Naomi
01-20-2008, 07:30 PM
There was a thread a while back that got deleted on accident and I am going to start it again here because I really enjoyed it....
Don't hotlink, you can find free hosting at la.gg (http://www.la.gg) so you don't have to use up bandwidth here. Try to add some explanation to your image and why i t evokes feelings in you, don't be boring.
"His name was stricken from most history texts and when included it was only to blindly, degrade and disparage him and his work. Yet, as we shall see, it was he who single handedly opened the French academies to women, and it was he who was arguably the greatest painter of the human figure in all of art history. His figures come to life like no previous artist has ever before or ever since achieved. He wasn’t just the best ever at painting human anatomy, more importantly he captured the tender and subtlest nuances of personality and mood. Bouguereau caught the very souls and spirits of his subjects much like Rembrandt. Rembrandt is said to have captured the soul of age. Bouguereau captured the soul of youth."
- Damien Bartoli
This painting I first found in a tiny curio and bead shop in Sandpoint Idaho when I was fourteen, I bought it as a postcard and felt inextricably attracted to it. I didn't take note of the artist until I was in my twenties when I discovered that one of my recently favorite painters had also done this painting. That Bouguereau was responsible (indirectly) for allowing me to study french academic art makes the work even more respectable to me. Bouguereau is my favorite old master hands down, even overriding my previous fascination with Waterhouse.
http://la.gg/upl/youngpriestess.jpg
The following I relate to most of all, really kind of an unpopular painting and hard to find copies of but I love it and relate even more completely to it as I grow older. I'm pretty sure it's Waterhouse but not sure....
http://la.gg/upl/delphi.jpg
This is another one I found much later, though I didn't get a chance to view it for extended periods until I was about 17 - I always return to this one as an emblem of what sort of dangerous magick one can get into and to be careful not to use the power of the divine feminine carelessly, even if you can, you sometimes should not. It is my belief that the goddess is capable of crushing the entire universe at any moment if that was possible, incited to do so by the absolute itself as a tool of this terrible sort of apocalypse scenario - the universe becoming sick of itself - humans are always at least slightly aware of this and it emerges as all sorts of paranoia about women and god in general...
This is "The Beguiling of Merlin" by Sir Edward Burne-Jones
http://la.gg/upl/burne-jones-thebeguilingofm.jpg
Giger was also a huge influence on me. I didn't discover Giger until I was 16 down in Seattle in a poster shop somewhere in the University district. The internet wasn't very widespread then, and modems were funky so I only got glimpses of it here and there when I was out exploring, not like today where we have entire museums and catalogues at our fingertips.
http://la.gg/upl/Giger.gif
Anyways I get a lot of requests about who I am or how to understand me. I think if you get these four paintings you'll have a good idea of who I am...both positive and negative
Don't hotlink, you can find free hosting at la.gg (http://www.la.gg) so you don't have to use up bandwidth here. Try to add some explanation to your image and why i t evokes feelings in you, don't be boring.
"His name was stricken from most history texts and when included it was only to blindly, degrade and disparage him and his work. Yet, as we shall see, it was he who single handedly opened the French academies to women, and it was he who was arguably the greatest painter of the human figure in all of art history. His figures come to life like no previous artist has ever before or ever since achieved. He wasn’t just the best ever at painting human anatomy, more importantly he captured the tender and subtlest nuances of personality and mood. Bouguereau caught the very souls and spirits of his subjects much like Rembrandt. Rembrandt is said to have captured the soul of age. Bouguereau captured the soul of youth."
- Damien Bartoli
This painting I first found in a tiny curio and bead shop in Sandpoint Idaho when I was fourteen, I bought it as a postcard and felt inextricably attracted to it. I didn't take note of the artist until I was in my twenties when I discovered that one of my recently favorite painters had also done this painting. That Bouguereau was responsible (indirectly) for allowing me to study french academic art makes the work even more respectable to me. Bouguereau is my favorite old master hands down, even overriding my previous fascination with Waterhouse.
http://la.gg/upl/youngpriestess.jpg
The following I relate to most of all, really kind of an unpopular painting and hard to find copies of but I love it and relate even more completely to it as I grow older. I'm pretty sure it's Waterhouse but not sure....
http://la.gg/upl/delphi.jpg
This is another one I found much later, though I didn't get a chance to view it for extended periods until I was about 17 - I always return to this one as an emblem of what sort of dangerous magick one can get into and to be careful not to use the power of the divine feminine carelessly, even if you can, you sometimes should not. It is my belief that the goddess is capable of crushing the entire universe at any moment if that was possible, incited to do so by the absolute itself as a tool of this terrible sort of apocalypse scenario - the universe becoming sick of itself - humans are always at least slightly aware of this and it emerges as all sorts of paranoia about women and god in general...
This is "The Beguiling of Merlin" by Sir Edward Burne-Jones
http://la.gg/upl/burne-jones-thebeguilingofm.jpg
Giger was also a huge influence on me. I didn't discover Giger until I was 16 down in Seattle in a poster shop somewhere in the University district. The internet wasn't very widespread then, and modems were funky so I only got glimpses of it here and there when I was out exploring, not like today where we have entire museums and catalogues at our fingertips.
http://la.gg/upl/Giger.gif
Anyways I get a lot of requests about who I am or how to understand me. I think if you get these four paintings you'll have a good idea of who I am...both positive and negative