2012/2/2
The Toilet of Venus--Peter Paul Rubens
The Fur--Peter Paul Rubens
擔任《軟皮服》這幅畫的模特兒是畫家的妻子海倫．富曼﹝HelenaFourment﹞。魯本斯創作這件作品之前 8 年，娶了比他小 37 歲的海倫，當時她只有 16 歲時。
由於她的豐滿身材、彷彿透明的肌膚和發亮的金髮，使這位老畫家感到很幸福，並從中獲得創作的原動力。但兩年之後，魯本斯就去世了，因此這段美好生活也就至此結束了。
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2012/1/30
The Sense of Touch--Peter Paul Rubens
Simon and Pero--Peter Paul Rubens
Title:Simon and Pero (Roman Charity) c. 1630
Painted by:Peter Paul Rubens
Location:Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Holland
Year:1630
Dimensions:74.80 inch wide x 61.02 inch high
Orientation:Landscape
Peace and War--Peter Paul Rubens
The Alliance of Earth and Water--Peter Paul Rubens
2011/12/12
The Education of Marie--Peter Paul Rubens
瑪莉的教育﹝The Education of Marie﹞
1622 ~ 1625 年
油彩‧畫布，394 x 295 公分
羅浮宮，巴黎﹝Paris﹞，法國
說明：
《瑪莉的教育》這幅畫的魅力，在於魯本斯對神祕和幻影能轉換成令人感動的視覺效果。為了凸顯女王瑪莉．麥第奇﹝Marie de Medici﹞ 正在學習的題材，魯本斯故意將畫面中幾個神話人物的比例，畫的比位於中央的女王要大得多，而藍紫色的背景則畫得有些模糊。
當我們仔細觀賞這幅畫作時，就彷彿置身於畫中一樣。人物的姿態包括最左邊的光明之神阿波羅﹝Apollo﹞、戴頭盔的正義之神雅典娜﹝Athena﹞和上方的商業之神赫姆斯﹝Hermes﹞均極其勻稱自然，使這幅畫平添了許多光彩並賦與豐富的內涵。祂們教導瑪莉關於音樂、閱讀與辯論的藝術。商業之神的形象，魯本斯乃取材於卡拉瓦喬《七善事》﹝The Seven Acts of Mercy﹞中的天使造型，他與紅色幃幔相連，而位於瑪莉身後的則是「優美」三女神﹝Three Graces﹞，她們提供美的意義。
Venus in Fur-Coat--Peter Paul Rubens
披著毛皮外衣的維納斯﹝Venus in Fur-Coat﹞
1636 ~ 1638 年
油彩‧畫板，176 x 83 公分
藝術史博物館，維也納﹝Vienna﹞，奧地利
說明：
擔任《披著毛皮外衣的維納斯》這幅畫的模特兒是畫家的妻子海倫．富曼﹝Helena Fourment﹞。魯本斯創作這件作品之前 8 年，娶了比他小 37 歲的海倫，當時她只有 16 歲時。
由於她的豐滿身材、彷彿透明的肌膚和發亮的金髮，使這位老畫家感到很幸福，並從中獲得創作的原動力。
但兩年之後，魯本斯就去世了，因此這段美好生活也就至此結束了。
The Judgement of Paris--Peter Paul Rubens
帕里斯的裁判﹝The Judgement of Paris﹞
1632 ~ 1635 年
油彩‧畫布，145 x 194 公分
國家畫廊，倫敦﹝London﹞，英國
說明：
魯本斯在晚年時期，用一種新的激情來看待提香的藝術創作，並對提香的作品進行了新的思考，這有助於他去改善色彩的運用方式，使它們更趨於流暢統一。在這幅畫中，人物和背景明快、溫馨，並被金黃色的氣氛所籠罩，給人非常柔和的感覺。
《帕里斯的裁判》這幅畫是魯本斯以近乎現實的寫實傾向來畫帕里斯的古代神話，他用自己的妻子海倫．富曼﹝Helena Fourment﹞作為美神維納斯﹝Venus﹞的模特兒，背景使用極為常見的風景。牧羊人帕里斯﹝Paris﹞旁邊靠著樹幹的是信使之神默丘利﹝Mercury﹞，帕里斯在三個女神之中評定維納斯為最美者，並且要送給她金蘋果作為獎賞。站在維納斯右邊的女神是天后朱諾﹝Juno﹞，左邊的是正義之神雅典娜﹝Athena﹞，復仇三女神﹝Fury﹞之一的阿勒克圖﹝Alecto﹞則露面於天空。
這幅畫整個景象具有速寫般的氣勢及輕快之慼，並完全包圍在午後溫暖的光線之中，由於它的華麗與調和，故這件作品表示畫家在色彩、韻律與結構方面已經完全消化了巴洛克樣式的技巧。
The Three Graces--Peter Paul Rubens
優美三女神﹝The Three Graces﹞
1639 年
油彩‧畫布，221 x 181 公分
普拉多美術館，馬德里﹝Madrid﹞，西班牙
說明：
《優美三女神》這幅神話畫通常被視為是盧本斯的晚年之作，他為著使色調與筆觸產生流暢的效果，曾把樹脂混入油中。畫在林間的3個裸女，右端第一人係以盧本斯的第二任妻子海倫．富曼﹝Helena Fourment﹞為模特兒。對於學習古典美術及義大利繪畫的盧本斯而言，古代模本乃是刺激他不斷作畫的靈感來源，但是創作的主要目的還是在於讚美充滿生命力的肉體，因此他對人體的處理更著重於身體的解剖、色彩的渲染和形式的表達。
Marie Arriving at Marseilles--Peter Paul Rubens
瑪莉抵達馬賽
﹝Marie Arriving at Marseilles﹞
1623 ~ 1625 年
油彩‧畫布，394 x 295 公分
羅浮宮，巴黎﹝Paris﹞，法國
說明：
《瑪莉抵達馬賽》的構圖分為上下兩個層面，它們把上層的寫實和下層的寓意、神話自由地融和到一起。畫中十分寫實的女王瑪莉．麥第奇﹝Marie de Medici﹞正從佛羅倫斯的豪華船上走下，陪伴她的是一群宮廷貴婦。一個披著飾有白色百合的披風正在迎接女王的人物是代表著法國和馬賽的擬人化人物，他那趨身向前的姿勢展示出歡迎與敬意，與瑪莉直聳著背脊的冷淡態度形成對比。
在波浪中，向她歡呼的有保護她航行的海神波西頓﹝Poseidon﹞和水女神。海神長著一頭灰色的頭髮，以手臂將觀賞者的視線引導向瑪莉。在這幅歌頌王妃的作品裡，魯本斯在畫中安插古希臘神衹，是在暗示女王的地位是有如神明一般崇高。至於水女神則在波濤間扭動著豐滿的身軀，她們拉著繫纜準備讓載著瑪莉的船停下來。這些水女神誇張地扭曲著的身體，與上方正進行嚴肅儀式的人們形成戲劇性的對比。
這幅畫的畫面十分豪華，女性形象有如男性般的健壯，色彩光亮且醒目，這些特色使它成為魯本斯藝術中最著名的片段之一。
2011/11/19
DIY Old Masters that put YOU in the picture
Have you ever wanted to be The Girl With The Pearl Earring?
Well thanks to a Canadian artist, many people were able to follow in Scarlett Johansson's footsteps and remake the classic painting by 17th Century Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer.
Jeff Hamada, an artist from Vancouver, has been running a competition named Remake on his website 'Booooooom'.
Likeness: A woman, left, recreates Johannes Vermeer's classic the Girl With A Pearl Earring. It is an entry into Jeff Hamada's competition which allows classic paintings to be recreating by people
Similar: On the left is a new take of Portrait Of A Man by Jan van Eyck, right
