'The highest pitch of refined emotion': The tragic romance hidden in a 19th-Century painting. "Hellelil and Hildebrand, The Meeting on the Turret Stairs"
More photos and information about this fascinating #painting: www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
Kitagawa Utamaro, Utamakura (Poem of the Pillow) 1788. Lovers in private second floor room of tea-house. Shunga, woodblock print.
Kitagawa Utamaro : Utamakura (Poem of the Pillow) 1788
Lovers in private second floor room of tea-house
Shunga, woodblock print
#10 of 12 printed folding album illustrations
British Museum, London, England
#art #Shunga #Ukiyoe #KitagawaUtamaro #Japan #floatingworlds #EdoPeriod #woodblock #print
Illustration by H.J. Ford from The Green Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, New York, 1906. #artsky #booksky
“An artist never works under ideal conditions,” says Andrei Tarkovsky. "The artist exists because the world is not perfect... Art is born out of an ill-designed world.”
www.openculture.com/2016/06/andr...
An oil painting of Princess Lirazel from, "The King of Elfland's Daughter."
I’m so excited to finally share this news with you! Here’s the very first painting I’ve created for The King of Elfland’s Daughter. This beautiful edition book will be published by the @ConversationTreePress
"Princess Lirazel" 18x24 inches, oils on copper panel
#TheKingOfElflandsDaughter
A mythological oil painting of Hades and Persephone in an intimate pose, surrounded by a landscape that shifts to blooming spring florals, visually capturing the turning of the seasons.
Happy Valentine’s Day 🤍
Hades and Persephone prints have finally been restocked! My interpretation of the graceful turning of the seasons...winter’s stillness melting into the promise of spring.
#HadesAndPersephone #GreekMythology #MythologyArt #Persephone #Hades #MythologicalArt #SpringGoddess
The Beautiful Elaine, Toby Edward Rosenthal 1917
The Beautiful Elaine - Toby Edward Rosenthal 1917
Current location: Art Institute of Chicago
#art #painting #LadyOfShalott #AlfredTennyson #TobyEdwardRosenthal
