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For those of you who like BIG projects, HAED has their patterns on sale
for Easter at 25% off. http://www.heavenandearthdesigns.com/ -- Karen C - California Editor/Proofreader www.IntlProofingConsortium.com Finished 3/16/08 - Isabella's Garden WIP: Stitcher's Blessing, MLI The Teacher (gift to the library), Bethany Angel, Flowers of Hawaii (Jeanette Crews) for ME!!! Retrieved from UFO pile: Marbek's Snow Angel CFSfacts -- where we give you the facts and dispel the myths Myths, with research cites: http://www.aacfs.org/images/pdfs/myths.pdf Newest research blog: http://journals.aol.com/kmc528/Lifeasweknowit/ |
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Karen C in California wrote:
For those of you who like BIG projects, HAED has their patterns on sale for Easter at 25% off. http://www.heavenandearthdesigns.com/ Is it my imagination or is 'Helen of Troy' one of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's works? Unless my memory is failing me, I think she's meant to be blonde rather than gingery haired. Has anyone ever noticed that all his paintings seem to be of the same (rather horsefaced) lady? Makes me think he had a hankering for some remote and unattainable lady who looked down the full length of her snout at him and told him to nick off! LOL! While all the pre-Raphaelite painters are amazing, I always find myself coming back to the poster artist, Alphonse Maria Mucha. His ladies have life and fire and *different faces* which look lived-in and written upon by life. Do a google on Edmund Blair Leighton and John W. Waterhouse as well. It's easy to get lost, just browsing through the lovely pictures! My friend has a jigsaw, six feet by five feet, of Mucha's 'Seasons' framed on her wall. It's just gorgeous! DH gave me smaller one (4000 pieces) of the 'Jewels' series. Also gorgeous. I've seen a number of people have converted some of Mucha's works into XS patterns (including Graeme Ross), but I've never ever seen one that has enough detail to do the painting justice: they're always fuzzy, with the backgrounds converted into a muddy mess. IMHO. -- Trish {|:-} Newcastle, NSW, Australia |
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"Trish Brown" wrote Has anyone ever noticed that all his paintings seem to be of the same (rather horsefaced) lady? Makes me think he had a hankering for some remote and unattainable lady who looked down the full length of her snout at him and told him to nick off! LOL! He married the first model he was obsessed with, Lizzie Siddal; she was a rather severe looking woman with thick reddish hair. When she died, he buried some of his unpublished poetry with her---and later dug her up so he could retrieve (and publish) it. He has very involved with some of his subsequent models, one of whom was married to William Morris, the noted designer. So many of his women do tend to look alike. I don't think many of them told him to buzz off--likely better for them if they had. Dawne |
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On Mar 22, 5:05*am, "Dawne Peterson" wrote:
"Trish Brown" wrote Has anyone ever noticed that all his paintings seem to be of the same (rather horsefaced) lady? Makes me think he had a hankering for some remote and unattainable lady who looked down the full length of her snout at him and told him to nick off! LOL! *He married the first model he was obsessed with, Lizzie Siddal; she was a rather severe looking woman with thick reddish hair. *When she died, he buried some of his unpublished poetry with her---and later dug her up so he could retrieve (and publish) it. He has very involved with some of his subsequent models, one of whom was married to William Morris, the noted designer. So many of his women do tend to look alike. I don't think many of them told him to buzz off--likely better for them if they had. Dawne Thank you Dawne , for this nice historical facts. When people make statememts about Artists and their models and assume that the paintings do include certain faces because this or that possibility. It would be adviseable to remember that other periods had other sets of social behaviours. mirjam |
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On Mar 21, 4:08*pm, Karen C in California wrote:
For those of you who like BIG projects, HAED has their patterns on sale for Easter at 25% off. http://www.heavenandearthdesigns.com/ -- Karen C - California Editor/Proofreaderwww.IntlProofingConsortium.com Finished 3/16/08 - Isabella's Garden WIP: Stitcher's Blessing, MLI The Teacher (gift to the library), Bethany Angel, Flowers of Hawaii (Jeanette Crews) for ME!!! Retrieved from UFO pile: Marbek's Snow Angel CFSfacts -- where we give you the facts and dispel the myths Myths, with research cites:http://www.aacfs.org/images/pdfs/myths.pdf Newest research blog:http://journals.aol.com/kmc528/Lifeasweknowit/ Thanks for the head's up! I'm a sucker for reproductions of classic paintings, and their prices are very reasonable as compared to other sites offering reproductions that I've found. I tried to have some restraint and limited myself to purchasing just one chart. However, I got a "corrupted file" message when I went to download my purchase and lost my chart! I emailed them, so here's hoping they either can provide me the chart some other way or will refund my money. :-( What a downer, Jinx |
