Mrs Miggins
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I've been marvelling to this anew again. My new man has been asking me about art and I have told him all about this painting. It's so endlessly fascinating to me.
The art you like thread.
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Mrs Miggins
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4 years and I still cry sometimes
That’s a great picture. An interesting fact is the dress would have been lined with the white fur from red squirrels. To have lined it would have taken several hundred skins. Similarly the number of furs for the mans coat would have been into the hundreds.
The mirror reflects the painter and is a device he used in a number of his paintings.
Mrs Miggins
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I really like Helmut Newton and have finally bought the enormous book, Sumo, that I've wanted for years
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bmd
Island in the stream.
What a fantastic photograph. It's Thin White Duke meets Lily Marlene territory. I love that suit he's wearing. I have a pair of gaucho trousers because I saw a colourised photo of some old Argentinian cowboy dudes chilling at a rodeo from about 1910. They looked so fucking cool without even trying.
Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum has just put this super high res image of Rembrandts Nightwatch online (not one of my favourites - I'd be across the room looking at the Vermeers - but it's interesting to look at in detail)
bmd
Island in the stream.
The Dutch Proverbs - Peter Bruegel the Elder.
The picture brings together 100 proverbs and places them in surroundings that are as real as the people's behavior, revealed in terse and apposite form by the wise sayings. The individual scenes are played out side by side, without being directly dependent on each other. A village near the sea provides a spacious stage for the apparently everyday tasks of its inhabitants. The background for all the varied activity is made up of a farmhouse, dilapidated huts, a stone bridge with pillory and tower, the village square at the center of the activity, and a farmstead among cornfields near the wood. In the distance is the open sea, shining in the sun of a late summer's day.
The painting's old title The Upside-Down World derives from the symbol of a globe standing on its head. This is intended to illustrate that we are in a world in which nothing is as it should be. The wise sayings are evidence of man's folly and sinfulness in a crazy world that has turned away from God. This proverb picture is evidence of Bruegel's intense preoccupation with the spiritual and moral questions of his time, which give the work its timeless validity.
Famous for his landscapes and peasant scenes, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, was a Netherlandish Renaissance painter and printmaker. He was the pioneer of Netherlandish genre painting because his focus lay on village life, as we can see today.
We present this amazing painting thanks to the Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. In cooperation with this great institution, we are preparing something special for you. You will see in May! : )
Take care,
Zuzanna
P.S. My three favorite Bruegel paintings are Hunters in the Snow, Harvesters and the Landscape with the Fall of Icarus. Click on the links to read about them. <3
It's a bit 'where's Wally' this, for me. There's a lot going on, mainly people working. I guess that was what they did in those days, worked to live. There was no free time. Some people seem quite happy and others seem rather unhappy. Plus ca change.
The picture brings together 100 proverbs and places them in surroundings that are as real as the people's behavior, revealed in terse and apposite form by the wise sayings. The individual scenes are played out side by side, without being directly dependent on each other. A village near the sea provides a spacious stage for the apparently everyday tasks of its inhabitants. The background for all the varied activity is made up of a farmhouse, dilapidated huts, a stone bridge with pillory and tower, the village square at the center of the activity, and a farmstead among cornfields near the wood. In the distance is the open sea, shining in the sun of a late summer's day.
The painting's old title The Upside-Down World derives from the symbol of a globe standing on its head. This is intended to illustrate that we are in a world in which nothing is as it should be. The wise sayings are evidence of man's folly and sinfulness in a crazy world that has turned away from God. This proverb picture is evidence of Bruegel's intense preoccupation with the spiritual and moral questions of his time, which give the work its timeless validity.
Famous for his landscapes and peasant scenes, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, was a Netherlandish Renaissance painter and printmaker. He was the pioneer of Netherlandish genre painting because his focus lay on village life, as we can see today.
We present this amazing painting thanks to the Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. In cooperation with this great institution, we are preparing something special for you. You will see in May! : )
Take care,
Zuzanna
P.S. My three favorite Bruegel paintings are Hunters in the Snow, Harvesters and the Landscape with the Fall of Icarus. Click on the links to read about them. <3
It's a bit 'where's Wally' this, for me. There's a lot going on, mainly people working. I guess that was what they did in those days, worked to live. There was no free time. Some people seem quite happy and others seem rather unhappy. Plus ca change.
