Saturday, June 25, 2011

Summertime...

Dorothea Sharpe - Afternoon walk

Madame Monet and her son

Frank Benson - Summer
 
 Albert Edelfelt - Boys playing at the beach

Peder Severin Krøyer - Summer night at Skagen

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Giovanni Boldini








a couple of other blogs
The Gold Book d'Odette
Box and Line
Onok-art

A couple of other paintings I think about when seeing this:

Albert Edelfelt and Finnish singer Aino Achté

Sargent and Madame X - that evening gown is very daring...

and Renoir's Umbrellas

All three painters are also my favorites as you can guess :-D

Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian Symbolist painter




Kiss and Claudia Veja's wonderful photo inspired by it



















Wednesday, June 1, 2011

John Anster Fitzgerald

John Anster Christian Fitzgerald (1819? – 1906) was a Victorian era fairy painter and portrait artist. He was nicknamed "Fairy Fitzgerald" for his main genre. Many of his fairy paintings are dark and contain images of ghouls, demons, and references to drug use; his work has been compared to the surreal nightmare-scapes of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Brueghel.





Then two sleeping women by Fitzgerald: first one is having pleasant dreams, the next one nightmares