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Art lovers - Picture of the day - April 25
Albert Anker(1831 - 1910)
Albert Samuel Anker was a Swiss painter and illustrator who has been called the "national painter" of Switzerland because of his enduringly popular depictions of 19th-century Swiss social life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_...
Two Girls on the Stove Bench
1895
Oil on canvas
55,5 x 71,5 cm
Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
Ankers realism is so poignant. Another beautiful choice Dirk.
Albert Anker(1831 - 1910)
A favorite of mine as well. I'm looking forward to this month.
William Powell Frith(1819 - 1909)
William Powell Frith RA was an English painter specialising in genre subjects and panoramic narrative works of life in the Victorian era. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1853, presenting The Sleeping Model as his Diploma work. He has been described as the "greatest British painter of the social scene since Hogarth".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...
The Sleeping Model
1853
Oil on canvas
63.2 x 72.8 cm
The Royal Academy of Arts
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-a...
The Sleeping Model1853
Oil on canvas
63.2 x 72.8 cm
The Royal Academy of Arts
Very nice.
The Sleeping Model1853
Oil on canvas
63.2 x 72.8 cm
The Royal Academy of Arts
ooh!
Henri Rousseau(1844 - 1910)
Henri Julien Félix Rousseau was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), a humorous description of his occupation as a toll and tax collector. He started painting seriously in his early forties; by age 49, he retired from his job to work on his art full-time.
Ridiculed during his lifetime by critics, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality. Rousseau's work exerted an extensive influence on several generations of avant-garde artists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_R...
The Sleeping Gypsy
1897
Oil on canvas
129.5 × 200.7 cm
MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York
https://www.moma.org/collection/works...
The Sleeping Gypsy1897
Oil on canvas
129.5 × 200.7 cm
MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York
I do not know why, but I truly like this one. It is a favorite of mine.
Rembrandt(1606 - 1669)
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, mononymously known simply as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of Western art. It is estimated Rembrandt's surviving works amount to about three hundred paintings, three hundred etchings, and several hundred drawings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rembrandt
Sleeping Puppy
1640
etching and drypoint
39 x 81 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collect...
Dirk wrote: "Rembrandt(1606 - 1669)
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, mononymously known simply as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He is generally considered one of the g..."
Adorable!
Sleeping Puppy1640
etching and drypoint
39 x 81 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Really good. I fear if my wife sees this one, then it will begin her campaign once again for a dog.
Craig Vasiliev wrote: "Sleeping Puppy1640
etching and drypoint
39 x 81 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Really good. I fear if my wife sees this one, then it will begin her campaign once again for a dog."
I also like dogs but don't have one. We have three cats instead, one adopted and two strays who decided to stay with us.
Willem van Mieris(1662– 1747)
Willem van Mieris was a painter, sculptor and etcher active in Leiden. He was born in Leiden and studied under his father Frans van Mieris the Elder (1635–1682), who was a successful genre painter. Willem had a reasonably successful career, being supported by a few patrons who commissioned and collected various of his works. His oeuvre consists mostly of genre and portraiture, with some landscape painting, as well as some sculptures. Van Mieris' style was that of the fijnschilders (painters in the "fine manner"), and his genre works, especially later in his career, depicted scenes from upper-class society.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_...
The Sleeping Hurdy Gurdy player
1690
Oil on panel
24.5 x 20.5 cm
The Kremer Collection, Amsterdam
https://thekremercollection.com/paint...
Sang Ik Seo(B. 1977)
Sang-ik Seo is a Korean Asian Modern & Contemporary artist who was born in 1977. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Atelier Aki have featured Sang-ik Seo's work in the past.Sang-ik Seo's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 1,178 USD to 5,500 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2020 the record price for this artist at auction is 5,500 USD for A scene with Hockney 2, sold at Seoul Auction in 2020.
https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Sang...
Sunday PM 4
2007
Oil on canvas
162 × 130 cm
Private collection
Sunday PM 42007
Oil on canvas
162 × 130 cm
Private collection
Very cool.