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
This website has some excellent videos and short articles that teach the basics of art history: Smarthistory
bmd
Island in the stream.
It's 2 women
Glad you like it though.
Is it!? Fooled me. Doesn't take much tbf.
dessiato
4 years and I still cry sometimes
Bit of fun
www.theguardian.com
I only got 5 right,
How do we know Monet painted this outdoors? The great British art quiz
The National Gallery in London has set today’s quiz, which allows you to explore the collections of museums closed due to coronavirus – while answering some tricky questions
I only got 5 right,
dessiato
4 years and I still cry sometimes
An interesting article about this
BBC News - The Night Watch: Will Gompertz reviews the Rijksmuseum's high tech photo ★★★★★
The Night Watch: Will Gompertz reviews the Rijksmuseum's high tech photo ★★★★★
The Rijksmuseum is using technology to increase our understanding and appreciation of a Golden Age great.
www.bbc.co.uk
I follow this guy on twitter, who mostly just posts amazing landscape paintings you've never seen before, by painters you've never heard of. I've followed so many artists up as a result of stuff he's posted.
Henry Rothwell (@HenryRothwell) on Twitter
The latest Tweets from Henry Rothwell (@HenryRothwell). Natural history, science, archaeology and art. Home of Grave Goods. Likes ponds. Writes a bit. Englandtwitter.com
I love this killer b
It's gorgeous. I want to prod the road, it looks soft and like it should bounce back. And run my hand over the ridges of blue trees.
bmd
Island in the stream.
Part of the British Surrealist Group. He was injured in WW1 while digging his mate out from being buried by a shell's explosion. Lost one leg above the knee and the other was badly injured. Lived in Sheffield all his 63 years.
bmd
Island in the stream.
Dear diary, the market was a bit weird this week.
That’s really interesting. That’s exactly the kind of information I’d like to know about a painting cos it makes it make a bit more sense, you can place it.An interesting article about this
BBC News - The Night Watch: Will Gompertz reviews the Rijksmuseum's high tech photo ★★★★★
The Night Watch: Will Gompertz reviews the Rijksmuseum's high tech photo ★★★★★
The Rijksmuseum is using technology to increase our understanding and appreciation of a Golden Age great.www.bbc.co.uk
bmd
Island in the stream.
It's funny, this lockdown thing. There is talk about having time to learn a hobby. I guess this is what it's like if you have enough money to buy that time. I always think that wages are the biggest con. Time is our most precious resource, a living thing's most precious resource and yet we give it away for peanuts.
That's what this painting makes me think about.
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Books, not bombs
Sorry it is not in English, but, you can view the whole pic in close up. madness. Kampf zwischen Fasching und Fasten
dessiato
4 years and I still cry sometimes
That’s one of the reasons I fell in love with the Girl with a Pearl earring. It‘s just so amazing when you get close to it and start to see that it something that is created as much from the very fine detail as from what isn’t there. If you look there’s no actual nose, it’s just wonderfully constructed from shades of colour. She also doesn’t actually have eyebrows, but they seem to be there. There’s no shading or anything, but you seem to see them. Her pearl, although too large to be real, is made up of just four brushstrokes.
For me, the more I look at these great paintings and painters the more I realise how great their talent is.
Dali was an absolute master of this. When you realise how incredibly huge some of his paintings are, but look at the way he has painted so much fine detail into them, and that to see these details you need binoculars, then look at the different pictures that he created within those paintings it is mind boggling. One that always amazes me is the Hallucinogenic Toreador There isn’t actually a toreador, he is created from the other parts of the painting. I’ve seen it several times and it is beyond my ability to describe what it is like.
This doesn’t do the real work any justice,
he often painted himself in the artwork. He fell out with his father, but after his father died he would put a small picture of a father holding a child‘s hand somewhere on the painting. It is thought that this is supposed to be him and his father reconciled.