It allows classic paintings to be skillfully created by every day people.
Each recreation is a real life re-staging of a scene captured in paint - but often with a modern twist involved to reflect the changing world.
Mr Hamada said: 'The idea of the project is to remake a famous work of art using photography.
'I thought I would run a competition to see what the public could come up with.
New and old: A girl has entered artist Jeff Hamada's competition by creating a modern remake of the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci
Disturbing: Edvard Munch's classic The Scream, right, is given a new look in this image on the left
'Now I don't have £10,000 to put up as prize money but I was able to get a copy of the entire Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Master Collection for the winner.'
Entrants were asked to re-stage a famous painting and submit their work to his website - with the winner gaining a prize.
In one amazing recreation, The Whistler's Mother is a stunning replica of the original artwork by James McNeill Whistler.
Another incredible creation showed a Van Gogh lookalike in matching green blazer and buttoned up shirt, with slicked back ginger hair - perfectly mimicking the famous artist.
Fresh look: A woman, left, gives an interesting take on Portrait of the Journalist by Otto Dix featuring Sylvia von Harden
Almost identical: The Whistler's Mother by James McNeill Whistler, right, is remade on the left
2011/10/26
The Angelus(L'Angélus)--Millet, Jean-Francois
Artist: Jean-Francois Millet classicalpainting.org
Start Date: 1857
创作完成: 1859
Style: Realism
风格: 风格 painting
Technique: oil
Material: canvas classicalpainting.org
Dimensions: 55.5 x 66 cm classicalpainting.org
Gallery: Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
Tags: arts-and-crafts
Millet had originally created this work for an American, Thomas Gold Appleton, who failed to take possession of the piece. Millet later changed the painting to include a steeple in the background and change the name from Prayer for the Potato Crop to The Angelus. The painting changed hands many times, ending with a bidding war between France and America. The painting has also been a source of speculation, due to Salvador Dali’s insistence that the figures are actually praying over their deceased child. Dali was so insistent that the painting was eventually x-rayed, revealing a shape that looked like a small coffin, indicating that Dali may have been right, and that Millet may have originally created the painting with the couple mourning over their small child’s coffin. classicalpainting.org
The Gleaners--Millet, Jean-Francois
Artist: Jean-Francois Millet
创作完成: 1857
Style: Realism
风格: 风格 painting classicalpainting.org
Technique: oil shijieminghua.com
Material: canvas
Dimensions: 84 x 111 cm
Gallery: Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
Tags: arts-and-crafts
By far the most recognizable of Millet’s works, The Gleaners depicts a trio of women gleaning the last bits of wheat from a field. Millet found the theme of women gleaning the last bits of wheat an eternal one, linked to stories of the Old Testament. The painting was received by the public with open scorn. It presented what at the time were the lowest ranks of society, taking advantage of the age-old right to remove the last bits of grain left over from wheat harvest, in a sympathetic light. During his lifetime, this painting garnered naught but notoriety from a French upper-class that feared glorifying the lower ranks of society, and it was not until after the artist’s death that it became more popular.
