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)”
Tag: Visual Arts
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”
Edward Hopper (XIII) – “Portrait of Orleans” from a car about to crash
Hopper’s portraits of buildings, villages, landscapes…, faithful as they may be, are also inner portraits. They quite deliberately represent the painter’s mood and, often times, tell some… Read more “Edward Hopper (XIII) – “Portrait of Orleans” from a car about to crash”
Edward Hopper (XII) – A Dawn and two Dusks
After a rather long interval, I come back to my ongoing series of posts about Edward Hopper. Despite having already advanced drafts for longer posts, I feel… Read more “Edward Hopper (XII) – A Dawn and two Dusks”
A truly sexy Samson by Carl Bloch
As a somewhat casual, unplanned annex to my last post I feel like showing (and telling a bit about) this other oil by Danish painter Carl Heinrich… Read more “A truly sexy Samson by Carl Bloch”
The previous ‘Morning After’, by Alyssa Monks
[This post on contemporary American painting is a direct follow-up of another one on my other blog: A Painting with Soul: ‘Morning After II’ by Alyssa Monks.] The… Read more “The previous ‘Morning After’, by Alyssa Monks”
Edward Hopper (XI) – The Sailing Boats – oils and watercolours
Edward Hopper’s lifelong enthusiasm for the sea developed when he was a boy in Nyack, NY, then a prosperous Hudson River port with an active shipyard. Years… Read more “Edward Hopper (XI) – The Sailing Boats – oils and watercolours”
Archangels, still… And some imposing Seraphim from Late Romanesque
“Ecce ego mitto angelum meum ante faciem tuam” (Marcus, 1: 2) [Behold, I send my messenger before thy face] There are some splendid representations of angels from different… Read more “Archangels, still… And some imposing Seraphim from Late Romanesque”
L’oreneta immòbil (The motionless swallow) – A smallish great work by S. Dalí
Widely, and perhaps best, known in French as L’Hirondelle immobile, this small and delicate oil seems to be a previous partial study for a bigger painting, undeservedly much… Read more “L’oreneta immòbil (The motionless swallow) – A smallish great work by S. Dalí”
Still Life Photography – Two Masterworks
. Photography like hyperrealist painting – “Photounrealism”? It is quite frequent to take some hyperrealist and photorealist paintings for actual photographs, but not so frequent –in fact, very odd–… Read more “Still Life Photography – Two Masterworks”
‘Swept Away’ and other recent watercolours by Inslee Fariss
– “Swept away”, by Inslee Fariss (2017) [look below], makes me think a lot of my sister, who was also daring and silly enough to wear a short… Read more “‘Swept Away’ and other recent watercolours by Inslee Fariss”
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