Paintings you like

[Nungali]

 

The Queen of Sheba visits King Solomon

Edited May 30, 2020 by Nungali

[dawei]

in a word, chiaroscuro.

 

Defined as the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition.

 

Caravaggio's Judith beheading Holofernes

 

 

compare to what is said to possibly be his second edition

 

 

and then by Gentileschi

 

[doc benway]

A few from my last visit to the Dali in St Pete, Florida:

 

 

 

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[SirPalomides]

11 hours ago, dawei said:

in a word, chiaroscuro.

 

Defined as the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition.

 

Caravaggio's Judith beheading Holofernes

 

 

compare to what is said to possibly be his second edition

 

 

and then by Gentileschi

 

I think I like Gentileschi’s best because she actually looks like she’s doing the tough work of sawing a man’s head off, whereas Caravaggio’s Judith is trying not to stain her dress.

[SirPalomides]

The Chimera, by Gustave Moreau

 

 

 

Edited May 31, 2020 by SirPalomides

[Taomeow]

Qi Baishi, "Aliens," sometime before 1957 

 

[Nungali]

11 hours ago, SirPalomides said:

I think I like Gentileschi’s best because she actually looks like she’s doing the tough work of sawing a man’s head off, whereas Caravaggio’s Judith is trying not to stain her dress.

 

Ahhhh ...  together we have the essence of womanhood ;

 

saw your head off ....  but be careful of not staining her dress

 

 

 

[Taomeow]

Alexander Krivonos, 2016

 

Edited June 6, 2020 by Taomeow

[moment]

Glow of Hope – S L Haldankar

 

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[RobB]

Recently got introduced to the work of John Bauer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bauer_(illustrator)

[moment]

View of Toledo-- El Greco

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Battle of Issus-- Albrech Altdorfer

[mark]

Very nice, found this one

 

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[SirPalomides]

 

One of Sidney Sime's illustrations for Lord Dunsany

[Taomeow]

18 hours ago, moment said:

View of Toledo-- El Greco

 

El Greco is special in my book because his paintings are among the few phenomena in the world of art that kick-start synesthesia in me -- I can "hear" them.  Hard to describe how a visual image can cause one to hear a sound, but that's exactly what El Greco does for me.  It's not imagination.  I remember visiting a museum and, just wandering around gaping at this and that, suddenly hearing a subtle but unmistakable roar in my ears -- from two rooms away lined up in an enfilade, emanating from a small painting at the end of the second one.  I couldn't even see what was painted on it!  It pulled me like a magnet and I almost ran across two rooms, the roar in my ears getting louder.  When I approached it, turned out it was "presumed to be by an artist of El Greco school," it wasn't signed.  Ha!  Experts!  I could tell them it was definitely an El Greco!  I didn't know the word qi back then -- but even if I did, telling the experts that the qi of his paintings resonates with mine in such a way that I can't possibly mistake his brush for anyone else's wouldn't convince them.        

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' William Blake, The Fall of Satan '

 

 

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[senseless virtue]

Selected works of Sophie Anderson:

 

 

The Song of the Lark

 

 

 

Take the Fair Face of Woman, and Gently Suspending, With Butterflies, Flowers, and Jewels Attending, Thus Your Fairy is Made of Most Beautiful Things

 

 

 

After the Earthquake