Adolphe-William Bouguereau
1825 – 1905
La Rochelle, France
And now about the caldron sing, Like elves and
fairies in a ring, Enchanting all that you put in.
--Shakespeare
Still life, forms and images painted
on a canvass raises in the mind
of the beholder
great conceptions
it strengthens consciousness
advances praise into rapture
for the single reason that we understand
their true worth as creations
by ready mortal hands
who worked in obedience to their minds
as if transported with some fit of passion
for every stroke of the brush...
-betterthanbare
Paintings speak to
every memory...
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| The Conversion of St Paul, 1552 abbate006. |
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| Seated Nude, 1884 boug001.jp |
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| Biblis, 1884 boug002.jp |
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| Labriedu Printemps boug003.jp |
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| Night, 1883 boug004.jp |
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| Breakfast in the Garden.jpg Giuseppe de Nittis 1846 - 1884 Barletta, Italy |
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| Allegory of Lust-detai |
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| Execution of the Mata Hari Oct. 15 1917 Fully Clothed.jp Mata Hari Margaretha Geertruida Zelle 1876 - 1917 Leeuwarden |
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| Fernande Barrey Painting by Pablo Picasso.jp Fernande Olivier Amélie Lang 1881 - 1966 Paris, France |
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| The Harem Bath gerome001. Jean-Léon Gérôme 1824 - 1904 Vésoul, France |
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| Pygmalion and Galatea gerome002. Jean-Léon Gérôme 1824 - 1904 Vésoul, France |
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| Old House, 1856 hugo003.jp Victor Hugo 1802 - 1885 Besançon, France |
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| Study of an Eagle, 1855 hugo004.jp Victor Hugo 1802 - 1885 Besançon, France |
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| Nevermore, 1897 img_gaugui Paul Gauguin 1848 - 1903 Paris, France |
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| Odalisque and Slave, 1839 ingres005. Jean-Augus 1780 - 1867 Montauban, France |
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| Hero Finding Leander, c1892 keller001. Ferdinand Keller 1842 - 1922 Karlsruhe, Germany |
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| A Nymph Drinking At A Spring, 1907 keller005. Ferdinand Keller 1842 - 1922 Karlsruhe, Germany |
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| Die Musik; Music I, 1895 klimt005. Gustave Klimt 1862 - 1918 Baumgarten |
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| L ' Indolence. |
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| Love's Labour Lost, 1885 long004.jp Edwin Longsden Long 1829 - 1891 Bath, England |
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| Mata Hari Dance of the Seven Veils.jpg Mata Hari Margaretha Geertruida Zelle 1876 - 1917 Leeuwarden |
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| Mata Hari Ornate Costume.jp Mata Hari Margaretha Geertruida Zelle 1876 - 1917 Leeuwarden |
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| mata Seven Veils 2.jpg Mata Hari Margaretha Geertruida Zelle 1876 - 1917 Leeuwarden |
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| Ornate Egyptian 2.jpg |
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| Pan and Psyche 1872-4.jpg |
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| Seven Veils 3.jpg Mata Hari Margaretha Geertruida Zelle 1876 - 1917 Leeuwarden |
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| Sunset at St. Charles Eragny 1891.jpg Camille Pissarro 1830 - 1903 St. Thomas, Virgin Islands |
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| The beauty and butterfly 1870.jpg Ferdinand Keller 1842 - 1922 Karlsruhe, Germany |
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| The Date Seller.jpg Edwin Longsden Long 1829 - 1891 Bath, England |
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| The Eastern Favorite.j Edwin Longsden Long 1829 - 1891 Bath, England |
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| The Kiss 1907 Gustave Klimt 1862 - 1918 Baumgarten |
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| An Algerian and her Slave, 1862 tissier001 Ange Tissier 1814 - 1876 Paris, France |
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| Venus Jouant avec L'Amour.jp |
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| Water Carriers Of The Ganges weeks003.j Edwin Lord Weeks 1849-1903 Boston, USA |
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| Two Nautch Girls, Sketch weeks005.j Edwin Lord Weeks 1849-1903 Boston, USA |
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| Wheel of Fortune.jp |
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| Safie, One of the Three Ladies of Bagdad, 1900 wontner002 William Clarke Wontner 1857 - 1930 London, England |
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| Egyptian Beauty wontner003 William Clarke Wontner 1857 - 1930 London, England |
*original post 8/4/08
*tallulahs.com
Great collection !!!.... appreciate ur views...u hv a great soul...!!