Rupert Bunny(1864 - 1947)
Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny was an Australian painter. Born and raised in Melbourne, Victoria, he achieved success and critical acclaim as an expatriate in fin-de-siècle Paris. He gained an honourable mention at the Paris Salon of 1890 with his painting Tritons and a bronze medal at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900 with his Burial of St Catherine of Alexandria. The French state acquired 13 of his works for the Musée du Luxembourg and regional collections. He was a "sumptuous colourist and splendidly erudite painter of ideal themes, and the creator of the most ambitious Salon paintings produced by an Australian."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_...
Endormies
c. 1904
Oil on canvas
130 x 200 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/co...
Frederic Leighton(1830 - 1896)
Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, PRA, known as Sir Frederic Leighton between 1878 and 1896, was a British Victorian painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical, and classical subject matter in an academic style. His paintings were enormously popular and expensive, during his lifetime, but fell out of critical favour for many decades in the early 20th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederi...
Cymon and Iphigenia
1884
Oil on canvas.
63 × 328 cm.
Private collection
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/col...
Based on Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron, the painting depicts a scene from the first tale of day five; Iphigenia is sleeping in the woods and Cymon, a young nobleman, stands gazing at her beauty which fills him with inspiration. After seeing her, Cymon changes from a badly mannered lout to an ideal polymath.
Dirk, Your beautiful posts always cheer my mornings.
Thank you again!
E wrote: "Dirk, Your beautiful posts always cheer my mornings.
Thank you again!"
You're welcome E. !
I hope I will be able to continue for a while...
Peter Paul Rubens(1577–1640)
Sir Peter Paul Rubens was a Flemish artist and diplomat. He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens' highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history. His unique and immensely popular Baroque style emphasised movement, colour, and sensuality, which followed the immediate, dramatic artistic style promoted in the Counter-Reformation. Rubens was a painter producing altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects. He was also a prolific designer of cartoons for the Flemish tapestry workshops and of frontispieces for the publishers in Antwerp.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_P...
Two Sleeping Children c. 1612-13
Oil on canvas
65.5 × 50.5 cm
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
https://collection.nmwa.go.jp/en/P.19...
Two Sleeping Children
c. 1612-13Oil on canvas
65.5 × 50.5 cm
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Very nice. I like it.
Mary Cassatt (1844 - 1926)
Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh's North Side), but lived much of her adult life in France, where she befriended Edgar Degas and exhibited with the Impressionists. Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ca...
Children in a Garden (The Nurse)
1878
Oil on canvas
81 x 65.4 cm
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
https://emuseum.mfah.org/objects/5388...
Children in a Garden (The Nurse)1878
Oil on canvas
81 x 65.4 cm
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Incredible.
Reminds me of my Grandma and when my brother was little. Another brilliant choice Dirk.
Oh, I'm sorry Craig, my old eyes..I scrolled too quick.
Berthe Morisot(1841–1895 )
Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot was a French painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthe_...
The Cradle
1872
Oil on canvas
56 x 46 cm
Musée d’Orsay, paris
https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artwork...
Adolph Artz(1837 - 1890)
David Adolph Constant Artz was a Dutch painter and collector who associated with some members of the Hague School.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_...
Lulled to Sleep
1871
56x 39 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collect...
Candido Portinari(1903 - 1962)
Candido Portinari was a Brazilian painter. He is considered one of the most important Brazilian painters as well as a prominent and influential practitioner of the neo-realism style in painting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candido...
Boy Sleeping
1960
Oil on canvas
20 cm × 17 cm
Projeto Portinari, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
https://www.portinari.org.br/en/archi...
A very interesting painting Dirk.The artist's uses spatial distortions with color and subject matter.
This makes what should be a peaceful scene cause a visual conflict that might be disturbing.
E wrote: "A very interesting painting Dirk.The artist's uses spatial distortions with color and subject matter.
This makes what should be a peaceful scene cause a visual conflict that might be disturbing."
My thoughts as well. This piece is very well done.
