Jen Mona Lisa 2012 |
Mona
Lisa or La Gioconda (da Vinci)
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 Two Sisters or On the Terrace"Renoir worked on the painting on the terrace of the Maison Fournaise, a restaurant located on an island in the Seine in Chatou, the western suburb of Paris. The painting depicts a young woman and her younger sister seated outdoors..." |
La Gioconto - " The sitter, Lisa del Giocondo was a member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany, and the wife of wealthy Florentine silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo. The painting is thought to have been commissioned for their new home, and to celebrate the birth of their second son, Andrea..."; "The ambiguity of the subject's expression, which is frequently described as enigmatic..."
The last quoted comment is widely repeated. I myself, having painted a fair number of portraits, don 't find anything "enigmatic" at all, she's simply in a self-contained mood, feeling right about maybe herself, her life, and being painted.
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Henri Matisse
Henri-... was
a French artist, known for his use of colour and
his fluid and original ["style"] Matisse is
commonly regarded, along with Pablo
Picasso and Marcel
Duchamp, as one of the three artists
... responsible for significant
developments in painting and sculpture [in
the post-impressionist era]...
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- Fine Art Female Nudes
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you can also find me by searching on google+, g linsenmayer Or, online, search "g linsenmayer"...
Portrate
of Crissy
This is an original digital print, a portrait of a young woman, Gulf Coast Florida
Girl with a Pearl Earring - "considered a Vermeer masterpiece"
 "Critics have often noted that the women in Vermeer's paintings cannot be considered beauties in the conventional sense of the word. ... The qualities that we attribute to Vermeer's work as a whole apply equally to the women they picture: paintings and personages share dignity, equilibrium and [are] exceptional of both vivid presence and abstract purity" ... Vermeer - Girl With a Red Hat "None of the women who modeled for Vermeer's paintings have ever been identified even though some seemed to have posed more than once ... we know nothing else about their lives. Modern scholarship generally holds that they were not painted as portraits except, perhaps, A Lady Writing in Washington. Even Vermeer's four bust-length figures, including the illustrious Girl with a Pearl Earring, were not intended as portraits ... (my own underlining) |
