Landscape & Technics/ Paysages et technique : Constable 1802-1819…

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Born: 11 June 1776; Suffolk, United Kingdom

Died: 31 March 1837; London, United Kingdom

Active years: 1800 – 1837

Field: painting

Nationality: British

Art Movement: Romanticism

School or Group: English school

Genre: landscape

Series: Scene on a River

John Constable (11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home—now known as “Constable Country”—which he invested with an intensity of affection. “I should paint my own places best”, he wrote to his friend John Fisher in 1821, “painting is but another word for feeling”.^[2]

His most famous paintings include Dedham Vale of 1802 and The Hay Wain of 1821. Although his paintings are now among the most popular and valuable in British art, he was never financially successful and did not become a member of the establishment until he was elected to the Royal Academy at the age of 52. He sold more paintings in France than in his native England.

Henry Scott Tuke

 

 

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ELTON JOHN:

“Freddie Mercury had a passion for beautiful drawings and paintings as well. I mean, even when he was dying, at his house, I used to go round there and sit well between… [it was] really hard because he was really ill. But he just loved having his auction catalogues round there.

“And things would be arriving, and he’d say: ’Darling, I’ve just bought this!’, and I said like ‘Why are you doing this?’ and he said‘Because I love it.’

“The year that he died, at Christmas, someone gave me this parcel wrapped in a beautiful pilowcase and inside was a Henry Scott Tuke watercolour and it said:

Dear SharonThought you’d love this! Melina X

- ‘cos that was our names, and I was… it was one of the most touching things anyone’s ever done for me – the fact that he thought of me as he was dying and bought this painting because he knew that I loved Henry Scott Tuke. I’ve still got the pillowcase next to my bed and my Henry Scott Tuke’s on an easel that he gave me. It’s fantastic. What a great gift and what a beautiful thought.”

50 Monet 65 Gauguin

The rocky cliffs of Étretat by Monet.

The rocky cliffs of Étretat by Geo

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Why not painting some Monet & Gauguin I like…

The-white-horse-1898

The White Horse by Geo

The village

 by Geo sept 2011

A-man-with-axe-1891 by Gauguin

Pacific Ocean by Geo

Models

Forest by Geo sept 2011

Fontainebleau-forest by Monet

Forest models

Continue with Artists in D…

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My Artists in G

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Le mystérieux adolescent de Pablo Picasso

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Meneur de cheval nu. 1906.

Today, two days after drawing / painting The horse leader is big now… I found this very interesting essay about the gay relationship between Max Jacob and Picasso. It is rather a trip in the struggling sexuality of the painter that proposes Brett Masters in his essay.//

Saltimbanques la coiffure, la conversation et le cavalier,1905

Aujourd’hui, deux jours après avoir dessiné/peint Le meneur de cheval de Picasso a grandi… j’ai trouvé un essai très intéressant qui décrit la période de relation homosexuelle entre le poète et le peintre, l’un ouvertement homo, l’autre absolument indéfinissable… C’est plutôt un voyage dans la sexualité tourmentée de Picasso que nous convie l’auteur de cet essai : Brett Masters…

Ensuite dans les années vingt, une petite histoire d’un tableau oublié dans un coin La lecture de la lettre. Emblématique du retour de Picasso vers des formes plus classiques à un moment où Picasso atteignait les sommets du succès, ne peut-on pas voir aussi dans ce tableau un retour nostalgique vers la période Max Jacob?

Behind ‘Boy With a Pipe’

Brett Masters, Princeton Class of 2008
Winner of the Quin Morton Essay Prize

In May 2004, Sotheby’s of New York sold Pablo Picasso’s Boy with a Pipe (1905) to an anonymous private collector for $104 million, making it the most valuable painting ever sold. Most art critics attributed the painting’s value not to its peculiarities, but to a prime auction market and an appreciation of the Picasso brand in recent years (Baker E1). Yet Boy with a Pipe is undeniably provocative, raising questions both about Picasso’s sexuality and his relationships with children.

Homme, femme et enfant dans une barque,1902

Je fais une petite traduction à-la-va-vite pour tous ceux qui ne comprennent rien à l’anglais..

En mai 2004 ce tableau Garçon avec une pipe 1905 a été vendu à un collectionneur anonyme pour 75 million d’euro, devenant la peinture vendue la plus chère au monde. Mais ce n’est que la preuve des spéculations autour de la valeur sur le marché de l’art de Picasso… Pourtant ce Garçon avec une pipe est indéniablement provocateur et fait naître bien des questions sur la sexualité de Picasso et ses rapports possibles avec un jeune adolescent…

Castor/ Plein feu sur Giorgio De Chirico

 

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In Greek mythology Dioscures story is about two twins: Castor and Pollux

Castor is a famous strong horse leader he is very talented, whereas Pollux is a legendary soldier, strong too glorious and victorious …

Today I crossed one of my favourite masterpiece of Giorgio De Chirico:

Palfreniere-con-due-cavali-1937

Giorgio De Chirico

Giorgio de Chirico (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒɔrdʒo deˈkiːriko]; July 10, 1888 – November 20, 1978) was a pre-Surrealist and then Surrealist Italian painter born in Volos,Greece, to a Genovese mother and a Sicilian father.^[1] He founded the scuola metafisica art movement. His surname is traditionally written De Chirico (capitalized De)when it stands alone.

Contents 1 Life and works 2 Legacy 3 Selected works 4 Works about 5 References 6 External links

Life and works

Love Song 1914

“Dans la mythologie grecque, l’histoire des Dioscures est celle de jumeaux, plus connus sous les noms de Castor et de Pollux. Ils ne se séparent jamais, en aucune circonstance, le premier étant célèbre comme soldat et dompteur de chevaux sauvages, le second comme le meilleur lutteur de tous les temps.”

Aujourd’hui je me suis penché sur une oeuvre de Chirico qui est une de mes préférées. Chirico n’a pas peint souvent la mer et cela rend ce tableau plus intéressant encore… Castor est peint à côté de deux chevaux. L’un d’eux sans doute attendant l’arrivée de Pollux le frère jumeaux inséparable si souvent peint par De Chirico… J’ai voulu aller plus loin en représentant Polux se caressant en attendant Castor ou plutôt le contraire …

Castor by Geo 5 Sept. 2011

J’ai puisé dans les modèles une posture et un garçon qui allait bien avec ce tableau: Dano Sulik…