Jean-François Millet French Painter
米勒1814年出生,1837年成為保爾.德拉羅徹的學生。他一度模似18世紀法國田園詩式的作品。后來他轉向農民題材和作品，并在1848年一舉成名。在接下去的幾年里，他在巴比松一帶非常活躍，并與這一派有很多聯系。他的作品深受十七世紀荷蘭畫家的影響，尤其是夏爾丹的作品的影響，但反過來，他也影響著荷蘭畫家影響著凡高的早期作品。他于 1875年去世
By Summer Seas--Herbert Draper
英國維多利亞時代的宮廷畫家Herbert James Draper黑爾伯特.詹姆斯.德拉波(1863-1920)以繪畫海上女妖（ sirens）、人魚（mermaids）的等相關系列畫作聞名。
德拉波Born in London.出生于倫敦。曾就讀于曾聖約翰伍德藝術學校，並于1884年進入Royal Academy學習。經過幾年在西班牙，摩洛哥，意大利，法國，荷蘭和比利時的游歷後，回國在肯辛頓成立了一個畫室。他1894年在Royal Academy展出了他的‘The Sea Maiden’獲得了第一次公開的成功，並成為當時非常受歡迎的畫家。萊斯特畫廊1913年舉辦了德拉波的回顧展覽。 德拉波于1920年9月22日逝世于倫敦。
Herbert James Draper (1864-1920)
Herbert James Draper.
Herbert James Draper was a late follower of the Pre-Raphaelites and the Classicists whose paintings are often similar to those of John William Waterhouse, featuring beautiful innocent-looking girls with long dark hair. His work also shows the influence of Lord Leighton and Burne-Jones.
He was born in London and studied science before turning to art, first at St John's Wood School, and then at the RA Schools (from 1884), where he won a prize for decoration of a public building with a scheme which was later carried out at Guys Hospital, London. In 1889 he won a Royal Academy travelling scholarship, and went to Spain, Italy, France, Holland and Belgium. He actually decided to live abroad to paint in the beautiful light of Italy, but wrote to Lord Leighton first to ask his advice. Leighton - no stranger to travel - advised him that there was no light for painting like the light of an English summer, and this was enough to persuade the younger man to abandon the life on the Continent.
Draper married a Miss Ida Williams, and they had one daughter. From 1896 they lived in Abbey Road, St John's Wood, London, neighbours of John William Waterhouse.
Draper exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1887, and continued to show pictures there for the rest of his life. He specialised in nymphs, beautiful and nude, typically in a nautical setting, but was also a portrait painter and occasionally produced rather unworthy sentimental pictures of children.
Draper's paintings have a charm and appeal and often light-heartedness that makes them in some ways more easily acceptable to modern taste than some of the more heavy-going, serious subjects of his competitors. However, he took great pains over the background for his pictures. For example, writing about his picture The Sea Maiden (1894), an illustration of a poem by Swinburne showing sailors hauling in their nets and discovering a sea-girl therein, Draper wrote:
"I took the usual pains in gathering my studies, spending hours in a boat with a fishing net floating in the water over a couple of spars. I made my studies at sea off Devon and the Scillies (the latter the more useful) and I spent some time on a Devon trawler to see the nets hauled with the fish - a roughish sort of experience, as they go for 48 hours at a stretch. My barbaric or archaic boat I was, of course, unable to get, so I modelled it in wax and coloured it, and then studied it out of doors."
The Sea Maiden was the painting that established Draper's reputation. His best-known paintings are The Lament for Icarus, now in the Tate Gallery, and The Sirens, now in Hull, which is one of the best paintings in the 'femmes fatales' idiom, showing the sirens as young maidens actually climbing into the ship with Odysseus. The scene 5 minutes before, with the sirens still in the water, is in Leeds. In the Manchester art gallery is A Water Baby, with a vaguely aquatic nymph discovering a baby in a huge shell, and Calypso's Isle. A study for The Lament for Icarus and The Kelpie are at the Lady Lever Gallery. The Golden Fleece is in the Bradford Art Gallery, and The Sea Maiden is in the Royal Truro Museum, Cornwall.
Draper also did some book illustration - in particular, sketches for ice-skating in the English Illustrated Magazine in 1893, and drawings to accompany poetry in art magazines.
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