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Wednesday, May 4, 2016
Traditional-Modern Fine Art - Portraits II - G. Linsenmayer
Monday, May 2, 2016
Traditional-Modern Fine Art - Ourselves I
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Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Traditional-Modern Fine Art - Portraits I - G. Linsenmayer
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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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) |
Saturday, August 9, 2014
20th Century - American Art
Twentieth Century American Traditional-Modern Art
I've always liked early 20th century American art, before our art world got taken over by abstraction and similarly somewhat inane art movements.
George Bellows... "George Bellows was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio. He was an only child, born four years after his parents married, at the ages of fifty and forty respectively. His mother, Anna Wilhelmina Smith, was the daughter of a whaling captain.  ... an original a "Bellows attended Ohio State University from 1901 until 1904. There he played for the baseball and basketball teams, and provided illustrations for the Makio, the school's student yearbook. He was encouraged to become a professional baseball player, and he worked as a commercial illustrator while a student and continued to accept magazine assignments throughout his life. Despite these opportunities in athletics and commercial art, Bellows desired success as a painter. He left Ohio State in 1904 just before he was to graduate and moved to New York City to study art." |
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Saturday, August 31, 2013
Impressionist and Post-Impressionist "Motif"
Art as "Motifs of Real Life"...
My own art has always been influenced by the idea
of "motif" and "real life". Much of abstract, post-abstract,
and "contemporary" art lacks these directions, ending up "full of
sound and fury, signifying nothing", or worse, nothing but trivial
decoration.
Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists used "Real Life" motifs (i.e., "what the
painting is about"), sharply in contrast to the idealized
"not real" subject matter of established academicism,
to see more, go here - "Impressionist
- Post Impressionist Motifs"  ... my current web sites: My Sites... Fine Arts Paintings and Digital Art Online Fine Art Traditional-Modern Fine Art Original Fine Art Nude Paintings and Digital Art Fine Art Nudes - Original Custom Digital Prints on Sale... Blogs... fine arts paintings fine art nude traditional-modern art fine art painters |
I like to think of my artwork motifs quite specifically. That is, the works here are not "portrait of a woman"; they are Eva and Shannon. | EVA  SHANNON  |
Friday, June 7, 2013
Post-Impressionism - Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin is another early
"traditional-modern" painter. He maintained a lot of the
impressionist ideas of motif; i.e., art relating to, in the 19th
century , "modern" outlooks on the real world, but with his own
post-impressionist style. "Modern" here is in contrast to
pre-impressionist art, which was so often (but not always) so
banal.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia...
"Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin ... was a leading French Post-Impressionist artist who was not well appreciated until after his death. Gauguin was later recognized for his experimental use of colors and synthetic style that were distinguishably different from Impressionism. His work was influential to the French avant-garde and many modern artists, such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse ..."
Gauguins art encompassed a wide variety of motif (see thumbnails below), I am showing here a few of his Tahitian pictures.
 (Tahitian: Nafea faa ipoipo?) 1892 "... the front figure indulges in dreamy fantasies, the rear figure is imbued with something rigid and rule-bound. The front woman stretches herself, her facial features stylized and simplified. The rear female figure ... face is painted with individual features and represents the center of the image. ..." I sometimes (almost always???) think that art academics get carried away... To me, as a painter, and with a son and daughter, this could more basic; there is mom, or aunt, and daughter; daughter looks like daughter, mom looks like mom, neither of them really are sure they want to be sitting there getting painted. Gauguin apparently was very mercurial, full of ups and downs, maybe mostly downs. Many of his pictures seem to reflect Gauguin, in this way; not necessarily those being painted. |
Tahitian Women on the Beach  Two Tahitian Women  |
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He also did a lot of paintings and art having to do with his notions of religious and mystic symbolism; this stuff is highly rated by art historians and critics, but I myself am not a believer in that kind of art... |
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Post-Impressionism - Van Gogh
Post-Impressionism and after - 19th Century
Post-Impressionism was a beginning of what to me is "Traditional-Modern" art; i.e., preserving the humanistic views of real people, but with arts styles which became "modern"; for more, go here...
From Wikipedia, "... Post-Impressionists extended Impressionism while rejecting its limitations: they continued using vivid colours, thick application of paint, distinctive brush strokes, and real-life subject matter, but they were more inclined to emphasize geometric forms, to distort form for expressive effect, and to use unnatural or arbitrary colour."
Vincent
van Gogh
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"... it does me good to do what’s difficult. That
doesn’t stop me having a tremendous need for, shall
I say the word – for religion – so I go outside at
night to paint the stars.'"
"... it does me good to do what’s difficult. That doesn’t stop me having a tremendous need for, shall I say the word – for religion – so I go outside at night to paint the stars.'" |
... Vincent's Room, Arles 1888; Vincent Van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam |
 Starry Night |
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Van Gogh painted a number of scenes of the wheat
field and cypresses; from images available on the
net, I like this one best.
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... A Wheat Field, with Cypresses, September 1889, National Gallery, London |
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