FAVOURITE PAINTINGS

Ivan Aivazovsky

Claude Monet

Bella wrote:

Ivan Aivazovsky

This is one of my favourite paintings, Bella. The artist has captured the swollen sea with such realism.

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Self Portrait

Van Gogh Cafe terrace at night Brings to mind this song,although the Cafe in the picture is in Arles not Paris as the song suggests. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAdal53PKmk

Re: Paintings and Music



by admin on 2008-08-18, 02:41:44 pm

Bella

Shine

Bella's

QUOTE " Malcom Warner's excellent entry for this painting in the 1984
Tate catalogue points out that "with 'Autumn Leaves' Millais set out to
paint 'a picture full of beauty and without subject', a work in which
the very specific story-telling that plays such a part in his paintings
of the early-1850s is replaced by a concern for creating a mood and
suggesting more universal ideas. The season, the deadleaves, the
smokeand the sunset are allimages of transcience, reminders that all
things must pass. It is a setting redolent of decay and death that
makes us conscious that the girls in the foreground, for all their
youth and beauty, must inevitably go through the same processes. The
apple held by the little on the right is an emblem of autumn but may
also intended to recall the Original Sin that made mankind subject to
mortality. . . .'Autumn Levaes' . . . . has a solemn, almost
sacremental feeling that one might call religious. . . . The ideas of
autumn as inducing what Millais calls "the deepest idea of religious
reflection" comes not [as his PRB brother F. G. Stephens suggested]
from the Psalms or any other part of the Bible but from contemporary
English poetry" (139). According to Warner, the painter was reading
Tennyson's The Princess while working on the painting, "and his
thoughts echo the poet's as expressed in the well-known song in Part
IV:"


bella this is the script for above picture

Bella

The Cave Of The Storm Nymphs - Edward John Poynter

lola.




Re: Paintings and Music



by lola on 2008-10-11, 07:14:38 pm

Shine.

Shine.

Bella.

This crowd seem particularly focused , Dalai Lama visits Berlin 2008

bella,