tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44973149448691155372024-03-05T02:50:16.213-08:00The Sacred FeminineImages of the Women in Western Oil PaintingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger272125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497314944869115537.post-90365874280826997692020-11-30T17:33:00.001-08:002020-11-30T17:33:21.935-08:00Evelyn De Morgan<p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5O6_V1jyIY68Xs4TOYydut6i96Zf-iGR8uxkJdDka2oMRMGq9sBUX-DQt0ttw4T1ELxlHZ9uBW3S3MARPtazZi_lTlobNRZsuWL7HOTuYIRfa9_RFpLsv-7Pb5h2-IDbQw8RHlOIz03M/s1768/Evelyn+De+Morgan%252C+The+Light+Shineth.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1768" data-original-width="1220" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5O6_V1jyIY68Xs4TOYydut6i96Zf-iGR8uxkJdDka2oMRMGq9sBUX-DQt0ttw4T1ELxlHZ9uBW3S3MARPtazZi_lTlobNRZsuWL7HOTuYIRfa9_RFpLsv-7Pb5h2-IDbQw8RHlOIz03M/w442-h640/Evelyn+De+Morgan%252C+The+Light+Shineth.jpeg" width="442" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Evelyn De Morgan, The Light Shineth in the Darkness</td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497314944869115537.post-48772043190614025382018-12-21T15:05:00.000-08:002018-12-21T15:05:11.945-08:00Burne Jones<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sir Edwaed Coley Burne-Jones, 1833-98 Earth Mother, 1882 Encaustic on panelUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497314944869115537.post-36684716454560355472014-07-16T06:10:00.000-07:002014-07-16T06:10:16.284-07:00Suhair Sibai<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Birn in Syria and based in Los Angeles, Suhair Sibai explores notions of self and identity through the feminine form and emotionally charged colours.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497314944869115537.post-68179539771025961632014-03-23T03:00:00.000-07:002014-03-23T03:00:03.572-07:00Pisarro<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497314944869115537.post-8352699080650288422014-01-01T20:51:00.000-08:002014-01-01T20:51:53.307-08:00Di-Li Feng<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Di Li Feng, born 1958, is a Chinese contemporary artist working in the Western oil painting tradition.</div>
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In his work, he aims to combine the reality of a concrete object with the atmosphere created by an abstract texture and background. He has a particular admiration for the glories of China’s imperial past, which forms the basis for many of his paintings, and he declares that he is "enchanted by its honour or disgrace, its tragedies, sadness, sentimentality and great joys".</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497314944869115537.post-1356719229778939312013-12-14T01:21:00.000-08:002013-12-14T01:28:22.735-08:00Guido Reni<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>The Virgin Sewing (detail)</i></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497314944869115537.post-81774397559215021682013-10-20T23:26:00.000-07:002013-10-20T23:26:05.402-07:00Sir James Jebusa Shannon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Portrait of the Duchess of Rutland</i></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497314944869115537.post-73114007621298349182013-09-12T08:43:00.000-07:002013-09-12T08:43:57.297-07:00The Isleworth Mona Lisa<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The <i>Isleworth Mona Lisa</i> is believed by some to be an earlier version of the famous work by Leonardo hanging in the Louvre. It bears a striking resemblance to the subject of the Mona Lisa, and appears to be a portrait of the same lady at a younger age.<br />
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It's authenticity is disputed, but recent carbon dating of the canvas puts it in the right period. The face and hands look very much like the work of Leonardo, but the neck and background are somewhat cruder, suggesting that another artist, or artists, may have finished a piece left unfinished by the master.<br />
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Roughly a century ago, An English art collector, discovered the portrait in a nobleman's house in Somerset, England. He bought the painting and kept it at his studio in Isleworth, London; hence the name. After languishing in a bank vault for half a century, the painting was finally revealed to the public a year ago.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Returning from the Fields</i> (detail)</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497314944869115537.post-61194785114342019662013-06-26T06:00:00.000-07:002013-06-26T06:28:05.314-07:00Gaston La Touche<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>A Maiden in Contemplation</i>, 1898</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497314944869115537.post-42568541355228143752013-04-24T08:59:00.002-07:002013-04-24T08:59:35.904-07:00Peter Nicolai Arbo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Arbo was a Norwegian painter known for his images of figures from Scandinavian mythology,Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497314944869115537.post-7399819025594879182013-04-23T04:50:00.002-07:002013-04-23T04:50:43.422-07:00Antonin Hudeček<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Evening Silence</i>, 1900</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497314944869115537.post-14579276679575177242013-04-18T06:23:00.001-07:002013-04-18T06:26:46.238-07:00Mary Cassatt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Woman Standing Holding a Fan</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Distemper with metallic paint on canvas, Amon Carter Museum</span><br />
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<i>Devaki</i>, Mother of Sri Krishna.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497314944869115537.post-19233913950570234882013-02-08T08:49:00.003-08:002013-02-08T08:49:44.500-08:00Ramón Casas i Carbó<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Retrato de las señoritas N.N</i>. (1890) 220 x 160 cm.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497314944869115537.post-8023649218893679292013-01-23T20:03:00.001-08:002013-01-23T20:03:37.456-08:00Amrita Sher-Gil<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Three Girls, </i>1935</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497314944869115537.post-86958161917323965082012-12-18T23:50:00.000-08:002012-12-18T23:50:03.486-08:00The Immaculate Conception<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>The Immaculate Conception</i>, Cuzco School.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497314944869115537.post-13033092975359373002012-11-12T06:05:00.001-08:002012-11-20T07:34:15.708-08:00Andrey Remnev<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"The process of creation for me is first of all a dialogue with myself. Search of a perfect artistic shape, its technical realisation is in fact a process of self-knowledge and self-development."<br />
-Andrey RemnevUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497314944869115537.post-24747677255302572032012-10-17T00:01:00.000-07:002012-10-17T00:32:16.832-07:00Jan Mijtens<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Portrait of a girl picking grapes</i>, 50 x 40.5 cm</span><br />
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Jan Mijtens (Johannes Mytens) was a painter of the Dutch Golden Age based in the Hague. He often depicted his portrait subjects in landscapes.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497314944869115537.post-30994317740678567042012-09-27T04:27:00.002-07:002012-09-27T04:28:42.960-07:00Vermeer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Diana and Her Companions</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497314944869115537.post-47309586379563989632012-09-02T04:15:00.002-07:002012-09-02T04:44:39.735-07:00Frederick Arthur Bridgman<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Jia Lu (1954-) was born in China into a family of artists. She is now based in the US.<br />
She feels strongly that beauty is the final measure of all things, and that true beauty is born of self-knowledge.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Mother Earth</i>, Jenness Cortez Perlmutter</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497314944869115537.post-89702705153703552532012-07-16T06:01:00.000-07:002012-07-16T06:02:23.713-07:00Sleep<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Alfonso Savini</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">George William Joy, <i>An Eastern Girl</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Pietro Antonio Rotari, <i>Sleeping Girl</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Frederic Leighton, <i>Cymon & Iphigenia,</i></span><br />
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Flaming June</span></i><br />
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19th century painters have often been criticised for depicting women as prone, passive objects. (the Rotari looks like it's from the 18th century). There is some truth to this charge, but the energetic reds and oranges in these works provide an antidote to the subject matter.</div>
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In Hinduism, the Goddess is invoked in many different aspects, one of which is Shri Nidra (Sleep). Sleep is often devalued in the West, despite the fact that it is essential for life and creativity.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0