Who Loves Art
 

I read this forum 2 or 3 times a day for all the valuable information, but was thinking (always dangerous), that it might be nice to have a thread that is pleasing to the senses.

We could post some of our favourite images. I love Pre-Raphaelite art for instance, and will post this genre.

We could also post some Youtube music.

A positive way to promote healing and relaxation. I started this on my Breast Cancer Forum and everyone really loves it.

Please join me.

I'll start........enjoy!

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This will be a sticky thread so we won't have to go searching for it.

William Adolph Bougeureau
 

Waterhouse - Ophelia
 

Thanks for this uplifting thread! I've always love the Pre-Raphaelites; the paintings are always infused with such light. Here's one of my favorite painters- not to be confused with Monet ;)

Bar at Folies-Bergeres

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The Crystal Ball - John William Waterhouse


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Art detective work has uncovered the hidden secret of a £350,000 painting after it was "doctored" in the early 1950s. "The Crystal Ball" by John William Waterhouse RA (1849-1917) shows a young model in a red dress gazing into the ball, apparently weaving a spell with the aid of a book and a skull.

John W. Waterhouse. Ophelia, 1910

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This is the last of three paintings on Ophelia; it was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1910. John Christian remarks that the painting is stylistically interesting in that "the picture shows how Waterhouse combined Pre-Raphaelite subject matter with a bold impressionistic technique. Most English artists who adopted this method, notably the so-called Newlyn School, rejected the literary themes of the Pre-Raphaelites to paint scenes from modern life. Waterhouse, who knew many of the Newlyn artists, was unusual in attempting to bridge the gulf between the Pre-Raphaelite and realist traditions that divided British art from the 1880's on" (191).

Striking too is how Waterhouse departs from the tradition elaborated over the decades; the girlish Ophelia dressed in a simple gown of virginal white is replaced with a voluptuous, mature young woman in a tailored blue and crimson gown with elegant gold embroidery. Two children in contemporary clothing look undiscerningly from the bridge, unaware that Ophelia presses on towards her fate.

I love art!
 

I have always loved art. There is something therapeutic about looking at art and engaging in art. I have been working with glass art for the past 3 yrs. It has been the most exciting venture I have had. Here is my latest sculpture. It is about 2 inches tall. It is the first in a series of my funky flower sculptures.


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Libra,
Looks beautiful! How long does it take to create some thing like that?
I took a jewelery making class a few years ago, spent at least 5hr to make a bangle! It was so nice to create something that looks beautiful.

Great thread, thanks for starting BlueD!' I love those pictures you posted,

girija

Waterhouse

Windflowers, 1903

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A couple versions of "The Lady of Shalott".

John Sidney Meteyard - 1913

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John William Waterhouse, 1894

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oops.....another one
 

The Lady of Shalott - I'm half sick of shadows. - 1916

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What is wrong with Monet?
 

Ephemeral
 

Paint should not be applied thick, it should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.
- James McNeill Whistler

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Arthur Hughes

April Love - 1855

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When Hughes exhibited April Love at the 1856 Royal Academy, he included the following quotation from Tennyson's "The Miller's Daughter":

Love is hurt with jar and fret,
Love is made a vague regret,
Eyes with idle tears are set,
Idle habit links us yet;
What is Love? For we forget.
Ah no, no.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Nymphs and Satyr - 1873

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Born: 1825 - Died: 1905.
As a young man, Bouguereau put himself through the Ecole des Beaux-Arts by keeping books for a wine merchant and colouring labels for a local grocer. In his spare time, he created drawings from memory. Bouguereau produced more than seven hundred finished works and achieved a remarkable level of public acclaim.

Does anyone see something that is obvious but not so obvious, if you don't really look, in the painting above?

These paintings are from my favorite period in history. Even though I play a lot of Baroque music on my harpsichord and clavichord, the Romantic period is up there on my passionate list. The art and music from this period gives me goose-pimples.

A few weekends ago I had quite an experience that I'll have to post about in detail. I did some piano-sitting at the Frederick Collection in Ashburnham, MA www.fredereickcollection.org

Their casework is just as beautiful as the music that is played on them.

John

I'm glad you like them. I just love the rich colours and peaceful looks.

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema..(1836-1912), is another one of my favourites.

Ask Me No More

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Laurel (I especially like the plant in the piece. Have a few oleanders that I keep outside during the summer months only.)

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Few artists enjoyed the success that the Dutch-born painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema achieved in the United Kingdom with his studies of semi-nudes, which were set against a background of daily life in ancient Rome, Greece and Egypt. Born in Dronryp, his art training began at the Antwerp Academy, and was completed with Baron Leys, an historical painter whose careful reconstructions of life in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries made him the ideal teacher for a painter like Alma-Tadema, whose choice of subject-matter had always been similar. But it was left to Ernst Gambert, the Belgian international art dealer to realise that in Alma-Tadema he had found himself a first-class artist. After seeing his work, Gambert immediately commissioned forty-four paintings which were eventually shown in England, where they caused an instant sensation.

