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Feb 18 2011
Demon by Mikhail Vrubel, 1890
Paintings (Reproductions) / Russian / Symbolist - 12 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Demon” by Mikhail Vrubel of 1890. This wonderful Symbolist creation shows a masterful depiction of the simultaneous despair and pride traditional in the psyche of demons. Vrubel had always attempted to portray Christ figures and never satisfied himself. Perhaps in reaction to these failures to his own standards, Vrubel concentrated on works of showing demons. The original size of this beautiful work is 213.8 cm by 116.5 cm. Vrubel was thirty-four years old when he painted this and went blind four years before his death in 1910. This masterpiece is in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Jan 22 2011
Die Erscheinung by Gustave Moreau, 1875
French / Inspirational prints / Paintings (Reproductions) / Symbolist - 1 year ago - troycapc
This a reproduction of Gustave Moreau’s "Die Erscheinung" or "L’apparition" of 1875. The title refers to the apparition of the head of John the Baptist to Salome, the daughter of Herodias, whose famous dance was the occasion for the execution of the Baptist by Herod Antipas. Moreau was one of the leading French Symbolists. He exhibited in the Salon of 1853 when he was twenty-seven years old and his first truly Symbolist painting was the Oedipus of 1864. He became a professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1891 and died on April 18, 1898. His workshop became the Musee national Gustave Moreau in 1905. This masterpiece is on display there.
Dec 3 2010
Frenzy of Exultations by Wladyslaw Podkowinski, 1893
Academician / Paintings (Reproductions) / Russian / Symbolist - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of Wladyslaw Podkowinski ‘s Symbolist masterpiece “Frenzy of Exultations” of 1893. It is the premier work of Polish Symbolism prior to the re-establishment of the nation in 1918. The artist began the work in Paris in 1889 while in the throws of an intense romance. Podkowinski utilized the Academic technique of increasingly realistic sketches. The final version was completed while the artist was seriously ill and was displayed in Warsaw n March 18, 1894. The picture was sensationally greeted by the public and was very popular. However Podkowinski attacked the painting which ended the exhibition. AFter the artist’s death nine months later, the painting was restored and it toured Krakow, Moscow and St. Petersburg. In 1904 it was given to the National Museum in Krakow.
Aug 31 2010
Isle of the Dead by Arnold Brocklin, 1880
Academician / Greco-Roman / Inspirational prints / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) / Symbolist - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of Arnold Brocklin’s masterpiece “Isle of the Dead” of 1880. It resides in the Kunstmuseum in Basel, Switzerland. Brocklin was a Swiss Symbolist artist who died in 1901 at the age of 74 years. He was a leading light of his age and this image is typical of his treatment of mythological scenes. This particular work was inspired by the English cemetery in Florence, Italy.
Aug 7 2010
Neptune’s Horses by Walter Crane of 1892
British / Greco-Roman / Paintings (Reproductions) / Symbolist - 1 year ago - troycapc
Neptune’s Horses was painted in 1892 by Walter Crane, at the height of the Symbolist Movement. Crane faithfully captures the god of the sea roaring onto the coast with his horses which are enmeshed in the waves that they mythologically create and interpenetrate.
Jul 28 2010
Phaeton by Odilon Redon of ca. 1905
French / Greco-Roman / Paintings (Reproductions) / Symbolist - 1 year ago - troycapc
This modern Symbolist masterpiece was created by Odilon Redon in the early years of the twentieth century. It depicts the Greek mythological figure Phaeton, the son of Apollo, who was allowed to drive his father’s chariot through the heavens. The boy could not control the divine steeds and eventually was tossed from the chariot and plunged to his death. Redon did not achieve any degree of fame until 1884 when he was forty-four years old. He began to favor pastels and oils in the 1890’s until his death in 1916.
Jun 22 2010
Chariot of Apollo, Odilon Redon, 1909
French / Paintings (Reproductions) / Symbolist - 1 year ago - troycapc
This modern Symbolist masterpiece was created by Odilon Redon in about 1909. It depicts the Greek God of the Sun, Phoebus Apollo, as he personifies the sun in its daily chariot ride across the heavens. Redon did not achieve any degree of fame until 1884 when he was forty-four years old. He began to favor pastels and oils in the 1890’s until his death in 1916.
Jan 26 2010
Guardian of Paradise by Franz von Stuck, 1889
Paintings (Reproductions) / Von Stuck - 2 years ago - troycapc
From the King James Version of the Old Testament Book of Genesis:
“And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever: Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubim and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.”
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In this, his first renowned painting, Von Stuck portrays the “Guardian of Paradise” who bears the flaming sword described in the above biblical passage. Von Stuck ignored the Ezekiel tradition: portraying a cherub as having four faces (lion, ox, eagle, man), four wings, the hands of a human and the feet of an ox. Instead he maintains the Symbolist reliance on dream images and imagination to portray a sexually ambivalent yet intriguingly powerful figure guarding the garden. The original is in the Museum Villa Stuck in Munich.
The Artist:
Franz von Stuck began attending the Munich Academy in 1881 at the age of eighteen, having been born the son of a miller in the Bavarian countryside. Leaving the academy four years later, he attracted attention with his cartoons in Fliegende Blatter, a humorously illustrated German weekly. He exhibited his first paintings in 1889 at the Munich Glass Palace and won a gold medal for this piece, Guardian of Paradise.
In 1893 he was one of the founders of the Munich Secession, a group of Munich artists who protested against the predominant artist association. They issued their catalog on July 15 and their secession was followed by the secession of artists in Vienna, Berlin and other cities. Von Stuck gained further fame with his first sculpture, Athlete, and earned a gold medal for painting in Chicago. He was appointed to a royal professorship and gained yet more recognition with his most famous painting, The Sin, in 1894. Three years later he married an American widow and began to build the “Villa Stuck.” The furniture he designed for this house and studio later won a Gold Medal at the 1900 Paris World Exposition. He was ennobled in 1905 and continued to win honors and provide leadership as a professor at the Munich Academy until his death in 1928.
Symbolism:
Guardian of Paradise is a brilliant example of the Symbolist movement. Symbolism, as applied to the visual arts, is related to the literary movement of the same name, which began in the mid-nineteenth century and was influenced by the works of Edgar Allen Poe. In the visual arts, it began as a more esoteric and lurid outgrowth of Romanticism. Symbolists reacted against naturalism and realism, which they thought devalued spirituality, imagination and dreams. They continued the mystical tendencies of some of the Romantics such as Caspar David Friedrich and John Henry Fuseli, concentrating on religious, philosophical and mythical subjects. They portrayed these subjects in paintings that utilized personal and often ambiguous symbols, frequently borrowing from dream imagery.
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