Kamis, 31 Mei 2012

Victorian paints


A Victorian bladder of paint before tubes were invented. Some artists preferred glass jars. The bladders would have been made from pig membrane and tied at the top with strong twine to exclude air. Artists had a wide choice of pigments that came from minerals, precious stones, rocks, vegetables, insects and plants. Some of the new colours he used came about by the advances of modern chemistry. He used: lead white, zinc white, ultramarine ash, vermilion, chromium oxide, zinc yellow, chrome yellow, cobalt blue, Prussian blue, burnt sienna, Naples yellow, madder lake, ivory black and bone black. Greens were mixed greens of chrome yellow and Prussian Blue, possibly from a tube of green paint.

Artists would have mixed their oil paint (a mixture of pigment and oil) with another liquid to make the pigment more fluid and transparent. This liquid is called the medium and a common one used was copal medium, a resin (a sticky substance produced by trees) dissolved in oil (see image) to make the paint more fluid.

Before the introduction of ready-made paint, artists had to mix paint themselves.

Victorian cricket icon for sale


http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55721

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Selasa, 29 Mei 2012

Berkshire, Sonning Village


A Woman's Protest (Clough) by John Liston Byam Shaw,


“Notice Neptune, though . . . ” - John Liston Byam Shaw c. 1900



The Studio (1900)
This illustration to Robert Browning's “‘My Last Duchess” has the full title “Notice Neptune, though, / Taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity, / Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me.’ Robert Browning. From a Watercolour by Byam Shaw, R.I.”
The artist has depicted the close of Browning's poem, which appropriately closes with the vicious duke's relating how he tamed his “last” wife, who now survives only in a work of art he owns, with the image of a work of art depicting another act of “taming.”

Love that Wastes Our Little Schoolgirl's Time - John Liston Byam Shaw Before 1899 The Studio


The Caged Bird - John Byam Liston Shaw, 1872-1919 1907


SCENES FROM THE ANCIENT GRAECO-ROMAN WORLD



Henryk Siemiradzki
Source polona.pl
From en.wikipedia.org


Henryk Siemiradzki (15 November 1843 – 23 August 1902)was born to a Polish noble szlachta family of a military physician, Hipolit Siemiradzki, and Michalina (nee Prószyńska) in the village of Bilhorod (Białogród), or Novobelgorod (now Pechenegi, sources vary) near the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv under the Russian Empire. His parents were close friends with Adam Mickiewicz's family. Henryk Siemiradzki studied at Kharkiv Gymnasium where he first learned painting under the local school teacher, D.I. Besperchy, former student of Karl Briullov. He entered the Physics-Mathematics School of Kharkov University and studied natural sciences there with great interest, but also continued to paint. After graduating from the University with the degree of Kandidat he abandoned his scientific career and moved to Saint Petersburg to study painting at the Imperial Academy of Arts in the years 1864–1870. Upon his graduation he was awarded a gold medal. In 1870–1871 he studied under Karl von Piloty in Munich on a grant from the Academy. In 1872 he moved to Rome and with time, built a studio there on via Gaeta Avenue, while spending summers at his estate in Strzałkowo near Częstochowa in Poland. Siemiradzki was active in the period of foreign Partitions of Poland, and best remembered for his monumental Academic art. He was particularly known for his depictions of scenes from the ancient Graeco-Roman world and the New Testament, owned by national galleries of Poland, Russia and Ukraine.
(en.wikipedia.org)


‘Le Repos, De’
From artmight.com


Rome Village
From allartclassic.com


‘Am Brunnen, bezeichnet H. Siemiradzky, Öl auf Leinwand’
Source Dorotheum
From commons.wikimedia.org


‘Wasserträgerin in antiker Landschaft mit Olivenbäumen’
The Patrician Siesta Images
From onokart.files.wordpress.com


‘Phrine al festival di poseidone agli eleusinia’ (detail)
Source sailko
From commons.wikimedia.org


The future victims of the Colosseum
Author M0tty
From commons.wikimedia.org


Siemiradzki went to Munich, at that time the second, after Paris, artistic center of Europe. He was confident enough to work independently, however he visited the studios of other masters, and especially often that of Carl Piloti, the famous historical painter. In Munich, Siemiradzki painted his first big work Roman Orgy in the Time of the Caesars (1872). The picture was bought by the St. Petersburg Academy, and the money helped the artist move to Italy. In Rome, where everything lives and breathes with art, he remained for the rest of his life, visiting Russia only from time to time. In the 1890s Siemiradzki worked for the theater, he designed stage curtains for the Krakow and Lvov theaters, decorated the house of the Philharmonic Society in Warsaw. Henryk Siemiradzki died in 1902 in his estate Strzalkowo, near Czestochowy in Poland, he was buried first in Warsaw, but in a year was re-buried in Krakow in the necropolis of the famous Poles. Though Siemiradzki received his education in Russia, his art can’t be classified as any ‘national’ school. It is international. The painter himself is one of the best representatives of the late European Neoclassicism.
(Olga’s gallery at abcgallery.com)