Sorry the previous might have been a wild transmission since my new baby kitten attacked my labtop unexpectedly....BUT yes art love it and these examples are great will you except any art like photos or hand work? pokie:hug:

Of course!

further back in time and right now and on and on
 

I hope this works.

http://faculty.smu.edu/tmayo/icarus.htm

http://poetrypages.lemon8.nl/life/mu...ebeauxarts.htm

About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters; how well, they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.
In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.

Copyright © 1976 by Edward Mendelson, William Meredith and Monroe K. Spears,
Executors of the Estate of W. H. Auden.


Sorry i can't figure out how to paste the picture here, please look it up, it is quite wonderful.

Our Lady of the Fruits of the Earth
 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Day Dream - 1880

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The true revolutionaries
 

In a world where there is much ugliness, it is the creators of Beauty who are the true revolutionaries.

Edward Robert Hughes

Night with her Train of Stars and her Great Gift of Sleep - 1912

BTW - It works. hehehehehehe (have it right over my bed)

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Frederic Lord Leighton

The Painter's Honeymoon - circa 1864

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Here's another one by Frederic Lord Leighton.

Flaming June - 1895

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This painting was put up for auction in the 1960s and failed to meet its reserve price of $140. It was then purchased by the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico where it has remained ever since.

It had been thought for many years that Dorothy Dene was the model for Flaming June. However, recent research by Martin Postle, published in Apollo magazine some years ago, suggests that the model for this painting was a woman named Mary Lloyd. She also posed for Sir Frank Dicksee's Magic Crystal, William Blake Richmond's mosaic angels in St Paul's Cathedral and Sir John Millais' A Disciple (Tate Britain, 1895). Mary Lloyd also sat for Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Ford Madox Brown, John William Waterhouse and William Holman Hunt.

The Mysterious Anuket sings
 

The Mysterious Anuket has PD and we were promoting dance as a therapy but she cannot dance. So it was very important to us that she sing. She recorded two songs for us on her home computer - all the vocals and vocal harmonies and instruments are her, all self-recorded, alone.
This became very important to some of us, that she sing. I don't know how to direct you to You Tube, so you have to go to the link below and then scroll way, way down almost to the very end and click on the Anyone song and then the Constant Sorrow song.
Please listen to the songs - and all the images are my farm. Getting these songs was one of those magic /religious things that often happen with PD.
I want people to hear this because for some of us the songs tied together a whole year of Parkinson's warfare, and there was a lot of trouble and anguish, but in the end the art came back to rescue us from depression and despair. Art does that, and what you have here is a live recording by someone with PD, sent to others with PD. Scroll way down to the 2 photos at the end.
http://parkinsonsdance.blogspot.com/...r-21_3946.html

http://parkinsonsdance.blogspot.com/...r-21_3946.html

I love art
 

Here is a portrait I did of my youngest daughter. It was done with colored pencil.
I posted this earlier but for some reason it didn't show up. So I apologize if it is duplicated.

By the way, I just started to read previous post by Bob Dawson. I apologize for totally ignoring it in my response. I don't have the patience any more to sit down and read something that lengthy and perhaps sad and unsettling. I will read it soon. It sounds like something I should read. I did listen to the haunting music at the end. It was beautiful.

Yes, listen to the songs !!
 

By the way, I just started to read previous post by Bob Dawson. I apologize for totally ignoring it in my response. I don't have the patience any more to sit down and read something that lengthy and perhaps sad and unsettling. I will read it soon. It sounds like something I should read. I did listen to the haunting music at the end. It was beautiful.[/QUOTE]

It is very long and parts are harsh. It's not for everybody
- but the music is! I am so pleased with those 2 songs - that I wanted to ask people to listen to them even if they don't want to plow through all that text. So you did the right thing - that's what I want - is for people to click on those 2 songs - the images are all of my farm - and the music by Anuket came about by magic. - Bob D

Jules Olitski and the View of Delft
 

It sounds like something I should read. I did listen to the haunting music at the end. It was beautiful.[/QUOTE]

Ah yes, I want people to hear those songs. But as you are doing visual art, you might like Chapter 9 - Jules Olitski and the View of Delft. Jules was a painter. http://parkinsonsdance.blogspot.com/...chapter-9.html

Waterhouse

Gather ye Rosebuds While Ye May - 1909

Interesting little tidbit about this one.



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William Bouguereau

Work Interrupted -1891

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