Friday, November 28, 2014

De edelachtbare John Collier




John Collier (. Eng John Maler Collier) (27 januari 1850-11 April 1934) - Engels schilder, een van de vertegenwoordigers prerafaelitizma.

Collier kwam uit een succesvolle familie. Zijn grootvader, John Collier, was een grote bourgeois, een Quaker en een lid van het parlement. Zijn vader, Sir Robert Perry Collier, een advocaat en lid van het Parlement voor vele jaren was de procureur-generaal en de rechter van de Privy Council, ontving hij de titel van Eerste Lord Monksvell. De oudere broer van John Collier, de tweede Heer Monksvell was onderminister van Buitenlandse Zaken van het Ministerie van Oorlog en voorzitter van de London County Council.

Johannes zelf was een lid van de Royal Society of British Artists. Hij studeerde schilderkunst aan de Academie van München, waar hij 14 april 1875 op de leeftijd van 25 jaar.

Zijn aristocratische afkomst stond hem toe om een voet aan de grond te krijgen in een aantal belangrijke kunstenaars van die tijd, zoals Lawrence Alma-Tadema en John Everett Millais, werd hij een populaire portretschilder tijdens het Victoriaanse tijdperk en de tijd van koning Edward VII.


Het bereik van de schilderijen Collier is zeer breed. Hij schilderde vele prominente figuren van zijn tijd. In 1893, bijvoorbeeld, zijn model werd bisschop van Shrewsbury (Sir Lovelace Stamere); Sir John Lubbock; Sir Edward Inglefield augustus (admiraal en pool-onderzoeker), etc.

Hij creëerde ook werken op mythische thema's. Collier bekend om zijn dramatische, theatrale stijl schilderijen op klassieke thema's. Collier werd beroemd vanwege het gebruik in de ware traditie van romantische beelden van mooie vrouwen uit legenden, mythen, literatuur en geschiedenis als het belangrijkste thema voor zijn schilderijen.
Zijn schilderijen, uitgevoerd in perfecte academische stijl, Collier regelmatig vertegenwoordigd op de Koninklijke Academie tentoonstelling.
Hij stierf in de 11 april 1934 in Hempstead in de leeftijd van vierentachtig jaar.



vooravond


Doornroosje











Maids van Farao, 1883


lilith


John Collier (1850 - 1934)

Sunday, November 23, 2014

Frederick Childe Hassam



Frederick Childe Hassam (October 17, 1859, Dorchester, Massachusetts - August 27, 1935, Long Island, New York) - American Impressionist painter.
Already in his youth was an enthusiastic painter and watercolorist. In 1877, dropped out of school, the first time he worked woodcuts, making graphic illustrations for magazines such as The Century Magazine, Harper's Weekly and Scribner's Monthly. In 1878 he began attending evening classes at the Boston Art Club and the Lowell Institute. During this period he wrote his first landscapes in a naturalistic style, mostly views of Boston and its environs. In 1882 his first personal exhibition Gassama on which he first sold his paintings.

In the summer of 1883 for the first time to go to Europe, visited Italy, France, Holland, England and Spain; a great influence on him had a watercolor W. Turner. In 1884, after returning home, set in Boston, 67 made it to Europe watercolors. In the same year he married Kathleen Maude Doane (1862-1946).

In 1886, visited the exhibition of French impressionists and in the same year he went to Paris, where he lived for three years; studied at the Académie Julian. At this time, the source of his income is to illustrate the unreleased books in Boston, as well as paintings on American auctions. In 1887, first exhibited his paintings at the Paris Salon. He participated in the World Exhibition in 1889, which won the bronze medal. In the same year went to New York. In 1909, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art bought one of his paintings.

In 1897 joined the American Society of Artists, and together with John and Julian Weir Tvahtmanom created a group of American artists of the Ten (Ten (The Ten)). Becomes the leading representatives of American Impressionism. Great success enjoyed his cityscapes (Washington Square, Fifth Avenue, Gloucester, and others.). Made several trips to the US and Europe.
In 1919 he settled in East Gempton on Long Island in New York City, where he lived the rest of his life.

Damsel



improvisation



Poppies. Island Shoal (1891)






Thursday, November 20, 2014

Jan Steen - Dutch painter.



Jan Steen Havikzoon
(Jan Stan niderl. Jan Havickszoon Steen;
approx. 1626, Leiden - until February 3, 1679, Leiden)

Jan Steen is probably the most cheerful and witty Dutch painters of the 17th century and the most famous artist, genre painter, thanks humorous scenes of everyday life in his paintings, filled with warm cordiality, kindness and good-natured irony, in which the artist considers life as a vast comedy of manners. In Jan Steen had no students reported (except Richard Brekenberga), but the work of the artist is widely imitated by many Dutch painters during the life of the master. The exact date of the death of Jan Steen (as well as the cause of death) is not installed, but it is known that the artist was buried February 3, 1679 in the family grave in the outskirts of Leiden Piterskerke.

Girl with oysters
1658-1660, Mauritshuis, The Hague




Portrait of Margaret van Bernardino Reysfelt
1660. Mauritshuis, The Hague.


Self-Portrait with a lute. 3rd quarter of the XVII century.
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. Madrid


Astvard baker and his wife Katharina
1658, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam


Revelers, 1660
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg


WC Women, 1660
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam


Merry Company in 1660


This is for life. 1661.
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Rotterdam



Patient and doctor in 1660


Rhetoric in the window
1662-1665


schoolteacher
1663


Celebrating the christening
1664


during life
1665-1667


Family Holiday
1679


Players in backgammon
1667


Cat's dancing
1679. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam


Parrot Cage
1670


Wikipedia

Thursday, November 13, 2014

With Apple Spas friends!




On the Feast! On the Feast!
By autumn affair cook stocks.
In white hallow fruit
To the winter knows no need.
Ripe apple in faith eat,
And certainly dozhdeshsya Wonderland!


Pie bake, friends regaled.
Summer autumn leaves met!





As with the dew of the morning,
Pluck the apple in the garden,
That feeling is
That as a child I lived again,
Mist, grass, fields, fences,
And endlessly torn away,
My Russian expanses,
Love of mother and sadness.
Grief over the summer that was extinguished,
Love the fact that so cute
Let saved that apple is called,
Come to us at the same time!




Ruddy apples were filled on a branch,
Sweet and spicy, red and white,
The day came when it's time to enjoy the juice,
In the morning with dew pluck from the tree is high,
Forbidden Fruit, sweet fruit - apples, Ranetki,
Fun, enjoy yourself people, apple and saved goes!