Posted on 02/12/2018 3:08:49 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Bocca Baciata (Lips That Have Been Kissed) |1859 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti (English, 1828–1882)
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Posted on 02/01/2018 5:32:49 AM PST by C19fan
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Lips That Have Been Kissed is right -- Fanny Cornforth's other job was prostitute, if memory serves. Rossetti was out bangin' her when his pregnant wife died. He never really recovered from that, neither did his wife.
ML/NJ
While I find Pre-Raphaelite paintings to be tacky and gimmicky, the idea of removing them because of this to be beyond demented.
QUESTION TO YOU KNOWLEDGEABLE ART PEOPLE; Can anybody today paint in the manner of that ‘Lips that have been kissed’painting?
Dante Rosetti compared to crude idols and talismans constructed of sticks and twigs? No contest.
Just what the truth was is hard or impossible to say now.
Egg Tempera may achieve the same effect.
I’m not currently that polished, since I rarely draw or paint anymore . No studio, No Privacy.
It’s a beautiful, whimsical painting.
My only concern is the subject’s very thick neck.
That seems unlikely.
I’ve had situations where a work was being produced, and there was a clear error in proportion, but the style and vitality of the total composition flowed so well, I just didn’t worry about making that correction.
As one of my drawing teachers used to say “Sometimes, you gotta just keep driving, until you are done.”
Lovely. Thanks.
Maybe she had a “WIDE LOAD” sign below the neck?
On the 24th she’ll have been dead 109 years, but quite a lot is known about her. There’s nothing in the wikipedia about her having been a hooker, which is good. She was treated like crap late in life, died in a lunatic asylum.
From siren to asylum: the desperate last days of Fanny Cornforth, Rossetti’s muse
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/apr/13/discovered-lost-grave-pre-raphaelite-beauty-modelled-for-rossetti
She had a thick neck:
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZKqjskDoTEY/VtCGxkWdyYI/AAAAAAAARbg/D5UqAHqJlCg/s1600/sa223.wsfa.jpg
Fanny 3rd from left; 2nd from left is Rossetti, looking as usual like a member of the Addams Family:
Rossetti used three models a lot; Elizabeth Siddal, who was painted from memory after her death for his “Beata Beatrix”, and yes, he got better from a technical standpoint as his career progressed. Here’s one that is unmistakably based on Siddal, but also on Cornforth:
Beata Beatrix:
http://www.neuroticpoets.com/images/rossetti/beatrix.jpg
He did the same kind of conflation between Jane Burden / Jane Morris and Fanny at least a couple of times:
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xavzYoyfImI/VtCVH9nuDKI/AAAAAAAARd4/i6cGuvWtlDw/s1600/Lady-Lilith.jpg
Indeed she did have a thick neck.
Rosetti looks like Gomez from The Adams Family
his Concubine acted or posed like Morticia. Lots of melodrama going on there.
Odd Nerdrum, love his work.
sez here he can’t leave Norway, tax evasion case?
https://news.artnet.com/market/odd-nerdrum-solo-show-booth-gallery-479840
Rossetti always painted with great flattery. His sister Christina was, uh, not a looker, but was often drawn or painted to look pretty. The TV show “Cheers” (season 10, episode 7) portrayed the siblings — the Frasier and Lilith characters picked them for their Halloween costumes.
The Addams Family analogy isn’t far off reality — check out the web for a creepy story about what happened when Rossetti realized he didn’t have a complete set of the poems he’d performed at his late wife, Elizabeth Siddal’s, funeral service.
For some reason, the men in the PRB were wild about Jane; Rossetti had an intermittent affair with her, including after her marriage, for many years. He also used her preteen daughters as painter’s models.
http://www.google.com/search?q=jane+burden&btnG=Search&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&tbm=isch
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