Paintings you like

[Sir Darius the Clairvoyent]

5 minutes ago, 心神 ~ said:

 

 

Mother of the World / Матерь Мира (Mater' Mira) by Nicholas Roerich (1924)

 

Truly amazing. Can you tell more about it?

[Sir Darius the Clairvoyent]

Can anyone help me identifisert this piece? I had it in my library, but cant recall where it is from.

[心神 ~]

 

I honestly don't know much about it from the artist's perspective. I read that he was a philosopher and theosophist deeply influenced by Russian symbolism, which emphasizes the spiritual through art. He's said to be well known in Russia for his efforts in art preservation.

 

He credited much of his work and inspiration to his wife, saying, "Together we created, and not without reason is it said that the work should bear two names - a masculine and feminine."

 

I found this interpretation of the painting online:

 

"Mother of the World is one of his [Roerich's] most optimistic pictures, because her very meaning implies the end of the Dark Era and the beginning of the Light.

 

On the throne from the mountains sits the Great Mother, which is that single feminine principle, which was called differently in different religions, but never forgetting. The Empress is the lasso of Tarot, symbolizing the mother. Virgin Mary is the Christian reflection of the mother.

 

Many pagan, ancient religions revered not a single creator, but a single goddess, who at the dawn of time gave birth to the world. It is this ancient archetype of the mother who gives, protects and embodies the Great Mother. Her face is hidden under the hood, but the lower part, visible to the viewer, impassive and similar in color to bronze, is lit up, which indicates the imminent onset of a happy, bright age and the upcoming discovery of knowledge.

 

The tunic of her free waves falls down, symbolizing order and harmony in everything that surrounds Mother. Behind her, in heaven, the Seven Elders and Three Mages are constellations, and between them rises in radiance and glory, just above Mother’s head, the morning star, which also portends joy for all.

 

Around the mountains serving the Mother as the throne, a river flows, symbolizing the endless river of life, nourishing itself. The fish swimming in it are people, their fates, seeking themselves in an endless stream."

 

Edited October 14, 2024 by 心神 ~

[心神 ~]

11 minutes ago, NaturaNaturans said:

 

Can anyone help me identifisert this piece? I had it in my library, but cant recall where it is from.

 

Aprile (Francesco del Cossa)

 

[Sir Darius the Clairvoyent]

1 minute ago, 心神 ~ said:

 

Aprile (Francesco del Cossa)

 

Much love 

[心神 ~]

 

Like Mist by Lin Sun

 

 

Edited October 14, 2024 by 心神 ~

[Sir Darius the Clairvoyent]

26 minutes ago, 心神 ~ said:

 

I honestly don't know much about it from the artist's perspective. I read that he was a philosopher and theosophist deeply influenced by Russian symbolism, which emphasizes the spiritual through art. He's said to be well known in Russia for his efforts in art preservation.

 

He credited much of his work and inspiration to his wife, saying, "Together we created, and not without reason is it said that the work should bear two names - a masculine and feminine."

 

I found this interpretation of the painting online:

 

"Mother of the World is one of his [Roerich's] most optimistic pictures, because her very meaning implies the end of the Dark Era and the beginning of the Light.

 

On the throne from the mountains sits the Great Mother, which is that single feminine principle, which was called differently in different religions, but never forgetting. The Empress is the lasso of Tarot, symbolizing the mother. Virgin Mary is the Christian reflection of the mother.

 

Many pagan, ancient religions revered not a single creator, but a single goddess, who at the dawn of time gave birth to the world. It is this ancient archetype of the mother who gives, protects and embodies the Great Mother. Her face is hidden under the hood, but the lower part, visible to the viewer, impassive and similar in color to bronze, is lit up, which indicates the imminent onset of a happy, bright age and the upcoming discovery of knowledge.

 

The tunic of her free waves falls down, symbolizing order and harmony in everything that surrounds Mother. Behind her, in heaven, the Seven Elders and Three Mages are constellations, and between them rises in radiance and glory, just above Mother’s head, the morning star, which also portends joy for all.

 

Around the mountains serving the Mother as the throne, a river flows, symbolizing the endless river of life, nourishing itself. The fish swimming in it are people, their fates, seeking themselves in an endless stream."

 

Well, thats my New background pic for my phone for sure. Breathtaking and great story 

[心神 ~]

 

The Passage by Aphra Natley (2022)

 

[心神 ~]

 

Gazing at the Roundness of the Moon by Tomás Sánchez (1994)

 

[心神 ~]

 

Expansion by Tuco Amalfi (2022)

 

[blue eyed snake]

12 hours ago, 心神 ~ said:

 

 

Mother of the World / Матерь Мира (Mater' Mira) by Nicholas Roerich (1924)

 

 

thank you

[moment]

Shiro Tsujimura

b. 1947

[Gerard]

 

The Fortune Teller (Enrique Simonet, 1899). Realism & Impressionism movements. 
 