ReplyDeletewht a vintage art work :)
ReplyDeletegreat vission about the sick disciple of pain
ReplyDeleteinocent and useless sensuality
ReplyDeletenice, voluptuous...
ReplyDeletedesperation...not surrended yet
ReplyDeleteFreedom...
ReplyDeleteJustice...
ReplyDeleteLife...
ReplyDeleteDestiny...
ReplyDeleteLove...
ReplyDeleteDeath...
ReplyDeleteTime...
ReplyDeleteJoy...
ReplyDeleteeducation...
ReplyDeleteknowledge...
ReplyDeletewisedom...
ReplyDeletebeautiful collection.
ReplyDeleteThis one is my favourite.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Ritesh :-)
ReplyDeleteYour perception has always been beyond ordinary sight.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Demian...
why useless?
ReplyDeletemy extreme favorite...
ReplyDeleteThanks, Devine :-)
ReplyDeleteYes... they all are. Thanks :-)
ReplyDeleteand you would wonder why it was entitled: Love's Labour Lost
ReplyDeleteI thank you for sharing your good taste
ReplyDeleteIsaid useless becouse is a painting. Sensuality means not only a sight, but smelling, touching... and so on :-) Is beautiful, anyway
ReplyDeleteOh, I see... you have a point there..
ReplyDeleteSensuality evokes all 5 magic senses...
Pleasure is mine, Gary..
ReplyDeleteI am glad you liked them...
So reminiscent of Claude Monet's art.... and something there of Van Gogh..
ReplyDeleteExactly! At first glance I thought it was by Claude Monet since the piece looked very well as if it painted the effects of light with vibrant colors, rapid brushstrokes to depict sunrise... but then here, it were the tree and sunset as subjects...
ReplyDeleteI love the earth tones. I'm imagining I have a repro of this hung in my living room.
ReplyDeleteI have this in my collection of Gauguin's women...posted in my site when I was still new here in Multiply...last year. I am a Gauguin fan.
ReplyDeleteOh, really? What is intriguing about Gauguin is how he labels his work-- like in this case, he coined it "Nevermore"... that alone sets your mind to thinking beyond what you see outright.
ReplyDeleteIf I am to art-up the walls of my living room, I'd prefer some oil painting like this which lends true fidelity to nature and real life images. Take note of how the human body was depicted here-- finely painted musculature with true muscle maturity, human eyes relating to natural emotions of glee, greed and lust..
ReplyDeletewow dear what a picture it is !!!!
ReplyDeletewhat do u feel after seeing this pic.
its mind blowing
plz send me such kind of article to me
on my personal id...
RAjeev........
It's good you liked this, Rajeev...
ReplyDeleteWhat I feel...?
Ohhh,,,, you couldn't even begin to imagine
how a work of art like this could make me:
feel being far up there in a heavenly garden
unencumbered by clouds pollution and atmosphere
think of ripples of cold stream water
lapping gently
on my barefeet
summer breeze
fanning my naked body
deep euphoria
no abandon
to utopia.
oh dear u really makes me inocent by
ReplyDeletewriting this kind of fentastic sentences..
i really like to see u more deeply with ur
heart ........u r really mind blowing......
oh dear u really makes me inocent by
ReplyDeletewriting this kind of fentastic sentences..
i really like to see u more deeply with ur
heart ........u r really mind blowing......
What's astonishing is the soul-stirring effects
ReplyDeletethese paintings have on the beholder :-)
REALLY NICE ART BEAUTIFUL THANK YOU FOR SHARING.
ReplyDeleteJAMSHED
thanks fr all thos first class painting you have a good taste im my self arts lover i drew few paitings at t bast tell me whare can i by good clasical paintings that looks like original by the way yr name sound arabic which country u from u can amaill me on yaqobyaqob@windowslive.com pls thanks
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome, Yaqob.
ReplyDeleteIt's good to know you
also love these kind of paintings... :-)
wow ^^ YOUR PAGE IS SO BEAUTYFUL. WONDER FULL. Best Wishes Cham
ReplyDeleteThank you, Cham.
