Friday, April 18, 2014
Portraits of Women by British Artist Stanley Spencer 1891-1959
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Daphne Charlton
Although Stanley Spencer's portraits are brutally realistic & stripped of allegorical references, he wrote, "Every thing or person other than myself is a future potential part of myself, or a revealer of and an agent in revealing unknown parts of myself: unknown husbands, wives, lovers, worshippers, never before seen and only known by a persistent desire or passionate longing, supported by a kind of consciousness of their existence." Stanley Spencer, out of Sermons by Artists (1934)
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Daphne by the Window in Northern Ireland
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Hilda, Unity, and Dolls The artist's wife.
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Miss Elizabeth Wimperis
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Lady Slesser
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Mrs Frank
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Country Girl Elise
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Daphne Spencer
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Hilda Carline
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Daphne Charlton
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Hilda Carline
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Miss Ashwanden
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Patricia Preece, 1933
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Mrs C P Grant
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Mrs Marjorie Metz
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Rachel Westropp
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Mrs Linda Few Brown
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) The Sisters
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Portrait in a Garden
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) The Psychiatrist
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Anny Lewinter Frankl
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Portrait of a Young Woman
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891-1959) Mr and Mrs Baggett 1956
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891-1959) Patricia at Cockmarsh Hill 1935
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Beatitudes of Love from the 1930s from Stanley Spencer 1891-1959
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Contemplation 1938
In his Beatitudes series, Spencer brings together countless aspects of life, including love, sexuality, religion, reality, and fantasy. Of these paintings, Spencer wrote, "I love them from within outwards and whatever that outward appearance may be it is an exquisite reminder of what is loved within, no matter what that exterior appearance may be." Spencer explained in the 1930s, "There are two joys, the joys of innocence and religiousness and the joys of change and sexual experience and while these two selves seem unrelated and irreconcilable, still I am convinced of their ultimate union."
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Consciousness
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Passion or Desire
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Romantic Meeting
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Worship
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Knowing
Monday, April 14, 2014
Our Swans & Stanley Spencer 1891-1959
Stanley Spencer (English artist, 1891-1959) Swan Upping at Cookham c 1915-19
Nearly daily for the past 10 years, we have driven by a farm pond which was home to a pair of beautiful white swans & their offspring. Last summer, the swans disappeared, and the farm house, barn, & all outbuildings were razed. Now no swans, no offspring this year as we drive by. Heartbreaking. Here are a few of Spencer's more spiritual swans...
Stanley Spencer (English artist, 1891-1959) Separating Fighting Swans c 1933
Saturday, April 12, 2014
Hero worship by Stanley Spencer 1891-1959
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Adoration of Old Men
There are still a few truly amazing heros to be found...
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Woman Getting Ready to Meet the Day by Ramon Casas i Carbo (Spanish painter, 1866-1932)
It is rainy and dark. These kinds of days are slow getting started. This feeling is elegantly captured by 19th-century Spanish painter Ramon Casas i Carbo in this series.
Ramon Casas i Carbo (Spanish painter, 1866-1932)
Ramon Casas i Carbo (Spanish painter, 1866-1932)
Ramon Casas i Carbo (Spanish painter, 1866-1932)
Ramon Casas i Carbo (Spanish painter, 1866-1932)
Ramon Casas i Carbo (Spanish painter, 1866-1932)
Ramon Casas i Carbo (Spanish painter, 1866-1932) Interior
Ramon Casas i Carbo (Spanish painter, 1866-1932)
These simple, elegant paintings are not typical of the work of Ramon Casas i Carbó (1866-1932). He was a Catalan artist. During a turbulent time in his native Barcelona, he was a leading portraitist, painting the intellectual, economic, & political elite of Barcelona, Paris, Madrid, & beyond. He was also known for painting less elitist crowd scenes ranging from the audience at a bullfight to an assembly for an execution to a group of rioters in the Barcelona streets. Also a graphic designer, his posters & postcards helped to define the Catalan art movement known as modernisme. By the 1920s, Casas had fallen far away from the avant-gardiste tendencies of his youth. His work from this later period looks like it came from an academic painter of an earlier time than his work of the 1890s.
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Friday, April 4, 2014
The Radiant Portraits of Peder Severin Krøyer (Norwegian-born Danish artist, 1851-1909)
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Peder Severin Krøyer (1851-1909), known as P.S. Krøyer, was a Norwegian-Danish painter. He is one of the best known of the Skagen Painters, a community of Danish & Nordic artists who worked in Skagen, Denmark, especially during the late 1800s. On a trip to Paris in 1888, he ran into Marie Martha Mathilde Triepcke, whom he had known in Copenhagen. They married in 1889, at her parents' home in Germany. Marie Krøyer, also a painter, became associated with the Skagen community, & was often featured in Krøyer's paintings. The couple had 1 child, a daughter named Vibeke, born in January, 1895, but divorced in 1905.
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