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On Mar 21, 11:01*pm, Jinx the Minx wrote:
On Mar 21, 4:08*pm, Karen C in California wrote: For those of you who like BIG projects, HAED has their patterns on sale for Easter at 25% off. http://www.heavenandearthdesigns.com/ -- Karen C - California Editor/Proofreaderwww.IntlProofingConsortium.com Finished 3/16/08 - Isabella's Garden WIP: Stitcher's Blessing, MLI The Teacher (gift to the library), Bethany Angel, Flowers of Hawaii (Jeanette Crews) for ME!!! Retrieved from UFO pile: Marbek's Snow Angel CFSfacts -- where we give you the facts and dispel the myths Myths, with research cites:http://www.aacfs.org/images/pdfs/myths.pdf Newest research blog:http://journals.aol.com/kmc528/Lifeasweknowit/ Thanks for the head's up! *I'm a sucker for reproductions of classic paintings, and their prices are very reasonable as compared to other sites offering reproductions that I've found. *I tried to have some restraint and limited myself to purchasing just one chart. *However, I got a "corrupted file" message when I went to download my purchase and lost my chart! *I emailed them, so here's hoping they either can provide me the chart some other way or will refund my money. :-( What a downer, Jinx- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I know it's bad form to reply to my own message, but I wanted to let everyone know they emailed me my pattern within two hours of contacting them. That's commendable customer service!! Jinx |
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Thank you Dawne , for this nice historical facts. When people make statememts about Artists and their models and assume that the paintings do include certain faces because this or that possibility. It would be adviseable to remember that other periods had other sets of social behaviours. Trish saw something that often leads to very interesting inquiries. Some artists put the usual suspects in various paintings for different reasons---sometimes they are convenient, like family members, sometimes they are patrons, sometimes they are friends, mistresses, or mistresses of patrons.....really interesting to get into some of the stories. Dawne |
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Dawne Peterson wrote:
Thank you Dawne , for this nice historical facts. When people make statememts about Artists and their models and assume that the paintings do include certain faces because this or that possibility. It would be adviseable to remember that other periods had other sets of social behaviours. Trish saw something that often leads to very interesting inquiries. Some artists put the usual suspects in various paintings for different reasons---sometimes they are convenient, like family members, sometimes they are patrons, sometimes they are friends, mistresses, or mistresses of patrons.....really interesting to get into some of the stories. Dawne Dawne, I googled Lizzie Siddal and she *does* have a horse-face, just like all his paintings! Amazing! And now I need to know why you were able to pull up this fascinating fact seemingly out of thin air? Are you a Victorian art tragic like me? Another fascinating similarity I notice in these paintings is the plethora of red-headed women. I wonder whether red hair was more common back then or simply more desirable and hence the widespread use of henna? My DD's hair is violently flame-coloured and she cops heaps from the kids at school, who call her 'Ranga' ('orangutan') because of it. Red hair is *not* the fashion at DD's school, although the pre-Raphaelites seemed to think it was pretty cool. Also, have you noticed the thick, bushy texture of the ladies' hair in the paintings? I wonder how they achieved that in the absence of perming solution and Products? Tight plaiting, I s'pose. I've just cut my own bushy hairdo off at the elbows and am enjoying the honeymoon period of just shaking it dry and off I go. LOL! Wish I had one of those useful Victorian maids to maintain The Do for me! -- Trish {|:-} Newcastle, NSW, Australia |
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On Mar 22, 8:51*am, "Dawne Peterson" wrote:
Thank you Dawne , for this nice historical facts. When people make statememts about Artists and their models and assume that the paintings do include certain faces because this or that possibility. It would be adviseable to remember that other periods had other sets of social behaviours. Trish saw something that often leads to very interesting inquiries. *Some artists put the usual suspects in various paintings for different reasons---sometimes they are convenient, like family members, sometimes they are patrons, sometimes they are friends, mistresses, or mistresses of patrons.....really interesting to get into some of the stories. Dawne It is facinating to read about the lives of many artists, and learn who and why and in which context they used various faces. This is one of the reasons, that museums and art reseracherers are kin on having artists copybooks etc. And of couse Contemporary artists are much more aware that their `work books` might be used for such purposes. From the artists who `used` their fanily in their art work , i am very fond on Carl & Karin Larsson. Rik Wouters. and there are many more. mirjam |
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