Edited December 24, 2024 by Gerard

[Sir Darius the Clairvoyent]

[Sir Darius the Clairvoyent]

On 15.10.2024 at 1:15 AM, 心神 ~ said:

 

(I dont know how to @ the chinese characters, but your taste in art is... well, I love it. Do you make art? Particulary interrested in it? A lot in your home etc. etc.

[心神 ~]

On 12/24/2024 at 6:40 AM, Sir Darius the Clairvoyent said:

 

 

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Edited May 16 by 心神 ~

[Lois]

[Taomeow]

Vladimir Borovikovsky, Portrait of Maria Lopukhina, 1797

 

Maiden name Tolstoy.  She was an aunt of Leo Tolstoy's, but she died before he was born, at the age of 23.  One of her many siblings was known to the aristocratic society as Tolstoy the American, due to the fact that he participated in a famous circumnavigation expedition of Admiral Krusenstern in the early 19th century and behaved in such an unruly fashion that the admiral left him on the Pacific shore of Kamchatka, whence the young hooligan made it to America.  He returned to St. Petersburg a few years later sporting Native American tattoos and dances-with-wolves-like stories.

 

I like finding out stuff about old portraits and realistic paintings -- all of a sudden Time itself unfolds its endless scrolls, its endless stories.  Earlier in the thread I posted a picture of Cardinal Richelieu and his cats.  There was no mention in The Three Musketeers of the fact that Richelieu, the villain of that story, was famous for his love of cats...  If there was, I'm sure some of the sympathies of the readers would have been with the cardinal, not with the musketeers who, now that I think about it, behaved like entitled brats throughout the novel.    

 

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Amazon wall scroll art.

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Art by WLOP

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AI generated art

[心神 ~]

@Taomeow Here are a few of my favorite, somewhat less modern portraits:

 

 

Anna Nordgren, Rest

 

 

Bertha Wegmann, Lady Reading at a Tea Table (Hanna Lucia Bauck) (1899)

 

 

Edith Hayllar, The Morning Call (1881)

 

 

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, The Duenna (1901)

 

 

Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema, World of Dreams (1876)

 

 

Lilla Cabot Perry, Reading

 

 

Lilla Cabot Perry, The Blue Kimono (1915)

 

 

Lilla Cabot Perry, Lady With Bowl of Violets (1910)

 

Marie Bashkirtseff, Spring (1884)*

 

Edited June 1 by 心神 ~

[Taomeow]

@心神 Thank you!  These are wonderful. 

I'm often tempted to go beyond just the visual impression and try to imagine a story -- of the moment, of a life...  What was it like to be that person in that time?..

 

Interesting how "madonna-like" paintings by women differ from the male (religious) renditions of the image of the mother and baby.  (Somehow ALL of the latter get the proportions of the "baby Jesus" all wrong -- either he appears macrocephalic or morbidly obese or has a facial expression of -- I don't know what, bitter resentment?  refusal to interact, to have any baby-like expression?..  Yes, even in the celebrated masterpieces the baby is always off somehow  )     

 

The Duenna looks a lot like my late mother-in-law in her old age.  Uncanny resemblance.  One comes across those "twins lost in time" occasionally and has to wonder -- is this actually a relative?.. a reincarnation?..  

 

Marie Bashkirtseff's painting is Spring, google tells me it's the spring of 1884.  

 

  

[心神 ~]

Yes, I kind of relate to that. I really like paintings that feature the back of a person, a sort of anti-portrait. Anna Archer has quite of few paintings like that, as does Tomás Sánchez, who I've posted before.

 

Anna Archer, Girl in the Kitchen (1883)

 

There's something intimate about seeing a person from behind lost in thought or in chore, like when you're a child walking around the house. It's also very dream-like. I always wonder what the painted subject is reflecting on in that moment. Future dreams, losses, daily tediums, etc.

 

I tend to prefer paintings of children and women as painted by women, but even then many are imitating a male style that is performative and unnatural.

 

I do love paintings of older women, especially smirking or laughing old women. In Edith Hayllar's The Morning Call (1881) in the previous post, I love how excited the woman looks, all packed up and ready to go out, sipping something that adds to the merriment. Where is she going? Who does she plan to see? I hope she had a lovely time.

 

Anna Archer, Three Old Seamstresses (1920)

 

Thank you for the painting name! Here are a few more I think you might appreciate. Didn't intend for this to be a celebrating Anna Archer post, but here we are:

 

Anna Archer, A Blind Woman in Her Room (1883)

 

Anna Archer, Grief (1902)

 

 

Different artist, but a fascinating painting with complex imagery and intrigue. As a bonus, there's a kitten:

 

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, The Deceitfulness of Riches (1901)

 

Edited June 1 by 心神 ~