Redon was a card. The pastels disturb me (possibly in a good way, possibly not), but the charcoals are hard to argue with. He was practically unknown until Huysmans offered his support.
Félicien Rops, Carrière and Carlos Schwabe are enough to let the sunlight go to waste.
I'm not looking for or posting images; you can do that yourselves, can't you?
I just saw a great exhibition of René Magritte's work, at the Magritte Museum in Brussels. I also managed to resist the temptation that is the museum shop, and bought nothing but a few postcards and a pen.
Redon was a card. The pastels disturb me (possibly in a good way, possibly not), but the charcoals are hard to argue with. He was practically unknown until Huysmans offered his support.
I changed my sig today. I'd been thinking about it for a few days and wanted something that would be appropriate for all my Frink-thread posts, reflective of my feelings about Morrissey as photographic-subject, as well as being expressive of my personal interests. Today at work I was flipping though a book on the Pre-Raphaelite painter Frederic Lord Leighton (I love the drama of the Pre-Raphaelites) and came across this painting of Orpheus (singer of songs so sad the gods wept) and Eurydice:
Robert Browning was deeply inspired by the work of Lord Leighton and wrote the following poem to accompany the artwork:
But give them me - the mouth, the eyes, the brow!
Let them once more absorb me! One look now
Will lap me round for ever, not to pass
Out of its light, though darkness lie beyond:
Hold me but safe again within the bond
Of one immortal look! All woe that was,
Forgotten, and all the terror that may be,
Defied, - no past is mine, no future: look at me!
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