The Sacred Feminine

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Peter Nicolai Arbo

Nott riding Hrimfaxi.
Arbo was a Norwegian painter known for his images of figures from Scandinavian mythology,

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Mary Cassatt

Woman Standing Holding a Fan
Distemper with metallic paint on canvas, Amon Carter Museum

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Saturday, March 16, 2013

Friday, February 8, 2013

Ramón Casas i Carbó

Retrato de las señoritas N.N. (1890) 220 x 160 cm.

About This Blog

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.

Included are some works by non-Western artists working in the Western tradition of oil technique.

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Comments and suggestions always welcome.

If you are the owner of any of the images and would like them removed please advise in a comment to the post.

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.

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Gaston La Touche

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Peter Nicolai Arbo

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Antonin Hudeček

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Mary Cassatt

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Frans Hals

Saturday, March 16, 2013

Marianne Stokes

Friday, February 8, 2013

Ramón Casas i Carbó

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