Showing posts with label Italalian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Italalian. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Art Foraging - The Latest Catch


Online this week, I perused the work of David Alfaro Siqueros...

 Photographer Tina Modotti...




three Andrew Wyeth paintings I was previously unfamiliar with...

and these fascinating images of our planet Earth, from the exhibition Earth As Art, at the Library of Congress


and lastly, a rare photo of Andy Warhol by William John Kennedy
article here

Saturday, February 5, 2011

The Saturday (whenver) Nudes

I know, I know. It doesn't have the same ring to it. But. Just as life takes its twists and turns, so does nudity.  ;-)  I blow myself away by my profundity. All I want to say is that the nudes did not make it last night due to the frigid temperatures in the Northeast.  It seems everything is taking longer to thaw than usual.

Happy weekend.




Orpheus and Eros



Francesca Ciurcina


 

 (no attribution for this one)




Kishin Shinoyama1971



Tuesday, September 21, 2010

ABC Wednesday

 I've recently started playing a really cool weekly blog meme called ABC Wednesday, in which participants compose a weekly post based on the letter that week. I posted a couple of my own photographs here, at the Pagan Sphinx and I've since been posting to my photo blog The Pagan's Eye. Since I've had a chance to visit the entries of other participants, I've noticed that people do a lot of creative and interesting things besides post original photographs of something that signifies the letter of the week.

I've decided to post to ABC Wednesday twice; one entry using an original photo at The Pagan's Eye and another here at the Pagan Sphinx, depicting the work of an artist whose name begins with the featured letter.

A simple little art history lesson.  That's the way I like it. The longer I live, the simpler I like to keep things. 

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank our host, whose name I keep not finding (I'm so sorry!) and all of the kind people who have left comments about my humble contributions.

Peace and love,
Pagan Sphinx

J is for Jacometto (Veneziano)

Italian Early Renaissance Painter, active 1472-1497





Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Spoofing Bacchus

  
Bacchus showed signs of alcohol abuse at a very young age. 

Note from me" I needed to lighten up so I'm posting this send-up for you.  This is an actual painting by Guido Reni; not an art parody.  I had to do a search on it to make sure!  :-D
I wish I had photoshop; it would be fun to caption it right on the image. 

Friday, September 25, 2009

The Friday Evening Nudes


Alexandre Cabanel
French


Albayde
1848

Not full nudes, but rather, scantily-clads


Italian
Romanticism



Alexandre Cabanel 
Albayde
1848

below:
Frederick Childe Hassam

Georges d’Espagnat
1870-1950
French



Rubens
Little Fur


Artemisia Gentilesch
Lucretia 
1620

(ok, I admit some of these are of the variety that people want to write captions about. Feel free if you are so inspired.  ;-) And be advised that I am only a teeny tiny bit judgmental.  ;-)


Have a happy and safe Friday.


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