Eva Gonzalès(1849 - 1883)
Eva Gonzalès was a French Impressionist painter. She was one of the four most notable female Impressionists in the nineteenth century, along with Mary Cassatt (1844–1926), Berthe Morisot (1841–95), and Marie Bracquemond (1840–1916).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Gon...
Girl Awakening`
c. 1877/78
Oil on canvas
81 x 100 cm
Kunsthalle Bremen
https://onlinekatalog.kunsthalle-brem...
The painting reflects the ethereal fleeting reflection of a young woman. perhaps her thoughts in drifting between dreaming and fully awakening.Eva Gonzales is considered part of the impressionist movement style.
In reading how Eva's life was cut short in childbirth at the age of 34, it is a tragic event.
It was a time when so many women perished having children. So many events could cause this.
Unbelievably in 1883, there were still some surgeons and physicians that did not wash their hands or thoroughly sterilize their equipment.
Dirk wrote: "Eva Gonzalès(1849 - 1883)
Eva Gonzalès was a French Impressionist painter. She was one of the four most notable female Impressionists in the nineteenth century, along with Mary Cassatt (1844–1926..."
Charming!
E wrote: "The painting reflects the ethereal fleeting reflection of a young woman. perhaps her thoughts in drifting between dreaming and fully awakening.Eva Gonzales is considered part of the impressionist..."
Indeed, one can't help but wonder what beautiful artworks she would have made if she lived 40 years or more longer!
Vincenzo Irolli(1860- 1949)
Vincenzo Irolli was an Italian painter born in Naples, then in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. He enrolled in the Naples Institute of Fine Arts, where his masters included Gioacchino Toma, in 1877 and graduated three years later. The work he presented regularly at the exhibitions of the Naples Società Promotrice di Belle Arti as from 1879 comprised portraits and genre scenes. In 1884 in Turin, he exhibited Amore e dovere and Le Maddalene d' oggi; in 1880 in Milan and in 1887 in Venice, he exhibited numerous drawings from reality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenz...
The Angel Musician
1900-1905
Oil on canvas
191 x 89.5 cm
Fondazione Cariplo, Milano
https://gallerieditalia.com/en/online...#
The guardian Angel brings the gift of music.
I really like these last two that you've shared, Dirk.
Craig Vasiliev wrote: "I really like these last two that you've shared, Dirk."They are among my favorites too, Craig.
Diego Rivera(1886 - 1957)
Diego Rivera was a Mexican painter. His large frescoes helped establish the mural movement in Mexican and international art. Between 1922 and 1953, Rivera painted murals in, among other places, Mexico City, Chapingo, and Cuernavaca, Mexico; and San Francisco, Detroit, and New York City. In 1931, a retrospective exhibition of his works was held at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan, New York. That was before he completed his 27-mural series known as Detroit Industry Murals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_R...
Sueño (Sleep)
1932
Lithograph
30 x 41.3 cm.
MoMA
https://www.moma.org/collection/works...
Dirk wrote: "Diego Rivera(1886 - 1957)
Diego Rivera was a Mexican painter. His large frescoes helped establish the mural movement in Mexican and international art. Between 1922 and 1953, Rivera painted murals..."
Revisiting Frida Kahlo! Obvious.
The great artist Diego Rivera became friends with Amedeo Modigliani, who painted the portrait of his friend many times.He was also friends with Pablo Picasso, although they had a falling out over a dispute in technique.
Diego Riveras attraction to Frida Kahlo, who was also a great artist, was a historic love at first sight.
She died too soon at the age of 47.
E wrote: "The great artist Diego Rivera became friends with Amedeo Modigliani, who painted the portrait of his friend many times.He was also friends with Pablo Picasso, although they had a falling out over..."
Frida passed away due to a health problem.
I won't reveal at first what the theme is, so the first days it's a bit of a guessing game. But I think it will not be too difficult.
You are welcome to comment on the pictures posted, or on other people's comments, you can say whatever you want (keeping with the rules of the group of course).
The only rule to this thread is that the person running this thread can post a picture here.
So please don't post a picture in this thread. That's all!
Enjoy!