Going through my files today, I realized I have an absolutely HUGE collection of images. Photos, paintings, architecture, days gone by, trashy magazine covers, you name it, I have it and it is just sitting there. So, as of today I will endeavour to post ONE a day for your pleasure.
Macabre, satanic, angelic, natural photography, fine art, you will not know what to expect from day to day any more than I will until I open the folders that day.
THE MUSIC LESSON by FREDERICK LEIGHTON
Date: 1877
Media: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 104 x 101cm
Location: Guild Hall Art Gallery
Picture credit: The Bridgeman Art Library
Interpretation:
An older woman helps a girl to play a guitar, possibly of Syrian origin. Leighton developed a deep interest in Eastern art and architecture after his first trip to Algeria in 1857, and here we can see him introducing this into his art. The two figures are surrounded by and dressed in souvenirs from Damascus. The architectural setting for the painting shares an affinity with George Aitchinson's contemporary designs for the Arab Hall at Leighton House, although it has also been linked with the sixteenth century mosque of Suleiman Pasha at Damascus.
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY ART SCAM
http://snippits-and-slappits.blogspot.com/2010/04/twentieth-century-art-scam.html
SNIPPITS AND SNAPPITS: THE PLOT AGAINST ART
http://snippits-and-slappits.blogspot.com/2010/09/plot-against-art.html
http://snippits-and-slappits.blogspot.com/2010/09/plot-against-art.html
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY ART SCAM
http://snippits-and-slappits.blogspot.com/2010/04/twentieth-century-art-scam.html
Hey Noor,...What wonderful things, truly, a renaissance is what we will need when these demons we wrestle are finally put to the sword. Leighton is a personal favourite of the Pre-Raphaelites: 'Flaming June' reminds me of my first wife, dozing after a champagne breakfast.
ReplyDeleteMy lady of the dawn, you salve the raw nerve, thank you.
veritas
Hmmm did you ever read the piece I posted about the death of good art? Lemme find the link for you and you will see how the Jews stole art from us too. Of course then the same can be applied to REAL music, the ephemeral sounds of enlightening soul expanding
ReplyDeletemusic.
SNIPPITS AND SNAPPITS: THE PLOT AGAINST ART
http://snippits-and-slappits.blogspot.com/2010/09/plot-against-art.html
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY ART SCAM
http://snippits-and-slappits.blogspot.com/2010/04/twentieth-century-art-scam.html
You won't look at art the same after reading these, I guarantee you.
Hey Noor,...I am sure I have seen both these Posts and have commented at both(?), in fact the picture from Sasha Darkmoon's, "The Plot against Art - 10" I used as a Background until only recently: Riki R. Nelson, 'Girl in a Box, Girl in Cherry Silk', from the Saatchi Gallery, London... Fabulous.
ReplyDeleteHow bizarre.
veritas