SCENES FROM THE ANCIENT GRAECO-ROMAN WORLD



Henryk Siemiradzki
Source polona.pl
From en.wikipedia.org


Henryk Siemiradzki (15 November 1843 – 23 August 1902)was born to a Polish noble szlachta family of a military physician, Hipolit Siemiradzki, and Michalina (nee Prószyńska) in the village of Bilhorod (Białogród), or Novobelgorod (now Pechenegi, sources vary) near the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv under the Russian Empire. His parents were close friends with Adam Mickiewicz's family. Henryk Siemiradzki studied at Kharkiv Gymnasium where he first learned painting under the local school teacher, D.I. Besperchy, former student of Karl Briullov. He entered the Physics-Mathematics School of Kharkov University and studied natural sciences there with great interest, but also continued to paint. After graduating from the University with the degree of Kandidat he abandoned his scientific career and moved to Saint Petersburg to study painting at the Imperial Academy of Arts in the years 1864–1870. Upon his graduation he was awarded a gold medal. In 1870–1871 he studied under Karl von Piloty in Munich on a grant from the Academy. In 1872 he moved to Rome and with time, built a studio there on via Gaeta Avenue, while spending summers at his estate in Strzałkowo near Częstochowa in Poland. Siemiradzki was active in the period of foreign Partitions of Poland, and best remembered for his monumental Academic art. He was particularly known for his depictions of scenes from the ancient Graeco-Roman world and the New Testament, owned by national galleries of Poland, Russia and Ukraine.
(en.wikipedia.org)


‘Le Repos, De’
From artmight.com


Rome Village
From allartclassic.com


‘Am Brunnen, bezeichnet H. Siemiradzky, Öl auf Leinwand’
Source Dorotheum
From commons.wikimedia.org


‘Wasserträgerin in antiker Landschaft mit Olivenbäumen’
The Patrician Siesta Images
From onokart.files.wordpress.com


‘Phrine al festival di poseidone agli eleusinia’ (detail)
Source sailko
From commons.wikimedia.org


The future victims of the Colosseum
Author M0tty
From commons.wikimedia.org


Siemiradzki went to Munich, at that time the second, after Paris, artistic center of Europe. He was confident enough to work independently, however he visited the studios of other masters, and especially often that of Carl Piloti, the famous historical painter. In Munich, Siemiradzki painted his first big work Roman Orgy in the Time of the Caesars (1872). The picture was bought by the St. Petersburg Academy, and the money helped the artist move to Italy. In Rome, where everything lives and breathes with art, he remained for the rest of his life, visiting Russia only from time to time. In the 1890s Siemiradzki worked for the theater, he designed stage curtains for the Krakow and Lvov theaters, decorated the house of the Philharmonic Society in Warsaw. Henryk Siemiradzki died in 1902 in his estate Strzalkowo, near Czestochowy in Poland, he was buried first in Warsaw, but in a year was re-buried in Krakow in the necropolis of the famous Poles. Though Siemiradzki received his education in Russia, his art can’t be classified as any ‘national’ school. It is international. The painter himself is one of the best representatives of the late European Neoclassicism.
(Olga’s gallery at abcgallery.com)

Senin, 28 Mei 2012

Anstey’s Cove, John William Inchbold


Jack Butler Yeats


Self Portrait, Ralph Hedley


Vesta Tilley


 Originally named Matilda Alice Powles (1864 – 1952), she was the most famous and well paid music hall male impersonator of her day. She was a star in both Britain and the United States for over thirty years. Her father was a comedy actor and sometimes theatre manager, and Tilley first appeared on stage at the age of three and a half. At the age of six she did her first role in male clothing under the name Pocket Sims Reeves, a parody of then-famous opera singer Sims Reeves. She would come to prefer doing male roles exclusively, saying that “I felt that I could express myself better if I were dressed as a boy”.

Cassell’s Family Magazine, 1889


Maggie Hamilton Mrs AN Paterson by Sir James Guthrie


Portrait of Stoddart Walker's wife by Sir James Guthrie


The Morning Walk by Sir James Guthrie


Street in Oban Night by Sir James Guthrie


Mr. Palethorpe’s jealousy aroused. John Leech, from Colin Clink vol. 3, by Charles Hooton, London, 1841.


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