ReplyDeletePeople like you inspire me a lot. :-)
lovely
ReplyDeletethere is nothing more pure and virginal than the shimmer of beauty in youth...
ReplyDeleteits a beautifull collection
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot, Tinus... :-)
ReplyDeletethanks again fr yr new colectiom i didnt here from u u for some time i hope yr happy and shining best regards
ReplyDeleteyou're welcome...
ReplyDeleteYes, there had been
days when there were
no inputs from me--
due to physical ailments.
Thanks for viewing, Yaqob.
I didnt know that they showed breasts back then.
ReplyDeleteIn the time of the Renaissance,
ReplyDeletepainters like Michaelangelo
appreciate and praise
nude artistic paintings,
simply because they
focused on art and content
and not on what the painting
was trying to implicate.
It was to show the beauty of
the form, especially of
the female body.
A common example of a
famous painting showing nudity
is The Birth of Venus by Botticelli.
It showed Venus in nude,
yet its subject doesn't focus
on the nude perspective but on Venus’ birth.
Szép - beautiful -bona - schön - etc..etc..
ReplyDeleteIt is truly beautiful.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite of them all.
I can see why. Beautiful does not do it justice
ReplyDeleteI have had the pleasure of seeing this in all its glory when visiting Vienna some years ago,truly wonderous
ReplyDeleteMy personal fave from this album. Thanks
ReplyDeleteIncredible, my cerebellum thanks you!
ReplyDeletethis could have been painted today, plus ca change...
ReplyDeleteReally? WOW...
ReplyDeleteGustav Klimt is a great
favorite of mine...
such expressionism
and symbolism in his art,
add to that that blasting
feel of sensuality...
The Kiss is a fascinating
icon of the loss of self
that lovers experience.
Only the faces and hands
of this couple are visible;
all the rest is great swirl of gold, studded with colored rectangles
as if to express visually the emotional and physical explosion
of erotic love.
Footnote:
The Kiss represents:
* That the shared gold shrouding and indeterminate background evokes the timelessness and union of selves that a kiss can engender.
* That it represents how bright, beautiful, and golden everything is when you first kiss someone.
* That the man is lost in the kiss (faceless and unidentifiable) while the woman is turning her head away and is aloof from the kiss.
* That the female is succumbing to the male and experiencing a moment of sexual ecstasy.
* That is a symbolic representation of the kiss of Apollo to Daphne at the moment she is transforming into a laurel tree (Ovid, The Metamorphosis).
* The Kiss exemplifies a loss of self, reconciliation and unity that only lovers experience.
* The couple stimulates opposing energies contributing to the connection. The man displays knowledge, black and white contrast, and binary information,
as his energy towards the woman.
The woman balances this by
using her femininity, warmth, and decorous flowers as her energy towards the man.
The woman is rooted in the ground, symbolizing her connection to "Mother Nature," which means
its only normal that she connects as the image of flowers.
Underneath the man pictures of rabbits are visible and are benefiting from Mother Nature's grass.
This symbolism of balanced connection between the two parts is the essence of what love means.
Some think that Klimt and his beloved companion Emilie Flöge modeled for the masterpiece...
Such soulful, melancholic eyes...
ReplyDeleteCould this be a longing
unfulfilled?
You're welcome.
ReplyDeleteTwo exotic professional
dancing girls of India...
Yes...
ReplyDeleteI love the details,
the vivid true colors,
the captured expression
on the subject's face...
I will be visiting there soon, I am filled with excitement to be heading to the Himalayas and finding its source, I guarantee the above scene will still be taking place as it has done throughout time
ReplyDeleteNo one then,
ReplyDeletecould be half as blessed
as you, D, for having this
opportunity to explore
and understand.
Great adventure that'll be!
its the greatness of the artist to make a nude picture beautiful and not vulgur
ReplyDeleteeven today she is not dead... her spirits r alive
ReplyDeleteand its soo true to its subject
ReplyDeleteExcellent, Better. Thank you for sharing.
ReplyDelete~Manfred
Thank you, too,
Deletefor viewing
and commenting. M.
It's all a pleasure for me
to have the opportunity
to share with you
and with anyone
who might be
interested out there...