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(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...“Portrait of a Boy” carries the weight of character more than anything else. Besides, the choice of medium by Swynnerton is simply breathtaking. If I were to imagine someone painting a subject like this, watercolor, pastel and ink would be the safest guesses. However, Swynnerton’s subject is all about strength of character. She loved immortalizing young boys, for whom she might have been unable to recollect identities. It is clear that the little boy’s posture is impressive, and there is all the innocence in his good-natured face, which also carries an element of disciplining history. Swynnerton belonged in the times of conservative ideologies, conflicting with leftist ideals of feminism, socialism and equal pay for women. It was a noble thing to be on that side, […]
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...Made in 1969, the three studies of Lucian Freud were made by Francis Bacon and is the most expensive painting of all time sold at an auction by November 2013. The price tag without adjusting the inflation is around $142.4 million. Francis Bacon was a figurative painter and painted many of his paintings in such triptych style. According to his statement he always saw images in series. And thus, he painted those series in triptych styles. The current one has become his most famous painting after the auction. It depicts his friend Lucian Freud sitting in three different positions in an imaginary background and a linear box. The figure seems to be deformed or distorted and the face of the person has gone to the […]
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...William Frost, an English painter from Victorian era, has depicted the mythological figure of Terpischore in the current portrayal. In Greek mythology, Terpischore is one of the nine Muses who are the goddesses of literation, science and arts with different departments allocated to each of them. Terpischore possess the knowledge of dance and dramatic chorus. Even the meaning of her name is “delight in dancing” and her emblem is a lyre. William Frost has represented the same figure in a different angle of sensuality and love in this oil-on-paper painting. The heart-shaped emblem which she seems to playing with her fingers is the symbol of the intimacy she desires to have. The shy face with downward eyes consist the feminine demure. It is very poetic […]
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...Natural disasters are never welcomed in human society. They are the bringer of death, catastrophic deaths which puts havoc in the flourishing, prospering societies. They play more of a villainous role. On the other hand, every natural disaster is grand show. A show which once seen can never be forgotten throughout the entire life. A scene which gets hardwired in the human brain, among the neurons that it can’t be undone, especially if it is volcanic eruption. Such volcanic eruptions are the event to behold for a long time. They doesn’t let the viewer even blink their eyes and mesmerizes them to its grand presence, power and makes them feel so tiny and defenseless, that any human being can’t get his head out of the […]
