The Medusa Fora

This is the painting but it's a bit distorted as it was taken while it was hanging up on the wall.

jennylois wrote:This is the painting but it's a bit distorted as it was taken while it was hanging up on the wall.

Terrific work! Pinteresque. No, Ruebenesque.

It's fabulous, Jennifer. Have you sold that one, or is it in that exhibition?

It's not unlike the style of Alexandre Cabanel's 'Echo', painted in 1887.

Irishbookish wrote:It's fabulous, Jennifer. Have you sold that one, or is it in that exhibition?

Ummm what painting are you talking about Bookish!

Hey look at this: http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/attachments/Q ... ermeer.mov

from the Europeana site.

best woishes to make grand success oin UK Jenny me froiend.

Michael Parkes

http://www.piersidegallery.com/artists/parkes/

Pyro wrote:

Clash Cadillac wrote:Hands down Chris Mars. Photos of his work do not do justice to the beauty up close. He has been called a "modern day master".

Chris Mars Publishing

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Wow, super awesome, Clash! Went right into my favourites

Hey Pyro, nice to see you back around these parts.

We finally got to see a Chris mars exhibit while we were in Phoenix a few weeks ago. His work is even more amazing in person.
This is one we saw there...

Clash Cadillac wrote:

Pyro wrote:

Clash Cadillac wrote:Hands down Chris Mars. Photos of his work do not do justice to the beauty up close. He has been called a "modern day master".

Chris Mars Publishing

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Wow, super awesome, Clash! Went right into my favourites

Hey Pyro, nice to see you back around these parts.

We finally got to see a Chris mars exhibit while we were in Phoenix a few weeks ago. His work is even more amazing in person.
This is one we saw there...

also, Pyro, here is another one we bought a few years ago...

Well they'd brighten up any living room...

After seeing a collection of Art Nouveau work in the Paris Orsay Museum, my interest has been renewed in Aubrey Beardsley, controversial illustrator from that era. I discovered his work when I was 11 in an old dictionary at home and brought home everything I could about him from the library. In spite of being shocked at his more erotic and fabulously indecent pictures, my Mum just said that because it was art she didn't mind, as long as I didn't show them to my sisters (or Dad!). So then, not having any brothers, Aubrey Beardsley's illustrations (particularly The Lacedemonian Ambassadors from Lysistrata) were certainly educational. He died from tuberculosis at age 26. Wonderful designs, love his work: http://www.art.com/gallery/id--a3727/au ... osters.htm

http://www.brianwhelan.co.uk/
Popes' artwoirk maker, just broilloiant, oiutstandoin' !

New Work by Chris Mars, this titled Something Empty.

Théodore Géricault used friends as models for his painting The Raft of the Medusa, including artist Eugène Delacroix who posed for the figure in the front, face turned down and arm stretched out.

It's interesting to read on Wikipedia his method of painting. His friend Hubert Wellington wrote "Géricault allowed me to see his Raft of Medusa while he was still working on it. It made so tremendous an impression on me that when I came out of the studio I started running like a madman and did not stop till I reached my own room."

jennylois wrote:Théodore Géricault used friends as models for his painting The Raft of the Medusa, including artist Eugène Delacroix who posed for the figure in the front, face turned down and arm stretched out.

It's interesting to read on Wikipedia his method of painting. His friend Hubert Wellington wrote "Géricault allowed me to see his Raft of Medusa while he was still working on it. It made so tremendous an impression on me that when I came out of the studio I started running like a madman and did not stop till I reached my own room."

Jenny, there is much more on the making and history of that painting in Jonathan Miles, Medusa. The Shipwreck, the Scandal, the Masterpiece. Putrid severed heads from the morgue, huge publicity, anti-slavery agitation and loads more. Great read.

Thanks Christine, I must read it. I read that he did a lot of research into skin tones of the dead. Speaking of skin tones, have you seen the work of Jenny Saville?