The Sacred Feminine: Da Vinci

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Da Vinci

This is a detail of an angel from The Virgin of the Rocks, which I altered digitally so that it made more sense as a composition in itself.

2 comments:

Susi B said...: Beautiful.

Da Vinci's women are extraordinary, almost Divine.; November 30, 2010 at 1:21 AM
jeronimus said...: Hi Susi. His work is amazing, especially when you see it alongside other paintings from the same period, which are stiff and expressionless in comparison.; December 2, 2010 at 3:33 AM

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A collection of some of the most beautiful depictions of the feminine in Western art throughout the ages, with a particular emphasis on the sacred feminine. Most of the works are paintings, and most in oil.

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Figurative art describes artwork - particularly paintings and sculptures - which are clearly derived from real object sources, and are therefore by definition representational. The term 'figurative art' is often taken to mean art which represents the human figure, or even an animal figure, and, though this is often the case, it is not necessarily so. Since the arrival of abstract art the term figurative has been used to refer to any form of modern art that retains strong references to the real world. This blog is about figurative art in the sense of the human figure, with particular emphasis on idealised representations of the feminine, or the feminine as sacred.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Da Vinci

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