@Olga - I'm sorry! I thought it was a self-portrait! There's me getting ahead of myself again.
@prendrelemick - Crikey, that was fast! I had hoped this one would keep people occupied for a while... How did you know?
@Olga - I'm sorry! I thought it was a self-portrait! There's me getting ahead of myself again.
@prendrelemick - Crikey, that was fast! I had hoped this one would keep people occupied for a while... How did you know?
"I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance. And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn: he was the spirit of gravity- through him all things fall. Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we slay. Come, let us slay the spirit of gravity!" - Nietzsche
This mystery artist was one of the greatest Russian landscape 'plain-air' painters. Master of 'mood landscape' he worked in genre symbolism and modernist style principles.
Here are two of his works, I hope it helps:
"Where love is there God is also".
Leo Tolstoy
No problem, Pushkin did some drawings but he never painted, as far as I know, he was talented in other area.Originally Posted by Lokasenna
Last edited by Olga4real; 08-10-2010 at 01:04 PM.
"Where love is there God is also".
Leo Tolstoy
The power of Google.
(and the big red "British Library" sticker in the corner)
I know the artist, who also did one of my all time favourites-
But I cant find the first picture anywhere.
Isaac Levitan:In the Vicinity of Bordiguera, in the North of Italy.
That is what threw me, I could see that it wasn't in Russia but I didn't know Levitan had been outside of Russia.
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
The Huguenot by Sir John Everett Millais
Now is this turning into a nationalist game with Olga and her Russians, Brian and the English, and me with the Americans? So perhaps I should seek out some obscure Minimalist Conceptualist?
Beware of the man with just one book. -Ovid
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.- Mark Twain
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A few more by our mystery artist:
Our mystery artist is clearly a top-notch "draftsman".
Last edited by stlukesguild; 08-11-2010 at 11:47 AM.
Beware of the man with just one book. -Ovid
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.- Mark Twain
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I dont know the artist, but I'd like to live in that house.
OK... here's a view of our artist in the studio:
The painter of all these lovely female nudes is not a guy!
Hmmmmm.....
Beware of the man with just one book. -Ovid
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.- Mark Twain
My Blog: Of Delicious Recoil
http://stlukesguild.tumblr.com/
OK... here's a view of our artist in the studio:
The painter of all these lovely female nudes is not a guy!
Hmmmmm.....
Wow! I would never have thought it. I was beginning to think it might be Hugh Heffner.
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
Now come on, Brian... Yeats knew what he was talking about when he suggested that the only two subjects worthy of serious contemplation were sex and death. Certainly they make up the lion's share of art history. Was there a subject beside the nude that shows up more in Michelangelo, Titian, Tintoretto, Rubens, Ingres, Renoir, Degas, Bonnard, Picasso, Matisse, etc...?
Returning to our mystery artist... she is a master draftswoman whose work focuses almost exclusively upon the female nude. Her paintings are all made from life. She employs natural poses drawn from everyday life... from intimate or introspective moments when women are alone (without men). She has mastered a handling of flesh tone that suggest a certain translucency... and an inner glow that is greatly indebted to Rubens. Our artist was born in Paris and continues to live, work, and exhibit in France.
Beware of the man with just one book. -Ovid
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.- Mark Twain
My Blog: Of Delicious Recoil
http://stlukesguild.tumblr.com/
The artist is Francine Van Hove, and the breakfast scene with the baguettes is called, er, Le petit déjeuner aux baguettes.
I'm off to France for a while, and I shan't be around to participate - so I'll hand the initiative back to stlukesguild.
Last edited by MarkBastable; 08-12-2010 at 08:57 PM.
Not hunting down Francine's studio, now, are we?
OK... I'll try to find something equally... tantalizing.
Last edited by stlukesguild; 08-12-2010 at 10:48 PM.
Beware of the man with just one book. -Ovid
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.- Mark Twain
My Blog: Of Delicious Recoil
http://stlukesguild.tumblr.com/
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