV)
Salvator Rosa – A forerruner of Romanticism Fifteen months ago I started a series of posts on this gripping and fruitful subject –one of the most depicted… Read more “The Many Temptations of St. Anthony the Great (IV)”
As Cute as They Get – Soft erotic drawings by Nitrile
Nitrile is the artistic name of a truly talented Russian (so I believe) illustrator, whose name I ignore as well. Despite the title of this post, he… Read more “As Cute as They Get – Soft erotic drawings by Nitrile”
Photorealist painting at its best, by Agnieszka Nienartowicz
Portraying women showing fragments of iconic artworks of the past tattooed on their bare backs, and doing it with enough skill to simulate slightly blurred digital photographs… Read more “Photorealist painting at its best, by Agnieszka Nienartowicz”
